Shelley I White‐mean
Biographic Data
| ID | 3816004 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Shelley I White‐mean |
| GIVEN NAMES | Shelley I |
| FAMILY NAME | White‐mean |
| SIGNATURE | MEAN S I W |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee Health Science Center |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3212-8060 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 18 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 33 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1987 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
GIS Mapping and Breast Cancer Health Care Access Gaps for African American Women
Black women face an unequal opportunity to survive breast cancer compared with White women. One would expect that US metropolitan areas with high percentages of Black people should report similar racial disparities in breast health. Yet, this is not the case. To provide insights about breast cancer disparities in cities with above-average and below-average racial disparities, we use GIS analysis. We depict racial composition and income categories…
Evaluating the Potential Use of Smartphone Apps for Diabetes Self-Management in an Underserved Population: A Qualitative Approach
Health disparities cause a higher rate of diabetes development in poor and minority groups and also limit the care these people receive. Smartphone applications (apps) may be a low-cost, accessible resource to patients with diabetes who experience barriers to traditional health care. Currently, little is known about using health apps to help underserved patients in the United States. This study aimed to investigate the willingness to use diabetes…
The Organizational Impact of Presenteeism among Key Healthcare Workers due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
Who Can Help Us on This Journey? African American Woman with Breast Cancer: Living in a City with Extreme Health Disparities
This qualitative descriptive research study looks at the services that community-based breast cancer support agencies provide to underserved and African American women who are at risk for or diagnosed with breast cancer in Memphis, Tennessee. We seek their understanding of breast cancer mortality disparities in Memphis. Data were collected using semi-structured in-depth focus groups with five breast cancer support agencies. Categories and pattern…
Affordable Care Act and Disparities in Health Services Utilization among Ethnic Minority Breast Cancer Survivors: Evidence from Longitudinal Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys 2008–2015
Breast cancer is the most prevalent female cancer in the US. Incidence rates are similar for white and black women but mortality rates are higher for black women. This study draws on rich, nationally representative data, the 2008−2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys, to estimate effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on reducing disparities in and access to use of diagnostic and medical services for black and Hispanic breast cancer survivors.…
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient-Provider Communication With Breast Cancer Patients: Evidence From 2011 Meps and Experiences With Cancer Supplement
The current study explores racial/ethnic disparities in the quality of patient-provider communication during treatment, among breast cancer patients. A unique data set, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and Experiences With Cancer Supplement 2011, is used to examine this topic. Using measures of the quality of patient-provider communication that patients are best qualified to evaluate, we explore the relationship between race/ethnicity and patient…
African American Women: Surviving Breast Cancer Mortality against the Highest Odds
Among the country's 25 largest cities, the breast cancer mortality disparity is highest in Memphis, Tennessee, where African American women are twice as likely to die from breast cancer as White women. This qualitative study of African-American breast cancer survivors explores experiences during and post treatment that contributed to their beating the high odds of mortality. Using a semi-structured interview guide, a focus group session was held …
Exploring Mediators of Food Insecurity and Obesity: A Review of Recent Literature
Accessibility of antiretroviral therapy in Ghana: Convenience of access
The convenience of accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important for initial access to care and subsequent adherence to ART. We conducted a qualitative study of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and ART healthcare providers in Ghana in 2005. The objective of this study was to explore the participants' perceived convenience of accessing ART by PLWHA in Ghana. The convenience of accessing ART was evaluated from the reported travel and waiti…
Parent Caregiving Choices of Middle-Generation Blacks and Whites in the United States
The findings of this article indicate the importance of sample stratification by race and that employment or other subsidies may aid the expansion of caregiving by middle-generation adults
Racial Disparities in Health and Wealth: The Effects of Slavery and past Discrimination
Racial Patterns in Disabled Elderly Persons' Use of Medical Services
For reasons that are unrelated to financial assets, blacks remain vulnerable in their ability to access services commonly used by older persons. To remedy racial disparities in medical utilization, public policy must expand its focuses beyond health finance issues and consider differences in availability, accessibility, and acceptability
Opportunity Wages and Workforce Adjustments: Understanding the Cost of In-Home Elder Care
Time spent providing informal care represents a real cost to caregivers and potentially affects their decisions about alternative activities, including paid work. This study offers estimates of opportunity wages incurred by informal caregivers and explores the impact of these costs on their decisions to reduce or abandon workforce participation. We consider caregivers at two points in time: 1982 and 1989. Our estimates of caregivers' imputed wage…
