Associate Professor, Founding SOT Director
School/College: Occupational Therapy
Email: hfritz@pnwu.edu
Fields:
- Health behavior
- Occupational therapy/science
- Gerontology
Areas of Expertise:
- Chronic condition prevention and management
- Occupational science (theory, habits, action, and environment re daily activities)
- Population health and health disparities
Methodological Expertise:
- Intervention design
- Qualitative data collection and analysis
- Mixed methods designs
- Scoping review methodology
Current Projects:
- Outcomes of occupational therapy services in behavioral health residential program (Yakima Co DHS)
- Chronic condition self-management for older African-Americans and physician understanding/empathy (NIH)
- Older urban African-Americans, stress, and CVD risk (NIH)
- Frailty prevention in older adults
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