Intersectional Identities and Worker Experiences in Home Health Care: The...
As the population ages in the United States and globally, health-care demands are rising and varied, including the growth of home health care. Small, regional, qualitative studies indicate both...
View ArticleCountervailing Influences of Black and Women Legislators on State Age...
We examine the influences of African-American and female legislators on the supportiveness of states toward elders. Previous research shows complementary supportiveness among women and minority...
View ArticleClose-Calls that Older Homebound Women Handled without Help While Alone at Home
Although competence to live alone is typically associated with measures of activities of daily living, such measures fail to capture problematic situations that older people face in daily life. In...
View Article“More than Boobs and Ovaries”: BRCA Positive Young Women and the Negotiation...
The discovery of the BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes has facilitated the construction of a new group of women referred to as “previvors” – individuals who are survivors of a predisposition to cancer but who are...
View ArticleGendering Affective Disorders in Direct-to-Consumer Advertisements
This chapter explores how direct-to-consumer advertisements (DTCA) for major depression and anxiety disorders use contemporary gender scripts to sell medications and disease definitions to consumers,...
View ArticleRacial Residential Segregation and Access to Health-Care Coverage: A...
A developing body of research has demonstrated the impact of racial residential segregation on a variety of negative health outcomes. However, little is known about the effect of residential...
View ArticleEthnicity and the use of “Accepted” and “Rejected” Complementary/Alternative...
Research is needed that uses large enough samples to facilitate disaggregation of users by specific types of complementary/alternative medical (CAM) practices and by ethnicity in order to examine...
View ArticleTwo Sides of the Potomac: A Qualitative Exploration of Immigrant Families’...
In this chapter we examine how micro- and macro-level issues including access to child-only or family public health insurance shape low-income immigrant families’ health care experiences in two policy...
View ArticleViews of Japanese Immigrant Women about Care as they Age
Scholars have explained how people in Japan feel ashamed when elderly members of the family are cared for by formal services such as day care or government/commercial-based nursing homes due to the...
View ArticleDelayed Diagnosis of Tuberculosis in the U.S.-Mexico Border Region: A Health...
Purpose – One-third of the world's population is infected with tuberculosis (TB) and there are two million TB-related deaths worldwide every year. Along the U.S.-Mexico border, migration patterns, and...
View ArticleObesity in Mexican-American Adults: Interplay of Immigrant Generation,...
Using the data from a unique sample of Mexican-American adults from the U.S.-Mexico border area, this chapter offers explanations for Mexican-American obesity, with the special focus on immigrant...
View ArticleHealth Care System Issues and Race/Ethnicity, Immigration, SES and Gender as...
This chapter will initially review some health care system issues with a focus on the US health care system. It will then review some of the sociological literature about race/ethnicity, immigration,...
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