Tyler W Myroniuk
Biographic Data
| ID | 160187 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tyler W Myroniuk |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tyler W |
| FAMILY NAME | Myroniuk |
| SIGNATURE | MYRONIUK T W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Missouri |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6674-7930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 28 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 46 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 28 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
The nexus of the risk of depression and residential mobility for urban poor mothers
Introduction: In Africa, the nexus between mental well-being and residential mobility is understudied, especially in urban settings. World Health Organization estimates show that the African continent, as a whole, has some of the world's highest rates of postpartum depressive disorders. Understanding how residential mobility shapes the risk of depression among urban poor mothers in African contexts is of high importance to public health, given th…
Black South Africans Who Migrate Away From Their Rural Homes and Their Chances of Having Abdominal Obesity
INTRODUCTION: South Africa is experiencing a heterogeneous and rapid nutrition transition. Rural-origin Black South Africans frequently migrate to access employment opportunities in urbanized areas, which could place individuals at risk for obesity due to accompanying dietary and lifestyle changes. METHODS: We utilize longitudinal data-four waves from 2018 to 2022-with detailed internal migration and health information, and negligible participant…
Internal migration and depressive symptoms
Introduction: Investigations of migration effects on mental health conditions, including depression are sparse in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), yet mental health may play a role in a decision to migrate, and migration in turn can impact on mental health outcomes. Methods: This paper uses two waves of data from the Migrant Health Follow-Up Study, a young adult cohort of 3092 internal migrants and residents of the Agincourt study site in…
Surprising Gendered Age Differences in Rural Malawians’ Early Covid-19 Pandemic Prevention Efforts
Gendered age differences in preventing the transmission of COVID-19 offer hints of larger social norms affecting protective efforts. The analyses also inform future COVID-19 public health outreach efforts in Malawi and other rural SSA contexts
Do Migrants Exhibit More Grit? A Research Note
Strong expectations exist for the selectivity of migration along key demographic characteristics, such as age, sex, and education, which are often linked to social and economic drivers. Scholars acknowledge, however, that migratory behavior is also likely to be selective on characteristics that are less readily observable. This research note expands the list by examining “grit”—in other words, a measure of perseverance in the face of adversity. W…
How Midwestern College students protected their families in the first year of Covid-19
Introduction: College students routinely visit their families due to geographic proximity and their financial dependence. Consequently, the potential of transmitting COVID-19 from campus to their families' homes is consequential. Family members are key sources of support for one another in nearly all matters but there is little research uncovering the mechanisms by which families have protected each other in the pandemic. Methods: Through an expl…
A qualitative evaluation of a campus wide Covid-19 health education campaign
Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the diseases it causes remain a public health threat. Data describing health education campaigns for COVID-19 on university and college campuses are lacking, however. Purpose: This study explored college students’ experiences of a USA campus COVID-19 campaign encouraging masking, social distancing and handwashing. Methods: We conducted in-depth interviews with 33 dem…
Post-migration emotional well-being among Black South Africans
Internal migration has been an institutionalized part of life for Black South Africans from the 1800s, when men left their rural homes to work in mines, through apartheid and into the present. Like other settings in the Global South, we know surprisingly little about the emotional well-being of migrants, especially in sub-Saharan African contexts. We investigate changes in the emotional well-being of 2281 working-age Black South Africans after mi…
Undergraduate Vaccine Hesitancy and the Influence of “Home” Locales
There is a link between county-level health and geographic characteristics, and individuals'-who were influenced by those counties because that is where their parents live-hesitancy towards vaccines. Identifying feasible, precise, local solutions to reducing vaccine hesitancy could take place if community members and other stakeholders would be open to changes in local-level health policy or practice
Covid Is Another Layer of Problematic Things”
