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Predicting Mental Health Care Enrollment and Treatment Uptake among Newly Arrived Refugees in U.S. Resettlement Programs Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-15 Aimee Hilado, Melissa Bond, Elizabeth Sanchez
This article examines variables that predict mental health care enrollment and engagement among refugees. The authors explore a mental health care model designed to identify mental health needs early among refugee arrivals that may interfere with adjustment and overall health outcomes using data from a Midwest refugee resettlement program. Using ecological models of mental distress and theories on
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Stability and Volatility in the Contextual Predictors of Working-Age Mortality in the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-14 Jennifer Karas Montez, Shannon M. Monnat, Emily E. Wiemers, Douglas A. Wolf, Xue Zhang
The contextual predictors of mortality in the United States are well documented, but the COVID-19 pandemic may have upended those associations. Informed by the social history of disease framework (SHDF), this study examined how the importance of county contexts on adult deaths from all causes, drug poisonings, and COVID-19-related causes fluctuated during the pandemic. Using 2018 to 2021 vital statistics
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The Uterus Keeps the Score: Black Women Academics’ Insights and Coping with Uterine Fibroids Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-07 Bridget J. Goosby, Rachelle Winkle-Wagner, Amy Zhang
Few studies examine how high-achieving Black women navigate chronic reproductive health morbidities. Black women are disproportionately more likely to experience uterine fibroids, with earlier onset and more severe symptoms. This study leverages a national mixed-methods data set of Black women academics to examine how they describe symptomatic fibroids impacting their careers and lives. We find that
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Debt Collection Pressure and Mental Health: Evidence from a Cohort of U.S. Young Adults Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-09-04 Alec P. Rhodes, Rachel E. Dwyer, Jason N. Houle
The debt collection industry in the United States has grown in tandem with rising indebtedness. Prior research on debt and mental health mainly treats debt as a resource and liability rather than a power relationship between creditors and debtors. We study the mental health consequences of debt collection pressure using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-1997 Cohort (N = 7,236). Drawing
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Policy Brief Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-19 Margot Moinester, Kaitlyn K. Stanhope
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Patient-Centered Care in Action: How Clinicians Respond to Patient Dissatisfaction with Contraceptive Side Effects Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-06 Sara Johnsen
Patient-centered care is widely cited as a component of quality contraceptive health care, but its operationalization in clinical interaction is contested. This article examines patient-centered care as an interactional phenomenon using the case of patient dissatisfaction with side effects of hormonal contraceptive medications. Drawing on transcript data from 109 tape-recorded reproductive health visits
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Painful Subjects, Desiring Relief: Experiencing and Governing Pain in a Medical Cannabis Program Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-08-01 Ryan T. Steel
Cannabis can provide patients benefits for pain and symptom management, improve their functionality, and enhance their well-being. Yet restrictive medical cannabis programs can limit these potential benefits. This article draws on four years of research into Minnesota’s medical cannabis program—one of the most restrictive in the United States—including in-depth interviews with patients and a survey
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Marked by Association(s): A Social Network Approach to Investigating Mental Health-Related Associative Stigma Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Elizabeth Felix
With most scholarly attention directed toward understanding the stigma experiences of individuals with mental illness, less attention has been given to associative stigma: an understudied form of social exclusion and devaluation experienced by the social ties of stigmatized individuals. This study advances scholarly understanding of associative stigma by drawing on social network methods to better
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Resilience or Risk? Evaluating Three Pathways Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Caroline V. Brooks
There are competing perspectives on the impact of Hispanic immigrants’ social networks on health; the Hispanic health paradox views networks as sources of resilience, whereas the tenuous ties perspective views networks as sources of risk. In this study, I explore the effect of networks on health by examining three network pathways: social capital, social bonding, and network stress. Using egocentric
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Work–Family Life Course Trajectories and Women’s Mental Health: The Moderating Role of Defamilization Policies in 15 European Territories Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-31 Ariel Azar
This study employs multichannel sequence analysis of data from the Survey of Health, Ageing, and Retirement in Europe to explore variations in the association between work–family life trajectories and women’s mental health across European cohorts born between 1924 and 1965 within different policy contexts. It finds that trajectories characterized by prolonged employment and delayed familial commitments
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Racial Capitalism and Black–White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-30 Reed T. DeAngelis