The Gift of Chaos: An Opportunity for the Nation's Black Economists
This address presents a strategy for black economists, who can serve as catalysts for thoughtful discussions about future directions for our nation. The strategy is posed for two areas: health care and affirmative action policy
Health Care Use by Preschool Children: Effects of Maternal Occupation and Household Structure
This study examines the effects of a mother's occupation and the presence or absence of a father figure at home on the use of pediatric services by 5,611 preschool children. The children with the lowest number of physician visits are those whose mothers are employed in traditionally female‐specific occupations and who live in a household where afatherfigure is present. Health insurance, Medicaid, age and gender of child, number of siblings, mothe…
Economic Viability Among Post-Retirement Aged Women
Longer life expectancy has increased concern about living standards among elder women. This paper examines the relation between labor market status and living standard post-retirement. We use data from two national surveys to contrast economic circumstances of post-retirement aged and currently employed women. Financial resources of aged women and factors associated with their magnitude are identified. We examine current economic resources and em…
Sociodemographic Correlates of the size and composition of Informal Caregiver Networks among Frail Ethnic Elderly
Migrant Farmworker Earnings: A Human Capital Approach
Migrant farmworkers are essential to the supply of low-cost agricultural produce. However, employment earnings of this vital labor force are approximately equal to the federal poverty income. This study examines the role of health capital investments in enhancing farmworker productivity and employment earnings. Health capital investments are found to have a larger marginal effect on earnings than other forms of human capital investments, such as …
Racial Patterns in Disabled Elderly Persons' Use of Medical Services
For reasons that are unrelated to financial assets, blacks remain vulnerable in their ability to access services commonly used by older persons. To remedy racial disparities in medical utilization, public policy must expand its focuses beyond health finance issues and consider differences in availability, accessibility, and acceptability
Racial Disparities in Health and Wealth: The Effects of Slavery and past Discrimination
Parent Caregiving Choices of Middle-Generation Blacks and Whites in the United States
The findings of this article indicate the importance of sample stratification by race and that employment or other subsidies may aid the expansion of caregiving by middle-generation adults
Accessibility of antiretroviral therapy in Ghana: Convenience of access
The convenience of accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important for initial access to care and subsequent adherence to ART. We conducted a qualitative study of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and ART healthcare providers in Ghana in 2005. The objective of this study was to explore the participants' perceived convenience of accessing ART by PLWHA in Ghana. The convenience of accessing ART was evaluated from the reported travel and waiti…
Opportunity Wages and Workforce Adjustments: Understanding the Cost of In-Home Elder Care
Time spent providing informal care represents a real cost to caregivers and potentially affects their decisions about alternative activities, including paid work. This study offers estimates of opportunity wages incurred by informal caregivers and explores the impact of these costs on their decisions to reduce or abandon workforce participation. We consider caregivers at two points in time: 1982 and 1989. Our estimates of caregivers' imputed wage…
Health Care Use by Preschool Children: Effects of Maternal Occupation and Household Structure
This study examines the effects of a mother's occupation and the presence or absence of a father figure at home on the use of pediatric services by 5,611 preschool children. The children with the lowest number of physician visits are those whose mothers are employed in traditionally female‐specific occupations and who live in a household where afatherfigure is present. Health insurance, Medicaid, age and gender of child, number of siblings, mothe…
Migrant Farmworker Earnings: A Human Capital Approach
Migrant farmworkers are essential to the supply of low-cost agricultural produce. However, employment earnings of this vital labor force are approximately equal to the federal poverty income. This study examines the role of health capital investments in enhancing farmworker productivity and employment earnings. Health capital investments are found to have a larger marginal effect on earnings than other forms of human capital investments, such as …
Economic Viability Among Post-Retirement Aged Women
Longer life expectancy has increased concern about living standards among elder women. This paper examines the relation between labor market status and living standard post-retirement. We use data from two national surveys to contrast economic circumstances of post-retirement aged and currently employed women. Financial resources of aged women and factors associated with their magnitude are identified. We examine current economic resources and em…
Sociodemographic Correlates of the size and composition of Informal Caregiver Networks among Frail Ethnic Elderly
Health Care Use by Preschool Children: Effects of Maternal Occupation and Household Structure
This study examines the effects of a mother's occupation and the presence or absence of a father figure at home on the use of pediatric services by 5,611 preschool children. The children with the lowest number of physician visits are those whose mothers are employed in traditionally female‐specific occupations and who live in a household where afatherfigure is present. Health insurance, Medicaid, age and gender of child, number of siblings, mothe…