The COVID-19 pandemic not only had detrimental effects on physical health but also had adverse effects on college students' mental health. This paper begins to fill a gap in knowledge related to the contextual factors that impacted college students' mental health during COVID. Using in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of 33 college students at a Midwestern university, during Spring 2021, we highlight the pandemic's role in shaping college s…
Mitigating the Spread of Covid-19
Racially minoritized groups have disproportionately borne the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in America. We draw on Public Health Critical Race Praxis to investigate racial differences in college students' attitudes about mitigation efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 and concerns about one's own and others' actions in these efforts. We used survey data from a random sample of Midwestern undergraduates (n = 620) who participated in a fall 2…
Listening to Transgender Patients and Their Providers in Non-Metropolitan Spaces
Trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) patients need better care; providers need TGNC focused medical trainings. TGNC health conferences can help, yet these events occur mostly in urban centers. Meanwhile, patients in non-metropolitan areas often face significant discrimination and notably poor access to TGNC care. This study explores the ongoing needs of TGNC patients and their providers following a one-day TGNC health conference in a small town…
A Photovoice Exploration of the Lived Experience of Intersectional Stigma among People Living with HIV
Marital dissolutions and changes in mental health
BACKGROUND: Advancing efforts to unpack the complex relationship between marital dissolutions and health outcomes increasingly requires assessing the marital histories and health of individuals who have lived long enough to experience divorce or widowhood ‒ or even multiples of each ‒ and measurable changes in health. OBJECTIVE: To explore this line of inquiry, we chose a sample from rural Malawi where a high prevalence of marital dissolutions an…
Without Qualitative Health Data, Precision Health Will Be Imprecise
Community-Engaged Qualitative Scholarship During a Pandemic
Keywords community based research, methods in qualitative inquiry, par-participatory action research, action research, case study
You Have to Withstand That Because You Have Come for What You Have Come for
Nationwide rollout of antiretroviral treatment (ART) is increasing the number of older persons living with HIV (OPLWH) in South Africa. Yet, little is known about how the sociological aspects of ageing - stigma, finances and family dynamics - impact access to ART. Qualitative interviews with 23 persons aged 50-plus living near Cape Town highlight the barriers and facilitators to the acceptability, affordability and availability of ART access amon…
The Longitudinal Dynamics of Household Composition and Wealth in Rural Malawi
Household living arrangements play a crucial role in survival efforts throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Household living arrangements foster the development of informal insurance that can mitigate economic or filial shocks, and potentially improve the overall well-being of kin. However, scholarship in sub-Saharan African settings has not been able to, or has not attempted, to track how households have changed and the coinciding changes in livelihood…
Does it Take a Village? Migration among Rural South African Youth
The duration of residence spells among Malawians
It is well-documented that established networks in a destination increase the chances of an individual moving to that destination, but rarely have migration scholars examined how these networks are linked to the duration of one's stay. This paper examines whether the presence of kin and/or friends known at a location prior to moving is associated with one's duration of residence. Presumably, having both kin and friends already at a destination wi…
Shocks and migration in Malawi
Research on the relationship between shocks and migration has primarily focused on large shocks, such as natural disasters or economic crises. Far less is known about smaller shocks, despite the fact that these shocks are common and often have a large impa
Getting a Child through Secondary School and to College in India
In the classic formulations of social capital theory, families employ their social capital resources to enhance other capitals, in particular their human capital investments. Social capital would seem to be especially important in the case of India, where, in recent years, higher education has been under considerable stress with rising educational demand, inadequate supply, and little parental experience to guide children's transition through the…
Household structure vs. composition
Despite the wealth of literature on household structure and children's educational outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, the conceptual basis of these effects has not been well articulated. We have shown the value of unpacking household structure to better understand how gender norms and gendered resource allocations impact education
Why rely on friends instead of family? The role of exchanges and civic engagement in a rural sub-Saharan African context
