John Wiltshire
Biographic Data
| ID | 1083370 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John Wiltshire |
| GIVEN NAMES | John |
| FAMILY NAME | Wiltshire |
| SIGNATURE | WILTSHIRE J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Florida Agricultural and Mechanical University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-9371-5675 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1993 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Development of a health-related social need screener for adults soon to be, and recently released, from incarceration
BACKGROUND: A history of incarceration is associated with poor overall health and increased health care utilization and costs. The challenges facing people recently released from prison vary by age, gender, and reason for incarceration. Better identification and management of the needs facing this population is critical for both state departments of correction, tasked with ensuring effective re-entry into the community, and for the health care sy…
Confidence in Understanding Health Insurance and Challenges Paying Medical Bills Among Men in the United States
Although the number of men with health insurance has increased, men are less likely to utilize health services than females, and experience difficulty in paying medical bills. Understanding the details of health insurance can be challenging and the lack of understanding can have financial consequences. This study, guided by Andersen’s model of health-care utilization, assessed the relationship between confidence level in understanding health insu…
Medical Debt and Related Financial Consequences Among Older African American and White Adults
Objectives. To evaluate African American–White differences in medical debt among older adults and the extent to which economic and health factors explained these. Methods. We used nationally representative data from the 2007 and 2010 US Health Tracking Household Survey (n = 5838) and computed population-based estimates of medical debt attributable to economic and health factors with adjustment for age, gender, marital status, and education. Resul…
Differences in Problems Paying Medical Bills between African Americans and Whites from 2007 and 2009
African American Men and Women’s Attitude Toward Mental Illness, Perceptions of Stigma, and Preferred Coping Behaviors
BACKGROUND: Although research focused on African Americans with mental illness has been increasing, few researchers have addressed gender and age differences in beliefs, attitudes, and coping. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine African Americans' beliefs about mental illness, attitudes toward seeking mental health services, and preferred coping behaviors and whether these variables differ by gender and age. METHODS: An exploratory, c…
Trust, Medication Adherence, and Hypertension Control in Southern African American Men
We examined the relationship between trust in the medical system, medication adherence, and hypertension control in Southern African American men. The sample included 235 African American men aged 18 years and older with hypertension. African American men with higher general trust in the medical system were more likely to report better medication adherence (odds ratio [OR] = 1.06), and those with higher self-efficacy were more likely to report be…
Health information seeking and use outside of the medical encounter
Disentangling the Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Differences Between African American and White Women in Unmet Medical Needs
Objectives. We sought to disentangle the relationships between race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and unmet medical care needs. Methods. Data from the 2003–2004 Community Tracking Study Household Survey were used to examine associations between unmet medical needs and SES among African American and White women. Results. No significant racial/ethnic differences in unmet medical needs (24.8% of Whites, 25.9% of African Americans; P = .59) …
The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Participation in Care Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
These findings underscore the importance of education in the acquisition and use of health information among middle-aged and older adults
A Life of James BoswellJohnson the Poet
Book Review| March 01 2002 A Life of James BoswellJohnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson and the Culture of Property A Life of James Boswell. By Martin, Peter. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. 613. 0-300-08489-7.Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson. By Venturo, David P.. Newark: University Press of Delaware/London: Associated University Presses, 1999. Pp. 334. 0-87413-676-8.Samue…
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Book Review| September 01 2001 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. By Grundy, Isobel. Oxford University Press. Oxford1999. Pp. 680. hc. 0-19-811289-0. John Wiltshire John Wiltshire La Trobe University, Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 84–87. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-39.1.84 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time
Book Review| September 01 2000 Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time. By Waldron, Mary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $49.95. 0-521-65130-1. John Wiltshire John Wiltshire La Trobe University, Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2000) 38 (1): 93–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-38.1.93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…
Ethnography and Oliver Sacks
(1999). Ethnography and Oliver Sacks: The anthropologist on Mars. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 389-402
Revolution and the form of the British novel, 1790–1825, intercepted letters, interrupted seductions
Beyond the Ouija Board
Beyond the Ouija Board: Dialogue and Heteroglossia in the Medical Narrative* John Wiltshire In the case history of "Leonard L," the last of the narratives about patients that form the central core of Oliver Sacks's Awakenings, Leonard, lying paralyzed in bed, communicates with the outside world by means of "a small letter board."1 Though deprived almost totally of voluntary motion and speech by the effects of viral encephalitis, bereft of normal …
Samuel Johnson in the Medical World
Love unto Death
A Love unto Death: Fanny Burney's "Narrative of the Last Illness and Death of General d'Arblay" (1820) John Wiltshire The narrative that Frances Burney (1752-1840) composed describing her mastectomy in 1811 has rapidly become a classic text in the field of Uterature and medicine, widely known and commented upon.1 Though she is still most famous perhaps as the author of Evelina (1778), Burney's other novels have been enjoying a revival of interest…
Health information seeking and use outside of the medical encounter
The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Participation in Care Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
These findings underscore the importance of education in the acquisition and use of health information among middle-aged and older adults
Trust, Medication Adherence, and Hypertension Control in Southern African American Men
We examined the relationship between trust in the medical system, medication adherence, and hypertension control in Southern African American men. The sample included 235 African American men aged 18 years and older with hypertension. African American men with higher general trust in the medical system were more likely to report better medication adherence (odds ratio [OR] = 1.06), and those with higher self-efficacy were more likely to report be…
