Kathleen Tierney
Biographic Data
| ID | 239831 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Kathleen Tierney |
| GIVEN NAMES | Kathleen |
| FAMILY NAME | Tierney |
| SIGNATURE | TIERNEY K |
| AFFILIATIONS | Western Michigan University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7235-1833 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 32 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 300 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 32 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Delayed childbearing and reproductive justice
Contemporary women delay childbearing because achieving the normative prerequisites takes longer than previously due to structural changes such as increasing educational requirements for jobs, rising housing costs and growing employment precarity. Policymakers tend to be concerned about delayed reproduction because of its presumed link with lower completed fertility and potential economic consequences. From a humanistic perspective, a more fundam…
Perceptions of infertility
Demographic studies of significant reproductive outcomes, such as infertility and unintended pregnancy, often use measures of perceived infertility, but there are varied understandings and conceptualizations of perceived infertility across studies. Some researchers appear to assume that perceived infertility is consistent with medically defined infertility and implicitly use it as a proxy for medically defined infertility, whereas other researche…
I highly doubt he's blaming himself’
Clinical Education Experiences of Sexual and Gender Minority Midwifery Students in the United States
Introduction: Diversifying the midwifery workforce is a promising strategy for advancing perinatal health and reducing disparities. Clinical education is essential to midwifery training; yet, the experiences of sexual and gender minority (SGM) midwifery students in these settings remain underexplored. Methods: We conducted a national cross-sectional survey of certified nurse-midwives and certified midwives certified between 2019 and 2024 ( n = 41…
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Inequalities in Infertility Prevalence, Help-Seeking, and Help Received Since 1995
Impacts of Covid-19 on Medically Assisted Live Birth Rates in the United States in 2020 and 2021
Initial declines in births due to medically assisted reproduction (MAR) in December 2020 have been documented. However, the longer-term impact of COVID-19 on U.S. MAR birth rates has not yet been evaluated. Negative-binomial regression analyses were employed using counts of MAR births from the National Vital Statistics System and female population counts from the Current Population Survey as the exposure variable. Interaction terms were used to i…
What Education Cannot Equalize
In the United States, age at first birth is increasing and fertility rates are declining. In the absence of policy solutions that enable people to have the children they desire, individuals who have postponed childbearing may seek biomedical solutions in the form of fertility treatments. However, fertility care is marked by racial and socioeconomic inequalities in the United States. How and why such inequalities persist remains unclear, especiall…
Barriers to Postpartum Care
Risky Cities
Medically Assisted Reproduction in the United States
As age at first birth continues to increase in the United States, the use of medically assisted reproduction (MAR) has likely increased. Using population-level data of births in the United States from the National Vital Statistics System from 2010 to 2021, the authors document the proportion of births due to MAR with a focus on parents 40 years or older, disaggregating by parental age combinations and parity. Although MAR-related births constitut…
The Government of Emergency
The Future of Assisted Reproductive Technology Live Births in the United States
As postponement of first births continues in the United States, women and couples will likely continue to turn to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) to overcome biological barriers to childbearing. This paper uses stochastic projections to estimate the potential impacts of ART on the US total fertility rate (TFR) overall and across sociodemographic groups using publicly available data. Assuming the trends in ART continue and the TFR remains…
The Social Roots of Risk
Rather than acts of God or random acts of nature, The Social Roots of Risk argues that hazards, disasters, and crises of all sorts are produced by the social order itself—that the routine activities of institutions, organizations, and groups invite risk into our lives and put us in harms way.