Social science research has shown there is a nearly universal norm of seeking assistance from family members in times of need. However, when do individuals prefer to rely on friends, rather than family members, when they need support? This question has not been carefully addressed. To fill this gap in the literature we examine why rural Malawians - who typically have strong bonds with kin - might prefer to rely on friends instead of family if a c…
Marital Dissolutions and the Health of Older Individuals in a Rural African Context
The findings question the relative hardship of marital dissolutions for those who have managed to survive into old age, and call for the collection of more detailed longitudinal data on older Africans on this topic
Household structure vs. composition
Despite the wealth of literature on household structure and children's educational outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, the conceptual basis of these effects has not been well articulated. We have shown the value of unpacking household structure to better understand how gender norms and gendered resource allocations impact education
Does Social Participation Predict Better Health? A Longitudinal Study in Rural Malawi
Research on the relationship between social capital and individual health often suffers from important limitations. Most research relies on cross-sectional data, which precludes identifying whether participation predicts health and/or vice versa. Some important conceptualizations of social capital, like social participation, have seldom been examined. Little is known about participation and health in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, both physical…
Shocks and migration in Malawi
Research on the relationship between shocks and migration has primarily focused on large shocks, such as natural disasters or economic crises. Far less is known about smaller shocks, despite the fact that these shocks are common and often have a large impa
Social Capital and Livelihoods in Johannesburg
Foreign-born migrants – a group rarely compared with both internal migrants and long-term residents – are often positioned as the most disadvantaged South African urban population. We use data from a 2008 cross-sectional household survey conducted in Johannesburg to compare a contextually relevant measure of social capital and livelihood advantages between foreign-born migrants, internal migrants, and long-term South African residents. Our findin…
Community-Engaged Qualitative Scholarship During a Pandemic
Keywords community based research, methods in qualitative inquiry, par-participatory action research, action research, case study
Gendered social capital in a Johannesburg township
Social capital research rarely takes a gendered approach. This article explores how black women and men from a marginalized community in Johannesburg, South Africa, rely on family, friends, and community members to survive and strategize for the future by utilizing social capital. The results from 30 semi-structured interviews and ego network mapping illustrate that gender moderates the type of social capital used and benefits associated with bon…
Why rely on friends instead of family? The role of exchanges and civic engagement in a rural sub-Saharan African context
Social science research has shown there is a nearly universal norm of seeking assistance from family members in times of need. However, when do individuals prefer to rely on friends, rather than family members, when they need support? This question has not been carefully addressed. To fill this gap in the literature we examine why rural Malawians - who typically have strong bonds with kin - might prefer to rely on friends instead of family if a c…
Does it Take a Village? Migration among Rural South African Youth
A Photovoice Exploration of the Lived Experience of Intersectional Stigma among People Living with HIV
Marital dissolutions and changes in mental health
BACKGROUND: Advancing efforts to unpack the complex relationship between marital dissolutions and health outcomes increasingly requires assessing the marital histories and health of individuals who have lived long enough to experience divorce or widowhood ‒ or even multiples of each ‒ and measurable changes in health. OBJECTIVE: To explore this line of inquiry, we chose a sample from rural Malawi where a high prevalence of marital dissolutions an…
You Have to Withstand That Because You Have Come for What You Have Come for
Nationwide rollout of antiretroviral treatment (ART) is increasing the number of older persons living with HIV (OPLWH) in South Africa. Yet, little is known about how the sociological aspects of ageing - stigma, finances and family dynamics - impact access to ART. Qualitative interviews with 23 persons aged 50-plus living near Cape Town highlight the barriers and facilitators to the acceptability, affordability and availability of ART access amon…
The Longitudinal Dynamics of Household Composition and Wealth in Rural Malawi
Household living arrangements play a crucial role in survival efforts throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Household living arrangements foster the development of informal insurance that can mitigate economic or filial shocks, and potentially improve the overall well-being of kin. However, scholarship in sub-Saharan African settings has not been able to, or has not attempted, to track how households have changed and the coinciding changes in livelihood…
