Carolyn M Garcia
Biographic Data
| ID | 169739 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Carolyn M Garcia |
| GIVEN NAMES | Carolyn M |
| FAMILY NAME | Garcia |
| SIGNATURE | GARCIA C M |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 31 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 4 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Barriers to Care in an Ethnically Diverse Publicly Insured Population
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act provides for the expansion of Medicaid, which may result in as many as 16 million people gaining health insurance coverage. Yet it is unclear to what extent this coverage expansion will meaningfully increase access to health care. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to identify barriers that may persist even after individuals are moved to insurance and to explore racial/ethnic variation in problems access…
It's Called “Going Out to Play”
How do Hmong immigrant adolescent girls decide to run away, return home, leave again, or stay home? Video diaries by 11 sexually exploited runaway Hmong girls, ages 13-16, revealed four themes: "fighting restrictions," or resisting family and cultural expectations and desires to be like other American teens; "not running away, going out to play," which captured impulsive decision making; "unrestrained partying," which described runaway experience…
Health Care Reform and Young Adults' Access to Sexual Health Care
One provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act is extension of dependent coverage for young adults aged up to 26 years on their parent’s private insurance plan. This change, meant to increase insurance coverage for young adults, might yield unintended consequences. Confidentiality concerns may be triggered by coverage through parental insurance, particularly regarding sexual health. The existing literature and our original research suggest that ac…
Conducting Go-Along Interviews to Understand Context and Promote Health
Go-along interviewing is an innovative approach to obtaining contextualized perspectives by conducting mobile interviews in which the participant acts as a navigational guide of the real or virtual space within which he or she lives. In this study, we used go-along interviews to obtain college students' contextualized perceptions of sexual health resources. Seventy-eight undergraduate students showed and described the resources on and near five c…
Conducting Go-Along Interviews to Understand Context and Promote Health
Go-along interviewing is an innovative approach to obtaining contextualized perspectives by conducting mobile interviews in which the participant acts as a navigational guide of the real or virtual space within which he or she lives. In this study, we used go-along interviews to obtain college students' contextualized perceptions of sexual health resources. Seventy-eight undergraduate students showed and described the resources on and near five c…
Health Care Reform and Young Adults' Access to Sexual Health Care
One provision of the 2010 Affordable Care Act is extension of dependent coverage for young adults aged up to 26 years on their parent’s private insurance plan. This change, meant to increase insurance coverage for young adults, might yield unintended consequences. Confidentiality concerns may be triggered by coverage through parental insurance, particularly regarding sexual health. The existing literature and our original research suggest that ac…
Conducting Go-Along Interviews to Understand Context and Promote Health
Go-along interviewing is an innovative approach to obtaining contextualized perspectives by conducting mobile interviews in which the participant acts as a navigational guide of the real or virtual space within which he or she lives. In this study, we used go-along interviews to obtain college students' contextualized perceptions of sexual health resources. Seventy-eight undergraduate students showed and described the resources on and near five c…
It's Called “Going Out to Play”
How do Hmong immigrant adolescent girls decide to run away, return home, leave again, or stay home? Video diaries by 11 sexually exploited runaway Hmong girls, ages 13-16, revealed four themes: "fighting restrictions," or resisting family and cultural expectations and desires to be like other American teens; "not running away, going out to play," which captured impulsive decision making; "unrestrained partying," which described runaway experience…
Barriers to Care in an Ethnically Diverse Publicly Insured Population
BACKGROUND: The Affordable Care Act provides for the expansion of Medicaid, which may result in as many as 16 million people gaining health insurance coverage. Yet it is unclear to what extent this coverage expansion will meaningfully increase access to health care. OBJECTIVE: The objective of the study was to identify barriers that may persist even after individuals are moved to insurance and to explore racial/ethnic variation in problems access…
Political science (4 works) · Medicine (3 works) · Environmental health (2 works) · Family medicine (2 works) · Health care (2 works) · Healthcare Policy and Management (2 works) · Law (2 works) · Nursing (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public health (2 works)