Older African Americans face substantial barriers to state-of-the-art cancer care. Implementing culturally appropriate support throughout cancer therapy is critical to improving cancer outcomes and quality of life for this vulnerable population. The purpose of this study was to obtain experiential data regarding cancer diagnosis and treatment, and analyze survivors' recommendations regarding tr...

Among the impoverished population of coastal Kenya, there is a rapidly growing group of young single mothers who suffer from adverse health outcomes, incomplete schooling, social ostracism by their communities, and economic hardship. To address this problem, in 2008 the Single Mothers Program (SMP) selected a group of vulnerable single mothers, provided them with basic relief and education, equ...

Recent research by Desmond (2016) describes being evicted from one’s home as an ordinary experience for many low-income mothers in American cities. Involuntary removal from housing is considered a traumatic and shameful experience (Serby et al. 2006) that undermines health and causes additional material hardship (Desmond and Kimbro 2015). In response to this social problem, Desmond calls for a ...

Evidence suggests that prenatal maternal stress (PNMS) has long-term effects on several outcomes, yet effects on neuromotor function are relatively unknown. We aimed to determine whether disaster-related PNMS predicts motor functioning in young children and whether timing of exposure and sex of the child moderate these effects. Objective and subjective PNMS levels were assessed among pregnant w...

We explore whether a protective role for savings against future financial hardship exists using household level panel data nationally representative sample of UK households. jointly model the incidence and extent problems, dynamic two-part approach allowing different data-generating processes experiencing experienced. Our results show that: (i) saving on regular basis mitigates likelihood exper...

INTRODUCTION In Sweden, means-tested social assistance serves as a temporary, last resort safety net. However, increasing numbers of people are receiving it for longer periods and about a third has assistance for more than a year. The aim of this study was to explore the ways social assistance recipients manage long lasting adversity and their roles as active, rather than passive, agents in thi...

This paper analyzed how Confucian’s mediation roots in modern Chinese female writers leading them to expose their life lessons the works of optimistic-tragic endings as a concrete form term first step. To answer this question, author compared achievements three writers, Lin Hai-yin (1918-2001), Hsiao Hung (1911-1942) and Eileen Chang (1920-1995) observed influence on stories’ endings. The analy...

Reducing the prevalence of household food insecurity has been a long-standing objective of the federal government. Previous research has found many negative consequences of food insecurity for families and households but has not examined its relationship with housing instability. Using longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing Study, difference-in-difference models show th...