Scholars cite racist political-economic systems as drivers of health inequities in the United States (i.e., racial capitalism). But how does racial capitalism generate health inequities? I address this open question within the historical context of predatory lending during the 2008 financial crisis. Relevant hypotheses are tested with multiple waves of data from Black and White participants of the
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Second-Class Care: How Immigration Law Transforms Clinical Practice in the Safety Net Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-07-27 Meredith Van Natta
This article examines how U.S. immigration law extends into the health care safety net, enacting medical legal violence that diminishes noncitizens’ health chances and transforms clinical practices. Drawing on interviews with health care workers in three U.S. states from 2015 to 2020, I ask how federal citizenship-based exclusions within an already stratified health care system shape the clinical trajectories
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For Whom Does Education Convey Health Benefits? A Two-Generation and Life Course Approach. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-04 Liying Luo,Lai Wei
Scholars of social determinants of health have long been interested in how parent's and own education influence health. However, the differing effects of parent's and own education on health-that is, for what socioeconomic group education conveys health benefits-are relatively less studied. Using multilevel marginal structural models, we estimate the heterogeneous effects of parent's and own education
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Providing Health Care and Social Support during Economic Crises: Lessons Learned from "Solidarity Outpatient Clinics" in Greece during the Great Recession. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-06-03 Matthew D Matsaganis,Maria Petraki,Vassia Karanatsiou
"Solidarity outpatient clinics" (SOCs) emerged in Greece as a novel community-based health care resource during the global economic crisis that started in 2008. They have provided crucial social support to diverse vulnerable populations. Solidarity is a critical organizational principle underlying SOCs' operation. It is juxtaposed to charity to emphasize, among other things, building symmetrical relationships
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Bringing the Global into Medical Sociology: Medicalization, Narrative, and Global Health Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-13 Susan E. Bell
Medical sociologists have much to gain by bringing in global health. In this article, I make the case for expanding our field by furthering sociological perspectives on global health. I reflect on my career, the influence of scholar-activist mentors, and my contributions to the development of scholarship about medicalization, narrative, and global health in medical sociology. First, I focus on medicalization
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Policy Brief Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-05-08 Xiaowen Han, Tom VanHeuvelen, Jeylan T. Mortimer, Zachary Parolin
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Mothering While Sick: Poor Maternal Health and the Educational Attainment of Young Adults Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Shannon Cavanagh, Athena Owirodu, Lindsay Bing
At a time when educational attainment in young adulthood forecasts long-term trajectories of economic mobility, better health, and stable partnership, there is more pressure on mothers to provide labor and support to advance their children’s interests in the K–12 system. As a result, poor health among mothers when children are growing up may interfere with how far they progress educationally. Applying
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Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Erin Manalo-Pedro, Laura E. Enriquez, Jennifer R. Nájera, Annie Ro
Restrictive immigration policies harm the mental health of undocumented immigrants and their U.S. citizen family members. As a sociopolitical stressor, threat to family due to immigration policy can heighten anxiety, yet it is unclear whether political engagement helps immigrant-origin students to cope. We used a cross-sectional survey of college students from immigrant families (N = 2,511) to investigate
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The Intergenerational Transmission of Health Disadvantage: Can Education Disrupt It? Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-29 Emily Smith-Greenaway, Yingyi Lin, Abigail Weitzman
In low-income countries, intergenerational processes can culminate in the replication of extreme forms of health disadvantage between mothers and adult daughters, including experiencing a young child’s death. The preventable nature of most child deaths raises questions of whether social resources can protect women from enduring this adversity like their mothers. This study examined whether education—widely
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Sameness across Difference: A Postcolonial Feminist Analysis of Gender-Affirming Health Care in Thailand and the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-04-18 Alyssa Lynne-Joseph
Joining a growing body of research calling for the integration of social analysis and postcolonial theory, recent work in medical sociology has analyzed health, illness, and medicine from a postcolonial lens. In this article, I argue for a postcolonial feminist approach to medical sociology that builds on this extant work while challenging methodological nationalism and cultural essentialism. Based
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Race and Place Matter: Inequity in Prenatal Care for Reservation-Dwelling American Indian People Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-28 Maggie L. Thorsen, Janelle F. Palacios
Early initiation and consistent use of prenatal care is linked with improved health outcomes. American Indian birthing people have higher rates of inadequate prenatal care (IPNC), but limited research has examined IPNC among people living on American Indian reservations. The current study uses birth certificate data from the state of Montana (n = 57,006) to examine predictors of IPNC. Data on the community
