Category Archives: Health

HEALTH CARE ACCESS: Homeschoolers and Health

Record: Alissa Cordner, “The Health Care Access and Utilization of Homeschooled Children in the United States” in Social Science and Medicine 75 (2012): 269-273. Summary: Cordner, a graduate student in sociology at Brown University, here offers her first foray into … Continue reading

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HOMESCHOOLING PARENTS: Practices and Beliefs about Vaccinations

Record: Elizabeth L. Thorpe, et al., “Homeschooling Parents’ Practices and Beliefs about Childhood Immunizations” in Vaccine, 30, no. 6 (February 2012): 1149-1153. Summary: This paper, written by a group of physicians and medical researchers, noting the rise both in occurrences … Continue reading

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