Social Capital and Livelihoods in Johannesburg
Foreign-born migrants – a group rarely compared with both internal migrants and long-term residents – are often positioned as the most disadvantaged South African urban population. We use data from a 2008 cross-sectional household survey conducted in Johannesburg to compare a contextually relevant measure of social capital and livelihood advantages between foreign-born migrants, internal migrants, and long-term South African residents. Our findin…
Does Social Participation Predict Better Health? A Longitudinal Study in Rural Malawi
Research on the relationship between social capital and individual health often suffers from important limitations. Most research relies on cross-sectional data, which precludes identifying whether participation predicts health and/or vice versa. Some important conceptualizations of social capital, like social participation, have seldom been examined. Little is known about participation and health in sub-Saharan Africa. Furthermore, both physical…
Marital Dissolutions and the Health of Older Individuals in a Rural African Context
The findings question the relative hardship of marital dissolutions for those who have managed to survive into old age, and call for the collection of more detailed longitudinal data on older Africans on this topic
Gendered social capital in a Johannesburg township
Social capital research rarely takes a gendered approach. This article explores how black women and men from a marginalized community in Johannesburg, South Africa, rely on family, friends, and community members to survive and strategize for the future by utilizing social capital. The results from 30 semi-structured interviews and ego network mapping illustrate that gender moderates the type of social capital used and benefits associated with bon…
Getting a Child through Secondary School and to College in India
In the classic formulations of social capital theory, families employ their social capital resources to enhance other capitals, in particular their human capital investments. Social capital would seem to be especially important in the case of India, where, in recent years, higher education has been under considerable stress with rising educational demand, inadequate supply, and little parental experience to guide children's transition through the…
Household structure vs. composition
Despite the wealth of literature on household structure and children's educational outcomes in sub-Saharan Africa, the conceptual basis of these effects has not been well articulated. We have shown the value of unpacking household structure to better understand how gender norms and gendered resource allocations impact education
Why rely on friends instead of family? The role of exchanges and civic engagement in a rural sub-Saharan African context
Social science research has shown there is a nearly universal norm of seeking assistance from family members in times of need. However, when do individuals prefer to rely on friends, rather than family members, when they need support? This question has not been carefully addressed. To fill this gap in the literature we examine why rural Malawians - who typically have strong bonds with kin - might prefer to rely on friends instead of family if a c…
Does it Take a Village? Migration among Rural South African Youth
The duration of residence spells among Malawians
It is well-documented that established networks in a destination increase the chances of an individual moving to that destination, but rarely have migration scholars examined how these networks are linked to the duration of one's stay. This paper examines whether the presence of kin and/or friends known at a location prior to moving is associated with one's duration of residence. Presumably, having both kin and friends already at a destination wi…
Shocks and migration in Malawi
Research on the relationship between shocks and migration has primarily focused on large shocks, such as natural disasters or economic crises. Far less is known about smaller shocks, despite the fact that these shocks are common and often have a large impa
The Longitudinal Dynamics of Household Composition and Wealth in Rural Malawi
Household living arrangements play a crucial role in survival efforts throughout sub-Saharan Africa. Household living arrangements foster the development of informal insurance that can mitigate economic or filial shocks, and potentially improve the overall well-being of kin. However, scholarship in sub-Saharan African settings has not been able to, or has not attempted, to track how households have changed and the coinciding changes in livelihood…
Listening to Transgender Patients and Their Providers in Non-Metropolitan Spaces
Trans and gender non-conforming (TGNC) patients need better care; providers need TGNC focused medical trainings. TGNC health conferences can help, yet these events occur mostly in urban centers. Meanwhile, patients in non-metropolitan areas often face significant discrimination and notably poor access to TGNC care. This study explores the ongoing needs of TGNC patients and their providers following a one-day TGNC health conference in a small town…