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Beyond Acculturation: Health and Immigrants’ Social Integration in the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Rama M. Hagos, Tod G. Hamilton
Immigrants typically have more favorable health outcomes than their U.S.-born counterparts of the same race-ethnicity. However, little is known about how race-ethnicity and region of birth moderate the health outcomes of different immigrant groups as their tenure of U.S. residence increases. We study the association between time spent in the United States and health outcomes among non-Hispanic Black
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Socioeconomic-Status-Based Disrespect, Discrimination, Exclusion, and Shaming: A Potential Source of Health Inequalities? Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-16 Bruce G. Link, San Juanita García, Rengin Firat, Shayna La Scalla, Jo C. Phelan
Observing an association between socioeconomic status (SES) and health reliably leads to the question, “What are the pathways involved?” Despite enormous investment in research on the characteristics, behaviors, and traits of people disadvantaged with respect to health inequalities, the issue remains unresolved. We turn our attention to actions of more advantaged groups by asking people to self-report
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Racializing Motherhood and Maternity Care in News Representations of Breastfeeding Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-03-06 Shannon K. Carter, Sanya Bansal
Racial inequalities in breastfeeding have been a U.S. national concern, prompting health science research and public discourse. Social science research reveals structural causes, including racism in labor conditions, maternity care practices, and lactation support. Yet research shows that popular and health science discourses disproportionately focus on individual and community factors, blaming Black
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Cumulative Disadvantage or Strained Advantage? Remote Schooling, Paid Work Status, and Parental Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-27 Mieke Beth Thomeer, Mia Brantley, Rin Reczek
During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents experienced difficulties around employment and children’s schooling, likely with detrimental mental health implications. We analyze National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 data (N = 2,829) to estimate depressive symptom changes from 2019 to 2021 by paid work status and children’s schooling modality, considering partnership status, gender, and race-ethnicity
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Extending Driver’s Licenses to Undocumented Immigrants: Comparing Perinatal Outcomes Following This Policy Shift Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-26 Margot Moinester, Kaitlyn K. Stanhope
Research shows that restrictive immigration policies and practices are associated with poor health, but far less is known about the relationship between inclusive immigration policies and health. Using data from the United States natality files, we estimate associations between state laws granting undocumented immigrants access to driver’s licenses and perinatal outcomes among 4,047,067 singleton births
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Analyzing the Impact of Family Structure Changes on Children’s Stress Levels Using a Stress Biomarker Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-10 Pauline Kleinschlömer, Mine Kühn, Lara Bister, Tobias C. Vogt, Sandra Krapf
Changes in family structure (e.g., parental separation or stepfamily formation) are associated with a deterioration in children’s well-being. Most researchers have focused on the impact of such changes on children’s educational and psychosocial outcomes, whereas the effects on children’s biological processes have been studied less often. We analyze the effects of changes in family structure on children’s
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Structural Racism and Health Stratification: Connecting Theory to Measurement Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-02-03 Tyson H. Brown, Patricia Homan
Less than 1% of studies on racialized health inequities have empirically examined their root cause: structural racism. Moreover, there has been a disconnect between the conceptualization and measurement of structural racism. This study advances the field by (1) distilling central tenets of theories of structural racism to inform measurement approaches, (2) conceptualizing U.S. states as racializing
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Transitory or Chronic? Gendered Loneliness Trajectories over Widowhood and Separation in Older Age Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Nicole Kapelle, Christiaan Monden
We investigate how loneliness develops over the marital dissolution process in older age (i.e., transition at or after age 50) while paying close attention to heterogeneities by the dissolution pathway—widowhood and separation—and gender. Using data from over 8,000 Household, Income and Labour Dynamics in Australia survey respondents, we assess the association of interest using fixed effects regressions
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“Pills Don’t Teach Skills”: ADHD Coaching, Identity Work, and the Push toward the Liminal Medicalization of ADHD Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Meredith Bergey
Despite physicians’ near monopoly over medicalization historically, various stakeholder groups shape an increasingly complex process today. This study examines a relatively new initiative, “health coaching,” within the context of the changing nature of medicalization. Utilizing 51 in-depth interviews with attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) coaches, participant observation from seven ADHD
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Upward Mobility Context and Health Outcomes and Behaviors during Transition to Adulthood: The Intersectionality of Race and Sex Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-27 Emma Zang, Melissa Tian