Medical Debt and Related Financial Consequences Among Older African American and White Adults
Objectives. To evaluate African American–White differences in medical debt among older adults and the extent to which economic and health factors explained these. Methods. We used nationally representative data from the 2007 and 2010 US Health Tracking Household Survey (n = 5838) and computed population-based estimates of medical debt attributable to economic and health factors with adjustment for age, gender, marital status, and education. Resul…
Disentangling the Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Differences Between African American and White Women in Unmet Medical Needs
Objectives. We sought to disentangle the relationships between race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and unmet medical care needs. Methods. Data from the 2003–2004 Community Tracking Study Household Survey were used to examine associations between unmet medical needs and SES among African American and White women. Results. No significant racial/ethnic differences in unmet medical needs (24.8% of Whites, 25.9% of African Americans; P = .59) …
Samuel Johnson in the Medical World
Love unto Death
A Love unto Death: Fanny Burney's "Narrative of the Last Illness and Death of General d'Arblay" (1820) John Wiltshire The narrative that Frances Burney (1752-1840) composed describing her mastectomy in 1811 has rapidly become a classic text in the field of Uterature and medicine, widely known and commented upon.1 Though she is still most famous perhaps as the author of Evelina (1778), Burney's other novels have been enjoying a revival of interest…
Beyond the Ouija Board
Beyond the Ouija Board: Dialogue and Heteroglossia in the Medical Narrative* John Wiltshire In the case history of "Leonard L," the last of the narratives about patients that form the central core of Oliver Sacks's Awakenings, Leonard, lying paralyzed in bed, communicates with the outside world by means of "a small letter board."1 Though deprived almost totally of voluntary motion and speech by the effects of viral encephalitis, bereft of normal …
Revolution and the form of the British novel, 1790–1825, intercepted letters, interrupted seductions
Ethnography and Oliver Sacks
(1999). Ethnography and Oliver Sacks: The anthropologist on Mars. Postcolonial Studies: Vol. 2, No. 3, pp. 389-402
Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time
Book Review| September 01 2000 Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time Jane Austen and the Fiction of her Time. By Waldron, Mary. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999. $49.95. 0-521-65130-1. John Wiltshire John Wiltshire La Trobe University, Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2000) 38 (1): 93–94. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-38.1.93 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitt…
Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
Book Review| September 01 2001 Lady Mary Wortley Montagu Lady Mary Wortley Montagu. By Grundy, Isobel. Oxford University Press. Oxford1999. Pp. 680. hc. 0-19-811289-0. John Wiltshire John Wiltshire La Trobe University, Melbourne Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google English Language Notes (2001) 39 (1): 84–87. https://doi.org/10.1215/00138282-39.1.84 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions…
A Life of James BoswellJohnson the Poet
Book Review| March 01 2002 A Life of James BoswellJohnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel JohnsonSamuel Johnson and the Culture of Property A Life of James Boswell. By Martin, Peter. New Haven and London: Yale University Press, 2000. Pp. 613. 0-300-08489-7.Johnson the Poet: The Poetic Career of Samuel Johnson. By Venturo, David P.. Newark: University Press of Delaware/London: Associated University Presses, 1999. Pp. 334. 0-87413-676-8.Samue…
The Effects of Socioeconomic Status on Participation in Care Among Middle-Aged and Older Adults
These findings underscore the importance of education in the acquisition and use of health information among middle-aged and older adults
Disentangling the Influence of Socioeconomic Status on Differences Between African American and White Women in Unmet Medical Needs
Objectives. We sought to disentangle the relationships between race/ethnicity, socioeconomic status (SES), and unmet medical care needs. Methods. Data from the 2003–2004 Community Tracking Study Household Survey were used to examine associations between unmet medical needs and SES among African American and White women. Results. No significant racial/ethnic differences in unmet medical needs (24.8% of Whites, 25.9% of African Americans; P = .59) …
Trust, Medication Adherence, and Hypertension Control in Southern African American Men
We examined the relationship between trust in the medical system, medication adherence, and hypertension control in Southern African American men. The sample included 235 African American men aged 18 years and older with hypertension. African American men with higher general trust in the medical system were more likely to report better medication adherence (odds ratio [OR] = 1.06), and those with higher self-efficacy were more likely to report be…
Health information seeking and use outside of the medical encounter
African American Men and Women’s Attitude Toward Mental Illness, Perceptions of Stigma, and Preferred Coping Behaviors
BACKGROUND: Although research focused on African Americans with mental illness has been increasing, few researchers have addressed gender and age differences in beliefs, attitudes, and coping. OBJECTIVE: The aim of this study was to examine African Americans' beliefs about mental illness, attitudes toward seeking mental health services, and preferred coping behaviors and whether these variables differ by gender and age. METHODS: An exploratory, c…
Medical Debt and Related Financial Consequences Among Older African American and White Adults
Objectives. To evaluate African American–White differences in medical debt among older adults and the extent to which economic and health factors explained these. Methods. We used nationally representative data from the 2007 and 2010 US Health Tracking Household Survey (n = 5838) and computed population-based estimates of medical debt attributable to economic and health factors with adjustment for age, gender, marital status, and education. Resul…
Differences in Problems Paying Medical Bills between African Americans and Whites from 2007 and 2009
Confidence in Understanding Health Insurance and Challenges Paying Medical Bills Among Men in the United States
Although the number of men with health insurance has increased, men are less likely to utilize health services than females, and experience difficulty in paying medical bills. Understanding the details of health insurance can be challenging and the lack of understanding can have financial consequences. This study, guided by Andersen’s model of health-care utilization, assessed the relationship between confidence level in understanding health insu…
Development of a health-related social need screener for adults soon to be, and recently released, from incarceration
BACKGROUND: A history of incarceration is associated with poor overall health and increased health care utilization and costs. The challenges facing people recently released from prison vary by age, gender, and reason for incarceration. Better identification and management of the needs facing this population is critical for both state departments of correction, tasked with ensuring effective re-entry into the community, and for the health care sy…
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