Children’s health insurance coverage and adequacy from 2016 to 2018: Racial/ethnic disparities under the ACA (open access)

Children’s health insurance coverage and adequacy from 2016 to 2018: Racial/ethnic disparities under the ACA

This article presents a study to advance health disparities research by documenting the racial/ethnic disparities in children’s health insurance coverage and health insurance adequacy under the implementation and revisions of the Affordable Care Act between 2016 and 2018 in America.
Date: July 29, 2022
Creator: Shen, Yuying; Turner, Carlene Buchanan; Perkins, Robert K. & Moore, Ami R.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Trusting Sources of Information on Quality of Physician Care (open access)

Trusting Sources of Information on Quality of Physician Care

Article studying the contextual and personal characteristics that influence patient-consumers’ decisions to trust or ignore information sources about healthcare quality.
Date: August 24, 2020
Creator: Moore, Ami R.; Hudson, Cassie; Chumbler, Neale & Amey, Foster
System: The UNT Digital Library
Non‑steroidal Anti‑infammatory Drug Use and Risk of Age‑Related Macular Degeneration in the California Teachers Study (open access)

Non‑steroidal Anti‑infammatory Drug Use and Risk of Age‑Related Macular Degeneration in the California Teachers Study

This article examines whether use of regular aspirin and/or other non-steroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) is associated with the development of age-related macular degeneration (AMD).
Date: July 26, 2021
Creator: Xu, Xiaoqing; Ritz, Beate; Coleman, Anne L.; Liew, Zeyan; Deapen, Dennis; Lee, Eunjung et al.
System: The UNT Digital Library
Pathways to sexual decision making by Pentecostal church youths in Botswana (open access)

Pathways to sexual decision making by Pentecostal church youths in Botswana

Article examining the influences of personal religiosity and personal agency on sexual decisions by church youth form the country of Botswana.
Date: April 6, 2021
Creator: Mpofu, Elias; Ntinda, Kayi; Lopez Levers, Lisa; van Rensberg, Angelique & Nkomazana, Fidelis
System: The UNT Digital Library
Migrant and refugee youth perspectives on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Australia: a systematic review (open access)

Migrant and refugee youth perspectives on sexual and reproductive health and rights in Australia: a systematic review

Article discusses how migrant and refugee youth (MRY) in Australia face specific experiences that inform their sexual and reproductive health and rights (SRHR). This review examines the understandings and perspectives of MRY.
Date: December 2, 2022
Creator: Napier-Raman, Sharanya; Hossain, Syeda Zakia; Lee, Mi-Joung; Mpofu, Elias; Liamputtong, Pranee & Dune, Tinashe
System: The UNT Digital Library
Framing of COVID-19 in Newspapers: A Perspective from the US-Mexico Border (open access)

Framing of COVID-19 in Newspapers: A Perspective from the US-Mexico Border

Article discusses the degree to which the media report a health emergency and how it affects the seriousness with which the people respond to combat the health crisis. After collecting relevant news articles, we used sentiment analysis, rapid automatic keyword extraction (RAKE), and co-occurrence network analysis to examine the main themes and sentiments of COVID-19 news articles.
Date: November 24, 2022
Creator: Afrin, Rifat; Harun, Ahasan; Prybutok, Gayle & Prybutok, Victor R.
System: The UNT Digital Library