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Creator:: Patton-Lopez, Megan M.
Abstract:: Since the late 1990s accelerated growth in health care spending coupled with a cost shift of health insurance from employers to employees has created an increased financial burden for many families. Past research suggests that financial burden due to out-of-pocket (OOP) health care costs limits access to health care and...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: = 0.05 - 1.02). Households with a child in poor health were not more likely to experience food

Creator:: Marre, Alexander
Abstract:: Why do rural households leave for urban places? And how does this decision affect their economic well-being? Rural places in the United States have higher poverty and unemployment rates and lower levels of educational attainment relative to urban places. Does leaving a rural place for a city offer a pathway...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: this decision affect their economic well-being? Rural places in the United States have higher

Creator:: Olson, Pamela Niemeyer
Abstract:: Resource distribution and adequacy, of elderly individuals and families, was measured by determining an annual dollar value of money and nonmoney economic resources. The nonmoney economic resources were identified as fringe benfits, household production, durable assets, interfamily grants, and community provided goods and services. The data were collected by interviewing...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: resources need to be taken into consideration when attempting to measure total family economic well-being

Creator:: Shepherd, Jennifer R.
Abstract:: This study examined the association between poverty and child neglect. The existence of a general association has been established for some time. However, there is much debate, and little detailed research, on the specific processes that create this association. This study focused on the form of neglect that involves the...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: neglect (Carter & Myers, 2007). Berger (2006) found that poor families who had more economic resources

Creator:: Day, Jack K.
Abstract:: Navigating the transition to adulthood is fraught with challenges, especially for those coming of age during an economic crisis. Individuals often rely on support from existing social networks, and establish social capital through deepening and expanding social ties, as they establish footholds in roles marking adulthood. Yet investing in social...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: identity and psychological maturity, and family and economic contexts also influence identity and

Creator:: Cahn, Megan A.
Abstract:: American Indians and Alaska Natives (AIAN) have more negative sexual and reproductive health outcomes than non-Hispanic whites. Little is known, however, about the factors that lead to sexual and reproductive health disparities for AIANs, including the role of sexual and reproductive health services (SRHS). Logistic regression analyses were performed on...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: National Survey of Family Growth AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Megan A. Cahn

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