Is there evidence of weathering among women seeking fertility treatments
Abortion Underreporting in Add Health
The new frontier of strategic alliances in health care
Resilience and the Neoliberal Project
Like sustainable development, disaster resilience can be conceptualized as a collective surge in science, policy, and practice. The strength of the resilience surge is based on the concept's usefulness as a boundary object and in particular its resonance with the discourses and practices of neoliberalization, in which the role of the state is diminished and superseded by private-public partnerships and contracts. Current U.S. resilience approache…
Social Dimensions of Disaster Recovery
Research on disaster recovery has moved beyond earlier uni-dimensional, stage-oriented, and linear conceptualizations and toward approaches that recognize variability, social inequality and diversity, and disparities in recovery processes and outcomes. Theory development has been hampered by the lack of a systematic comparative focus and a failure to contextualize recovery within broader global and societal conditions and trends. Recovery theorie…
Disaster Governance
Disaster governance is an emerging concept in the disaster research literature that is closely related to risk governance and environmental governance. Disaster governance arrangements and challenges are shaped by forces such as globalization, world-system dynamics, social inequality, and sociodemographic trends. Governance regimes are polycentric and multiscale, show variation across the hazards cycle, and tend to lack integration and to be form…
A bridge to somewhere
Growth Machine Politics and the Social Production of Risk
A Managed Care Model for Latino Adults With Chronic Illness and Disability
The authors evaluated a managed care model developed for use by community-based providers to improve health care outcomes for low-income Latinos with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Through this model, Medicaid enrollees with special health care needs were identified and received enhanced primary care, on-site mental health and addiction services, care coordination, and support services based on their levels of need. The goal of the demonstra…
Hurricane in New Orleans? Who Knew? Anticipating Katrina and Its Devastation
Foreshadowing Katrina
Metaphors Matter
It has long been understood by disaster researchers that both the general public and organizational actors tend to believe in various disaster myths. Notions that disasters are accompanied by looting, social disorganization, and deviant behavior are examples of such myths. Research shows that the mass media play a significant role in promulgating erroneous beliefs about disaster behavior. Following Hurricane Katrina, the response of disaster vict…
Metaphors Matter
It has long been understood by disaster researchers that both the general public and organizational actors tend to believe in various disaster myths. Notions that disasters are accompanied by looting, social disorganization, and deviant behavior are examples of such myths. Research shows that the mass media play a significant role in promulgating erroneous beliefs about disaster behavior. Following Hurricane Katrina, the response of disaster vict…
The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem
Journal Article The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem Get access Kathleen J. Tierney Kathleen J. Tierney University of California, Los Angeles Correspondence to: Dept. of Sociology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA, 90024. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1 February 1982, Pages 207–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/800155 Published: 30 July 2014
Resilience and the Neoliberal Project
Like sustainable development, disaster resilience can be conceptualized as a collective surge in science, policy, and practice. The strength of the resilience surge is based on the concept's usefulness as a boundary object and in particular its resonance with the discourses and practices of neoliberalization, in which the role of the state is diminished and superseded by private-public partnerships and contracts. Current U.S. resilience approache…
Social Bonding and Community Adjustment of Chronically Mentally Ill Adults
Oscar Grusky, Kathleen Tierney, Ronald W. Manderscheid, David B. Grusky, Social Bonding and Community Adjustment of Chronically Mentally Ill Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 49-63
Foreshadowing Katrina
Abortion Underreporting in Add Health
Evaluating the effectiveness of countywide mental health care systems
The Future of Assisted Reproductive Technology Live Births in the United States
As postponement of first births continues in the United States, women and couples will likely continue to turn to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) to overcome biological barriers to childbearing. This paper uses stochastic projections to estimate the potential impacts of ART on the US total fertility rate (TFR) overall and across sociodemographic groups using publicly available data. Assuming the trends in ART continue and the TFR remains…
A Managed Care Model for Latino Adults With Chronic Illness and Disability
The authors evaluated a managed care model developed for use by community-based providers to improve health care outcomes for low-income Latinos with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Through this model, Medicaid enrollees with special health care needs were identified and received enhanced primary care, on-site mental health and addiction services, care coordination, and support services based on their levels of need. The goal of the demonstra…
The 9/11 Commission and Disaster Management
The 9-11 Commission Report was considered for the National Book Award, both for the style in which it was written and for the manner in which the report provides crucial background information and puts the events of September 11, 2001 into a broader historical and policy context. My colleagues have said much the same thing in this review symposium. While that may be true for other parts of the report, such a perspective is missing from Chapter 9 …
What Education Cannot Equalize
In the United States, age at first birth is increasing and fertility rates are declining. In the absence of policy solutions that enable people to have the children they desire, individuals who have postponed childbearing may seek biomedical solutions in the form of fertility treatments. However, fertility care is marked by racial and socioeconomic inequalities in the United States. How and why such inequalities persist remains unclear, especiall…
Medically Assisted Reproduction in the United States