This study investigates how upward mobility context affects health during transition to adulthood and its variations by race and sex. Using county-level upward mobility measures and data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics, we apply propensity score weighting techniques to examine these relationships. Results show that low upward mobility context increases the likelihood of poor self-rated health
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Institutional Failures as Structural Determinants of Suicide: The Opioid Epidemic and the Great Recession in the United States Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-18 Daniel H. Simon, Ryan K. Masters
We investigate recent trends in U.S. suicide mortality using a “structural determinants of health” framework. We access restricted-use multiple cause of death files to track suicide rates among U.S. Black, White, American Indian/Alaska Native, and Latino/a men and women between 1990 and 2017. We examine suicide deaths separately by poisonings and nonpoisonings to illustrate that (1) women’s suicide
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Strategic (Non)Disclosure: Activation and Avoidance of Social Ties among Women Seeking Abortion Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-17 Kathleen Broussard
The increased politicization of sexual and reproductive health has created barriers to medically necessary care. In absence of formal health care, social ties become critical sources of information and resources, yet the disclosure of stigmatized health needs carries significant risk. How do people navigate the risks and benefits of disclosure when seeking care for stigmatized needs? Drawing on original
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How Housing, Employment, and Legal Precarity Affect the Sleep of Migrant Workers: A Mixed-Methods Study Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2024-01-09 Sergio Chávez, Robert Bozick, Jing Li
In the United States, natural disasters have increased in frequency and intensity, causing significant damage to communities, infrastructure, and human life. Migrant workers form part of a growing occupational group that rebuilds in the aftermath of natural disasters like hurricanes and tornadoes. The work these migrant workers perform is essential but also unstable, exploitative, and dangerous, which
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Lifetimes of Vulnerability: Childhood Adversity, Poor Adult Health, and the Criminal Legal System. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-12-30 LeShae Henderson
On average, incarcerated people have higher rates of poor health, mental illness, and histories of adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) than the general population. This mixed-methods analysis examines the relationship between ACEs and poor adult health among a sample of formerly incarcerated people. The quantitative analysis (N = 122) shows childhood adversity is associated with various health conditions
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High-Stakes Treatment Negotiations Gone Awry: The Importance of Interactions for Understanding Treatment Advocacy and Patient Resistance. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Alexandra Tate,Karen Lutfey Spencer
Doctors (and sociologists) have a long history of struggling to understand why patients seek medical help yet resist treatment recommendations. Explanations for resistance have pointed to macrostructural changes, such as the rise of the engaged patient or decline of physician authority. Rather than assuming that concepts such as resistance, authority, or engagement are exogenous phenomena transmitted
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Health Care Stereotype Threat and Sexual and Gender Minority Well-Being. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 R Kyle Saunders,Dawn C Carr,Amy M Burdette
Sexual and gender minorities (SGMs) have experienced progressive change over the last 50 years. However, this group still reports worse health and health care experiences. An innovative survey instrument that applies stereotype threat to the health care setting, health care stereotype threat (HCST), offers a new avenue to examine these disparities. We harmonized two national probability data sets of
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Cumulative Unionization and Physical Health Disparities among Older Adults. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Xiaowen Han,Tom VanHeuvelen,Jeylan T Mortimer,Zachary Parolin
Whereas previous research shows that union membership is associated with improved health, static measurements have been used to test dynamic theories linking the two. We construct a novel measure of cumulative unionization, tracking individuals across their entire careers, to examine health consequences in older adulthood. We use data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (1970-2019) and predict
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Invoking Uncertainty: Parents' Accounts for Intrusions on Medical Authority in Pediatric Neurology. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Keith Cox
In pediatric medical visits, parents may assume the role of co-caregiver with clinicians. At times, parents challenge physicians' authority to determine diagnoses and treatments for their children. The present study uses conversation analysis to examine parents' accounts for their intrusions on medical authority in a corpus of 35 video-recorded pediatric neurology visits for overnight video-electroencephalogram
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Hurt on Both Sides: Political Differences in Health and Well-Being during the COVID-19 Pandemic. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-21 Max E Coleman,Matthew A Andersson
Republicans and conservatives report better self-rated health and well-being compared to Democrats and liberals, yet they are more likely to reside in geographic areas with heavy COVID-19 morbidity and mortality. This harmed health on "both sides" of political divides, occurring in a time of rapid sociopolitical upheaval, warrants the revisiting of psychosocial mechanisms linked to political health
