Special Libraries, May-June 1931

Volume 22, Issue 5https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1931/1004/thumbnail.jp

Health Care Coverage and Access for Children in Low-Income Families: Stakeholder Perspectives from Texas

An important question to ask about any health care system is how well it serves children in low-income families. In Texas, the question raises optimism as well as serious concerns. On one hand, the proportion of eligible Texas children enrolled in Medicaid or the Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) has increased from 75 percent in 2008 to 84 percent in 2013. The passage of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) in 2010 and the reauthorization of CHIP in 2015 helped to protect these gains. But significant uncertainties persist. Texas has not expanded Medicaid as envisioned by the ACA; the introduction of the federal health insurance Marketplace was highly contentious in thestate; and the U.S. Congress has funded CHIP only until 2017. Moreover, there is concern in Texas that access to high quality health care services for low-income children is not keeping pace with access to insurance. This issue brief was prepared as part of a small-scale qualitative study funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation to convey recent positive developments, remaining unmet needs, and emerging issues in children's health care coverage and delivery, from the perspective of knowledgeable stakeholders. Companion issue briefs on children's health in California and Colorado and a cross-state analysis are also available

Special Libraries, January 1932

Volume 23, Issue 1https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1932/1000/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, June 1923

Volume 14, Issue 5https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1923/1004/thumbnail.jp

A review of name-based ethnicity classification methods and their potential in population studies

Several approaches have been proposed to classify populations into ethnic groups using people's names, as an alternative to ethnicity self-identification information when this is not available. These methodologies have been developed, primarily in the public health and population genetics literature in different countries, in isolation from and with little participation from demographers or social scientists. The objective of this paper is to bring together these isolated efforts and provide a coherent comparison, a common methodology and terminology in order to foster new research and applications in this promising and multidisciplinary field. A systematic review has been conducted of the most representative studies that develop new name-based ethnicity classifications, extracting methodological commonalities, achievements and shortcomings; 13 studies met the inclusion criteria and all followed a very similar methodology to create a name reference list with which to classify populations into a few most common ethnic groups. The different classifications' sensitivity varies between 0.67 and 0.95, their specificity between 0.80 and 1, their positive predicted value between 0.70 and 0.96, and their negative predicted value between 0.96 and 1. Name-based ethnicity classification systems have a great potential to overcome data scarcity issues in a wide variety of key topics in population studies, as is proved by the 13 papers analysed. Their current limitations are mainly due to a restricted number of names and a partial spatio-temporal coverage of the reference population data-sets used to produce name reference lists. Improved classifications with extensive population coverage and higher classification accuracy levels will be achieved by using population registers with wider spatio-temporal coverage. Furthermore, there is a requirement for such new classifications to include all of the potential ethnic groups present in a society, and not just one or a few of them. Copyright (c) 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

Special Libraries, October 1930

Volume 21, Issue 8https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1930/1007/thumbnail.jp

Special Libraries, July-August 1953

Volume 44, Issue 6https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1953/1005/thumbnail.jp

Sex as a Variable: A Bibliography of Women in Libraries 1975-1985

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Special Libraries, July-August 1953

Volume 44, Issue 6https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/sla_sl_1953/1005/thumbnail.jp