As age at first birth continues to increase in the United States, the use of medically assisted reproduction (MAR) has likely increased. Using population-level data of births in the United States from the National Vital Statistics System from 2010 to 2021, the authors document the proportion of births due to MAR with a focus on parents 40 years or older, disaggregating by parental age combinations and parity. Although MAR-related births constitut…
The new frontier of strategic alliances in health care
Growth Machine Politics and the Social Production of Risk
Risky Cities
A bridge to somewhere
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem
Journal Article The Battered Women Movement and the Creation of the Wife Beating Problem Get access Kathleen J. Tierney Kathleen J. Tierney University of California, Los Angeles Correspondence to: Dept. of Sociology, UCLA Los Angeles, CA, 90024. Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic PubMed Google Scholar Social Problems, Volume 29, Issue 3, 1 February 1982, Pages 207–220, https://doi.org/10.2307/800155 Published: 30 July 2014
Models of Local Mental Health Delivery Systems
Social Bonding and Community Adjustment of Chronically Mentally Ill Adults
Oscar Grusky, Kathleen Tierney, Ronald W. Manderscheid, David B. Grusky, Social Bonding and Community Adjustment of Chronically Mentally Ill Adults, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, Vol. 26, No. 1 (Mar., 1985), pp. 49-63
Evaluating the effectiveness of countywide mental health care systems
The Evolution of Women's Asylums since 1500
A Framework to Quantitatively Assess and Enhance the Seismic Resilience of Communities
This paper presents a conceptual framework to define seismic resilience of communities and quantitative measures of resilience that can be useful for a coordinated research effort focusing on enhancing this resilience. This framework relies on the complementary measures of resilience: “Reduced failure probabilities,” “Reduced consequences from failures,” and “Reduced time to recovery.” The framework also includes quantitative measures of the “end…
The 9/11 Commission and Disaster Management
The 9-11 Commission Report was considered for the National Book Award, both for the style in which it was written and for the manner in which the report provides crucial background information and puts the events of September 11, 2001 into a broader historical and policy context. My colleagues have said much the same thing in this review symposium. While that may be true for other parts of the report, such a perspective is missing from Chapter 9 …
Foreshadowing Katrina
Metaphors Matter
It has long been understood by disaster researchers that both the general public and organizational actors tend to believe in various disaster myths. Notions that disasters are accompanied by looting, social disorganization, and deviant behavior are examples of such myths. Research shows that the mass media play a significant role in promulgating erroneous beliefs about disaster behavior. Following Hurricane Katrina, the response of disaster vict…
A Managed Care Model for Latino Adults With Chronic Illness and Disability
The authors evaluated a managed care model developed for use by community-based providers to improve health care outcomes for low-income Latinos with disabilities and chronic illnesses. Through this model, Medicaid enrollees with special health care needs were identified and received enhanced primary care, on-site mental health and addiction services, care coordination, and support services based on their levels of need. The goal of the demonstra…
Hurricane in New Orleans? Who Knew? Anticipating Katrina and Its Devastation
Growth Machine Politics and the Social Production of Risk
Social Dimensions of Disaster Recovery
Research on disaster recovery has moved beyond earlier uni-dimensional, stage-oriented, and linear conceptualizations and toward approaches that recognize variability, social inequality and diversity, and disparities in recovery processes and outcomes. Theory development has been hampered by the lack of a systematic comparative focus and a failure to contextualize recovery within broader global and societal conditions and trends. Recovery theorie…
Disaster Governance
Disaster governance is an emerging concept in the disaster research literature that is closely related to risk governance and environmental governance. Disaster governance arrangements and challenges are shaped by forces such as globalization, world-system dynamics, social inequality, and sociodemographic trends. Governance regimes are polycentric and multiscale, show variation across the hazards cycle, and tend to lack integration and to be form…
A bridge to somewhere
Resilience and the Neoliberal Project
Like sustainable development, disaster resilience can be conceptualized as a collective surge in science, policy, and practice. The strength of the resilience surge is based on the concept's usefulness as a boundary object and in particular its resonance with the discourses and practices of neoliberalization, in which the role of the state is diminished and superseded by private-public partnerships and contracts. Current U.S. resilience approache…
The new frontier of strategic alliances in health care
Abortion Underreporting in Add Health
The Social Roots of Risk
Rather than acts of God or random acts of nature, The Social Roots of Risk argues that hazards, disasters, and crises of all sorts are produced by the social order itself—that the routine activities of institutions, organizations, and groups invite risk into our lives and put us in harms way.
Is there evidence of weathering among women seeking fertility treatments
The Future of Assisted Reproductive Technology Live Births in the United States
As postponement of first births continues in the United States, women and couples will likely continue to turn to assisted reproductive technologies (ART) to overcome biological barriers to childbearing. This paper uses stochastic projections to estimate the potential impacts of ART on the US total fertility rate (TFR) overall and across sociodemographic groups using publicly available data. Assuming the trends in ART continue and the TFR remains…
Barriers to Postpartum Care
Risky Cities
Medically Assisted Reproduction in the United States
As age at first birth continues to increase in the United States, the use of medically assisted reproduction (MAR) has likely increased. Using population-level data of births in the United States from the National Vital Statistics System from 2010 to 2021, the authors document the proportion of births due to MAR with a focus on parents 40 years or older, disaggregating by parental age combinations and parity. Although MAR-related births constitut…
The Government of Emergency
Political science (16 works) · Sociology (15 works) · Medicine (12 works) · Disaster Management and Resilience (11 works) · Economics (11 works) · Law (10 works) · Population (9 works) · Business (8 works) · Politics (8 works) · Reproductive Health and Technologies (8 works)