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COVID-19's Unequal Toll: Differences in Health-Related Quality of Life by Gendered and Racialized Groups. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Konrad Franco,Caitlin Patler,Whitney Laster Pirtle
We examine whether the COVID-19 pandemic was associated with changes to daily activity limitations due to poor physical or mental health and whether those changes were different within and between gendered and racialized groups. We analyze 497,302 observations across the 2019 and 2020 waves of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey. Among White
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Peeking under the Hood of Job Stress: How Men and Women's Stress Levels Vary by Typologies of Job Quality and Family Composition. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Grace Venechuk
Changes to work and family norms and polices over the last several decades have reshaped both the job quality and the nature of job and family formation in the United States. Neoliberal policies have generated a slew of flexible but precarious working conditions; labor force participation is now the modal path for all genders regardless of parental or marital status. Leveraging data on 3,419 working
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Sleep Duration Differences by Education from Middle to Older Adulthood: Does Employment Stratification Contribute to Gendered Leveling? Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-10-13 Jess M Meyer
Sleep duration changes across the life course and differs by education in the United States. However, little research has examined whether educational differences in sleep duration change over age-or whether sleep duration trajectories over age differ by education. This study uses a life course approach to analyze American Time Use Survey data (N = 60,908), examining how educational differences in
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Unpacking Intersectional Inequities in Flu Vaccination by Sexuality, Gender, and Race-Ethnicity in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Ning Hsieh
Health care research has long overlooked the intersection of multiple social inequalities. This study examines influenza vaccination inequities at the intersection of sexuality, gender, and race-ethnicity. Using data from the 2013 to 2018 National Health Interview Survey (N = 166,908), the study shows that sexual, gender, and racial-ethnic identities jointly shaped flu vaccination. Specifically, White
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The Mental "Weight" of Discrimination: The Relationship between Perceived Interpersonal Weight Discrimination and Suicidality in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-30 Carlyn E Graham,Michelle L Frisco
Extant research has investigated the relationship between body weight and suicidality because obesity is highly stigmatized, leading to social marginalization and discrimination, yet has produced mixed results. Scholars have speculated that factors associated with body weight, such as weight discrimination, may better predict suicidality than body weight itself. We consider this possibility among a
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Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-09-07 Emily C Dore,Surbhi Shrivastava,Patricia Homan
Preventive health care use can reduce the risk of disease, disability, and death. Thus, it is critical to understand factors that shape preventive care use. A growing body of research identifies structural sexism as a driver of population health, but it remains unknown if structural sexism is linked to preventive care use and, if so, whether the relationship differs for women and men. Gender performance
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Analysis of Sex-Specific Gene-by-Cohort and Genetic Correlation-by-Cohort Interaction in Educational and Reproductive Outcomes Using the UK Biobank Data. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Boyan Zheng,Jason M Fletcher,Jie Song,Qiongshi Lu
Synthesizing prior gene-by-cohort (G×C) interaction studies, we theorize that changes in genetic effects by social conditions depend on the level of resource constraints, the distribution and use of resources, structural constraints, and constraints on individual choice. Motivated by the theory, we explored several sex-specific G×C trends across a set of outcomes using 30 birth cohorts of UK Biobank
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Racing the Machine: Data Analytic Technologies and Institutional Inscription of Racialized Health Injustice. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-08-12 Taylor Marion Cruz
Recent scientific and policy initiatives frame clinical settings as sites for intervening upon inequality. Electronic health records and data analytic technologies offer opportunity to record standard data on education, employment, social support, and race-ethnicity, and numerous audiences expect biomedicine to redress social determinants based on newly available data. However, little is known on how
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"I Love You to Death": Social Networks and the Widowhood Effect on Mortality. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Benjamin Cornwell,Tianyao Qu
Research on "the widowhood effect" shows that mortality rates are greater among people who have recently lost a spouse. There are several medical and psychological explanations for this (e.g., "broken heart syndrome") and sociological explanations that focus on spouses' shared social-environmental exposures. We expand on sociological perspectives by arguing that couples' social connections to others
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A Matter of Time: Racialized Time and the Production of Health Disparities. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-28 Cynthia G Colen,Kelsey J Drotning,Liana C Sayer,Bruce Link
An expansive and methodologically varied literature designed to investigate racial disparities in health now exists. Empirical evidence points to an overlapping, complex web of social conditions that accelerate the pace of aging and erodes long-term health outcomes among people of color, especially Black Americans. However, a social exposure-or lack thereof-that is rarely mentioned is time use. The
