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Out-of-pocket health care expenditures and household food insecurity among families with children

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:: . Patton-Lopez A DISSERTATION Submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment

Keeping a Roof Overhead : An Examination of Housing Strategies Among Low-Income White Families in Rural Trailer Parks

Creator:: Barrett-Rivera, Brenda C.
Abstract:: Housing is a critical component of family life, however, keeping a safe and stable roof overhead is increasingly difficult for the approximately 21 million low-income families in the United States (Urban Institute, n.d.; U.S. Census, 2015). Low-income families struggle to keep a roof overhead within the context of rising housing...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: , representing Human Development and Family Studies Co-Director of the School of Social and Behavioral

Community infrastructure and the development of human capital: A Pacific View

Creator:: Cramer, Lori A.
Resource Type:: Part of Book

Employment growth, social capital, and spatial determinants of poverty change

Creator:: Crandall, Mindy S.
Abstract:: This study models poverty changes across the United States between 1990 and 2000 as a function of spatial poverty variables (variables that attempt to capture the spatial effects of poverty and poverty changes), social capital, local employment growth, and demographic controls. Newly available decennial census data at the tract level...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: : Employment Growth, Social Capjtal, and Spatial Determinants of Poverty Change Abstract approved: Bruce A

"Because we didn't have nowhere to go" : residential instability among rural low-income families

Creator:: Ozretich, Robin Nathaniel
Abstract:: The purpose of this study was to identify and examine risk and protective factors associated with residential instability within a sample of rural low-income mothers. Residential instability was defined as two or more residential moves within the course of a year. Qualitative and quantitative methods were used to compare residentially...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: family's location within the social structure has a strong influence on family structures and family

Doing time : papers from Framingham prison

Creator:: Power, Katherine A.
Abstract:: This thesis is an arrangement of essays, poems, and journal entries expressing and exploring experiences from the author's six years in a medium security women's prison. They are collected around the themes of longing and grief, of despair, of survival, of joy, and of the complexity of homecoming.
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: Prison by Katherine A. Power A THESIS submitted to Oregon State University in partial fulfillment of

The Bullying Experiences of Muslim-American Youth in U.S. Public Schools

Creator:: Baadarani, Dalia
Abstract:: Bullying cultivates insecurity and fear while generating attention for the perpetrator and degrading the student-victim in front of others. The act erodes the self-efficacy and identity of minority students more specifically and produces a hostile climate that undermines the learning and social development to all affected. Despite the pervasive negative...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: school level and social justice levels to 4 improve the condition. The data on the number of

Finding personal power through literacy : Latina women's transformative learning experiences in two family literacy programs

Creator:: Merrill, Marina L.
Abstract:: This research focused on the experiences of 15 low income Mexican women immigrants participating in MAS and Superando, two family literacy programs at the center of these women's sociocultural change. This research sought to understand the extent to which participation in these two programs empowers women to create change in...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: assimilate and negotiate life in the United States. Family literacy programs offer parents of children under

Weight Stigma and Its Associations with Health Behaviors Among Older Adults

Creator:: Phibbs, Sandi Cleveland
Abstract:: Having excess weight carries a negative social stigma in the U.S. Previous research has shown that experiencing stigma has negative physical and mental health consequences. Few studies have examined how experiencing weight stigma might act as a barrier to engaging in healthy behaviors among older adults. The purpose of this...
Resource Type:: Dissertation
Full Text:: : ______________________________________________________ Sheryl!A.!Thorburn! ! ! ! Having!excess!weight!carries!a!negative!social!stigma!in!the!U.S

Native American Women : Leadership, Activism, and Feminism

Creator:: Cole, Spirit Dine'tah
Abstract:: In fulfilling their traditional roles as leaders in their communities, American Indian women are often at the core of American Indian resistance and struggles for liberation. Native women have a long history of assuming leadership positions within their particular tribes. Their struggles share many of the characteristics of women's struggles...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

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Out-of-pocket health care expenditures and household food insecurity among families with children

Keeping a Roof Overhead : An Examination of Housing Strategies Among Low-Income White Families in Rural Trailer Parks

Community infrastructure and the development of human capital: A Pacific View

Employment growth, social capital, and spatial determinants of poverty change

"Because we didn't have nowhere to go" : residential instability among rural low-income families

Doing time : papers from Framingham prison

The Bullying Experiences of Muslim-American Youth in U.S. Public Schools

Finding personal power through literacy : Latina women's transformative learning experiences in two family literacy programs

Weight Stigma and Its Associations with Health Behaviors Among Older Adults

Native American Women : Leadership, Activism, and Feminism

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