background : connection between socioeconomic statuses and mental health has been reported already. accordingly, mental health asymmetrically is distributed in society; therefore, people with disadvantaged condition suffer from inconsistent burden of mental disorders. in this study, we aimed to understand the determinants of socioeconomic inequality of mental health in the female-headed househo...

The chapters in this volume were originally papers commissioned by the National Poverty Center at the University of Michigan and by the Economic Research Service (ERS) in the U.S. Department of Agriculture. They were presented at a conference titled " Income Volatility and Implications for Food Assistance Programs II, " held in November 2006 in Washington, D.C. The conference was the second in ...

Increasing numbers of poor Mexican immigrant families are settling in the rural southeastern United States. Most of these families are from isolated agrarian communities in Mexico and are headed by unskilled laborers or displaced farm workers with little education. Child welfare workers and other service providers in rural communities may be poorly prepared to address the needs of this populati...

While the causes of family homelessness can be traced to broader economic and psychosocial issues—particularly the gap between income and rent, the availability of decent affordable lowincome housing, and the high poverty rates among families headed by women—much remains to be learned about the course of homelessness and the experience of residential instability over time. Such information is c...

This paper focuses on the impact of heteronormativity on research and clinical theory, utilizing the case of a lesbian couple with a young gender dysphoric child as a backdrop to discuss the contextual unfolding of gender development within a lesbian parented family. The extant research on LGBTQ-headed families has minimized the complexity of children's developing gender identity and sexual ori...

OBJECTIVES To evaluate the clinical effects of blood purification for treating fulminant hepatic failure (FHF). METHODS Thirty-three severe FHF patients with hepatic encephalopathy (HE) above grade III were subjected to a combined blood purification treatment in addition to the comprehensive liver protection therapy. Patients underwent continuous hemofiltration on a daily basis during the day...

This paper estimates income gap ratios and Gini coefficients of poor Americans and combines them with official U.S. government poverty statistics to create a new time series of Sen indices of poverty. The effects of growth and other determinants of aggregate poverty are investigated over the period 1961-1996. The results indicate that economic growth affects the Sen index and official poverty h...