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    Opportunities for Positive Youth Development: The Organized Activity Participation and Educational Outcomes of Adolescents in Adoptive, Foster, and Kinship Care

    Children who grow up outside the care of their biological parents—e.g., those in adoptive, foster, or kinship (AFK) care—experience poorer educational outcomes than their peers. However, the protective factors...

    Ryan D. Heath, Keunhye Park in Child and Adolescent Social Work Journal (2023)

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    Correction to: Patterns of School Victimization and Problem Behaviors: Longitudinal Associations with Socioeconomic Well-Being and Criminal Justice Involvement

    Ryan D. Heath, Kevin Tan, Jennifer S. Guzzy, Briyana Henry in Child & Youth Care Forum (2022)

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    Patterns of School Victimization and Problem Behaviors: Longitudinal Associations with Socioeconomic Well-Being and Criminal Justice Involvement

    Middle school victimization and problem behaviors often co-occur, but little is known about patterns of co-occurrence, or how long effects persist into adulthood.

    Ryan D. Heath, Kevin Tan, Jennifer S. Guzzy, Briyana Henry in Child & Youth Care Forum (2022)

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    Disclosure of Sexual Identities Across Social-Relational Contexts: Findings from a National Sample of Black Sexual Minority Men

    Black sexual minority men (BSMM) in the USA navigate a range of factors that may influence the extent to which they disclose or conceal their sexual identity in various social contexts. To date, few studies ha...

    Lance C. Keene, Ryan D. Heath, Alida Bouris in Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Dispar… (2022)

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    HIV-HBV Co-infection, Clinical Concerns

    result in chronic disease states resulting in clinical concerns both acute and chronic. There is no cure for either virus and both require chronic medication which can present challenges in terms of disease...

    Ryan D. Heath, Ali Syed, Suha Abu Khalaf in Human Viruses: Diseases, Treatments and Va… (2021)

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    Natural History of Hepatitis B Virus

    Chronic HBV infection is a worldwide public health issue with an estimated 400 million persons infected. Variations in both epidemiology and genotype have been noted to affect the course and severity of sequel...

    Ryan D. Heath, Veysel Tahan in Viral Hepatitis: Chronic Hepatitis B (2018)

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    On the Meaning of Grit…and Hope…and Fate Control…and Alienation…and Locus of Control…and…Self-Efficacy…and…Effort Optimism…and…

    After a long period of emphasis on academic skills, researchers have recently shown growing interest in the importance of noncognitive skills as drivers of life outcomes for poor children. “Grit” and “hope” a...

    Charity Anderson, Ashley Cureton Turner, Ryan D. Heath in The Urban Review (2016)