Social Work - Faculty & Staff

Racial/ethnic differences in HIV testing: An application of the health services utilization model

Lo, Celia C.; Runnels, Ratonia C.; Cheng, Tyrone C. (SAGE Open Medicine, 2018-06)

This study applying the health services utilization model examined the importance of predisposing, enabling, and need variables to the social mechanisms explaining lifetime HIV testing across racial/ethnic groups. Data ...
Explaining immigrant health service utilization: A theoretical framework

Yang, Philip Q.; Hwang, Shann Hwa (Sage Open, 2016-05-16)

Although there is no paucity of theoretical frameworks for explaining people’s health service utilization (HSU), theoretical frameworks designed to account for variations in immigrants’ HSU remain underdeveloped. Building ...