Predictors of access to health-care services among groups of TANF recipients in Kentucky
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The determinants of health-care access among welfare recipients in Kentucky are reported by focusing on predisposing, enabling and need factors. The results have indicated that independent predictors of access problems included lack of health insurance, leaving welfare before reaching the time limit, financial stress, food insecurity, chronic illness, and poor or fair perceived mental health status.
Publication Name: Social Service Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0037-7961
Year: 2006
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Determinants of TANF participation: a multilevel analysis
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The article investigates the role of state policies and local economic opportunities as determinants of individuals' welfare participation in the context of the Personal Responsibility and Work Opportunity Reconciliation Act of 1996 (PRWORA). Results show that one-quarter of the between-city variance in Temporary Assistance for Needy Families participation is accounted by individual-level factors.
Publication Name: Social Service Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0037-7961
Year: 2007
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Devolution, discretion, and the effect of local political values on TANF sanctioning
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The devolution of policy-making authority from federal government and states to local governments and frontline workers was done without giving enough attention to the local political context is presented. Results found that political values that prevail in local environments matter for the frequency and incidence of sanctioning.
Publication Name: Social Service Review
Subject: Social sciences
ISSN: 0037-7961
Year: 2007
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