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Painful Feelings: Opioids as Tools for Avoiding Emotional Labor in Hospital Work. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-23 Alexandra Brewer
How do clinicians manage the negative emotions that emerge when hospital patients are dissatisfied with their pain treatment? Drawing on a 21-month hospital ethnography, I show that clinicians view opioids as tools that can allow them to avoid engaging in emotional labor with dissatisfied pain patients. I detail two different strategies that clinicians pursued. Through permissive prescription, clinicians
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The Buffering Effect of State Eviction and Foreclosure Policies for Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-19 Courtney E Boen,Lisa A Keister,Christina M Gibson-Davis,Anneliese Luck
The COVID-19 pandemic spurred an economic downturn that may have eroded population mental health, especially for renters and homeowners who experienced financial hardship and were at risk of housing loss. Using household-level data from the Census Bureau's Household Pulse Survey (n = 805,223; August 2020-August 2021) and state-level data on eviction/foreclosure bans, we estimated linear probability
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Black Mothers' Concern for Their Children as a Measure of Vicarious Racism-Related Vigilance and Allostatic Load. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-18 Kathryn P Daniels,Marilyn D Thomas,David H Chae,Amani M Allen
This study investigates the relationship between allostatic load and a novel form of altruistic racism-related fear, or concern for how racism might harm another, which we term vicarious racism-related vigilance. Using a subsample of Black mothers from the African American Women's Heart & Health Study (N = 140), which includes detailed health and survey data on a community sample of Black women in
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The Role of Infant Health Problems in Constraining Interneighborhood Mobility: Implications for Citywide Employment Networks. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-04 Megan Evans,Corina Graif,Stephen A Matthews
Infant health problems are a persistent concern across the United States, disproportionally affecting socioeconomically vulnerable communities. We investigate how inequalities in infant health contribute to differences in interneighborhood commuting mobility and shape neighborhoods' embeddedness in the citywide structure of employment networks in Chicago over a 14-year period. We use the Census Bureau's
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The Power of Self-Labels: Examining Self-Esteem Consequences for Youth with Mental Health Problems. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Lexi Harari,Sharon S Oselin,Bruce G Link
New evidence on a classic sociological debate allows for a test of the consequences of self-labeling with mental illness. While a medicalized "insight" perspective emphasizes the importance of self-labeling for psychological well-being and recovery, a sociologically informed "outsight" perspective draws from modified labeling, self-labeling, and stigma resistance theories to suggest that self-labeling
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State of Confusion: Ohio's Restrictive Abortion Landscape and the Production of Uncertainty in Reproductive Health Care. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Danielle Czarnecki,Danielle Bessett,Hillary J Gyuras,Alison H Norris,Michelle L McGowan
This study examines an underexplored source of medical uncertainty: the political context of care. Since 2011, Ohio has passed over 16 abortion-restrictive laws. We know little about how this legislation affects reproductive health care outside of abortion clinics. Drawing on focus groups and interviews with genetic counselors and obstetrician-gynecologists, we examine how abortion legislation impacts
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Black-White Differences in Offspring Educational Attainment and Older Parents' Dementia. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-06-02 Jenjira J Yahirun,Sindhu Vasireddy,Mark D Hayward
Emerging research documents the health benefits of having highly educated adult offspring. Yet less is known about whether those advantages vary across racial groups. This study examines how offspring education is tied to parents' dementia risk for Black and White parents in the United States. Using data from the Health and Retirement Study, findings suggest that children's education does not account
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"It Wasn't Very Public-Clinicy": Client Experiences at Faith-Based Pregnancy Centers. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Kendra Hutchens
Faith-based pregnancy centers strive to offer "alternatives to abortion" that supporters claim aid women and critics assert manipulate pregnant people, stigmatize abortion, and potentially delay clients from obtaining medical care. However, scholars know little about the exchanges within appointments and how clients make sense of these experiences. Drawing on ethnographic observations of client appointments
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Immigration-Related Discrimination and Mental Health among Latino Undocumented Students and U.S. Citizen Students with Undocumented Parents: A Mixed-Methods Investigation. Journal of Health and Social Behavior (IF 6.3) Pub Date : 2023-05-24 Victoria E Rodriguez,Laura E Enriquez,Annie Ro,Cecilia Ayón
Research has consistently linked discrimination and poorer health; however, fewer studies have focused on immigration-related discrimination and mental health outcomes. Drawing on quantitative surveys (N = 1,131) and qualitative interviews (N = 63) with Latino undergraduate students who are undocumented or U.S. citizens with undocumented parents, we examine the association between perceived immigration-related