Opportunity Wages and Workforce Adjustments: Understanding the Cost of In-Home Elder Care
Time spent providing informal care represents a real cost to caregivers and potentially affects their decisions about alternative activities, including paid work. This study offers estimates of opportunity wages incurred by informal caregivers and explores the impact of these costs on their decisions to reduce or abandon workforce participation. We consider caregivers at two points in time: 1982 and 1989. Our estimates of caregivers' imputed wage…
The Gift of Chaos: An Opportunity for the Nation's Black Economists
This address presents a strategy for black economists, who can serve as catalysts for thoughtful discussions about future directions for our nation. The strategy is posed for two areas: health care and affirmative action policy
Racial Patterns in Disabled Elderly Persons' Use of Medical Services
For reasons that are unrelated to financial assets, blacks remain vulnerable in their ability to access services commonly used by older persons. To remedy racial disparities in medical utilization, public policy must expand its focuses beyond health finance issues and consider differences in availability, accessibility, and acceptability
Racial Disparities in Health and Wealth: The Effects of Slavery and past Discrimination
Parent Caregiving Choices of Middle-Generation Blacks and Whites in the United States
The findings of this article indicate the importance of sample stratification by race and that employment or other subsidies may aid the expansion of caregiving by middle-generation adults
Exploring Mediators of Food Insecurity and Obesity: A Review of Recent Literature
Accessibility of antiretroviral therapy in Ghana: Convenience of access
The convenience of accessing antiretroviral therapy (ART) is important for initial access to care and subsequent adherence to ART. We conducted a qualitative study of people living with HIV/AIDS (PLWHA) and ART healthcare providers in Ghana in 2005. The objective of this study was to explore the participants' perceived convenience of accessing ART by PLWHA in Ghana. The convenience of accessing ART was evaluated from the reported travel and waiti…
African American Women: Surviving Breast Cancer Mortality against the Highest Odds
Among the country's 25 largest cities, the breast cancer mortality disparity is highest in Memphis, Tennessee, where African American women are twice as likely to die from breast cancer as White women. This qualitative study of African-American breast cancer survivors explores experiences during and post treatment that contributed to their beating the high odds of mortality. Using a semi-structured interview guide, a focus group session was held …
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Patient-Provider Communication With Breast Cancer Patients: Evidence From 2011 Meps and Experiences With Cancer Supplement
The current study explores racial/ethnic disparities in the quality of patient-provider communication during treatment, among breast cancer patients. A unique data set, Medical Expenditure Panel Survey and Experiences With Cancer Supplement 2011, is used to examine this topic. Using measures of the quality of patient-provider communication that patients are best qualified to evaluate, we explore the relationship between race/ethnicity and patient…
Affordable Care Act and Disparities in Health Services Utilization among Ethnic Minority Breast Cancer Survivors: Evidence from Longitudinal Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys 2008–2015
Breast cancer is the most prevalent female cancer in the US. Incidence rates are similar for white and black women but mortality rates are higher for black women. This study draws on rich, nationally representative data, the 2008−2015 Medical Expenditure Panel Surveys, to estimate effects of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) on reducing disparities in and access to use of diagnostic and medical services for black and Hispanic breast cancer survivors.…
Who Can Help Us on This Journey? African American Woman with Breast Cancer: Living in a City with Extreme Health Disparities
This qualitative descriptive research study looks at the services that community-based breast cancer support agencies provide to underserved and African American women who are at risk for or diagnosed with breast cancer in Memphis, Tennessee. We seek their understanding of breast cancer mortality disparities in Memphis. Data were collected using semi-structured in-depth focus groups with five breast cancer support agencies. Categories and pattern…
Evaluating the Potential Use of Smartphone Apps for Diabetes Self-Management in an Underserved Population: A Qualitative Approach
Health disparities cause a higher rate of diabetes development in poor and minority groups and also limit the care these people receive. Smartphone applications (apps) may be a low-cost, accessible resource to patients with diabetes who experience barriers to traditional health care. Currently, little is known about using health apps to help underserved patients in the United States. This study aimed to investigate the willingness to use diabetes…
The Organizational Impact of Presenteeism among Key Healthcare Workers due to the Covid-19 Pandemic
GIS Mapping and Breast Cancer Health Care Access Gaps for African American Women
Black women face an unequal opportunity to survive breast cancer compared with White women. One would expect that US metropolitan areas with high percentages of Black people should report similar racial disparities in breast health. Yet, this is not the case. To provide insights about breast cancer disparities in cities with above-average and below-average racial disparities, we use GIS analysis. We depict racial composition and income categories…
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