A Photovoice Exploration of the Lived Experience of Intersectional Stigma among People Living with HIV
Marital dissolutions and changes in mental health
BACKGROUND: Advancing efforts to unpack the complex relationship between marital dissolutions and health outcomes increasingly requires assessing the marital histories and health of individuals who have lived long enough to experience divorce or widowhood ‒ or even multiples of each ‒ and measurable changes in health. OBJECTIVE: To explore this line of inquiry, we chose a sample from rural Malawi where a high prevalence of marital dissolutions an…
Without Qualitative Health Data, Precision Health Will Be Imprecise
Community-Engaged Qualitative Scholarship During a Pandemic
Keywords community based research, methods in qualitative inquiry, par-participatory action research, action research, case study
You Have to Withstand That Because You Have Come for What You Have Come for
Nationwide rollout of antiretroviral treatment (ART) is increasing the number of older persons living with HIV (OPLWH) in South Africa. Yet, little is known about how the sociological aspects of ageing - stigma, finances and family dynamics - impact access to ART. Qualitative interviews with 23 persons aged 50-plus living near Cape Town highlight the barriers and facilitators to the acceptability, affordability and availability of ART access amon…
A qualitative evaluation of a campus wide Covid-19 health education campaign
Background: The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and the diseases it causes remain a public health threat. Data describing health education campaigns for COVID-19 on university and college campuses are lacking, however. Purpose: This study explored college students’ experiences of a USA campus COVID-19 campaign encouraging masking, social distancing and handwashing. Methods: We conducted in-depth interviews with 33 dem…
Post-migration emotional well-being among Black South Africans
Internal migration has been an institutionalized part of life for Black South Africans from the 1800s, when men left their rural homes to work in mines, through apartheid and into the present. Like other settings in the Global South, we know surprisingly little about the emotional well-being of migrants, especially in sub-Saharan African contexts. We investigate changes in the emotional well-being of 2281 working-age Black South Africans after mi…
Undergraduate Vaccine Hesitancy and the Influence of “Home” Locales
There is a link between county-level health and geographic characteristics, and individuals'-who were influenced by those counties because that is where their parents live-hesitancy towards vaccines. Identifying feasible, precise, local solutions to reducing vaccine hesitancy could take place if community members and other stakeholders would be open to changes in local-level health policy or practice
Covid Is Another Layer of Problematic Things”
The COVID-19 pandemic not only had detrimental effects on physical health but also had adverse effects on college students' mental health. This paper begins to fill a gap in knowledge related to the contextual factors that impacted college students' mental health during COVID. Using in-depth interviews with a diverse sample of 33 college students at a Midwestern university, during Spring 2021, we highlight the pandemic's role in shaping college s…
Mitigating the Spread of Covid-19
Racially minoritized groups have disproportionately borne the impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic in America. We draw on Public Health Critical Race Praxis to investigate racial differences in college students' attitudes about mitigation efforts to limit the spread of COVID-19 and concerns about one's own and others' actions in these efforts. We used survey data from a random sample of Midwestern undergraduates (n = 620) who participated in a fall 2…
How Midwestern College students protected their families in the first year of Covid-19
Introduction: College students routinely visit their families due to geographic proximity and their financial dependence. Consequently, the potential of transmitting COVID-19 from campus to their families' homes is consequential. Family members are key sources of support for one another in nearly all matters but there is little research uncovering the mechanisms by which families have protected each other in the pandemic. Methods: Through an expl…
Internal migration and depressive symptoms
Introduction: Investigations of migration effects on mental health conditions, including depression are sparse in low- and middle-income countries (LMIC), yet mental health may play a role in a decision to migrate, and migration in turn can impact on mental health outcomes. Methods: This paper uses two waves of data from the Migrant Health Follow-Up Study, a young adult cohort of 3092 internal migrants and residents of the Agincourt study site in…
Surprising Gendered Age Differences in Rural Malawians’ Early Covid-19 Pandemic Prevention Efforts
Gendered age differences in preventing the transmission of COVID-19 offer hints of larger social norms affecting protective efforts. The analyses also inform future COVID-19 public health outreach efforts in Malawi and other rural SSA contexts
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