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Immigration and the health of U.S. black adults: Does country of origin matter?

Hamilton, Tod G.; Hummer, Robert A. - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 10, pp. 1551-1560

Previous work suggests that regional variation in pre-migration exposure to racism and discrimination, measured by a region's racial composition, predicts differences in individual-level health among black immigrants to the United States. We exploit data on both region and country of birth for...

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Attitudes and beliefs related to HIV/AIDS in urban religious congregations: Barriers and opportunities for HIV-related interventions

Bluthenthal, Ricky N.; Palar, Kartika; Mendel, Peter; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 10, pp. 1520-1527

HIV-related stigmas have been seen as a barrier to greater religious congregation involvement in HIV prevention and care in the United States and elsewhere. We explored congregational and community norms and attitudes regarding HIV, sexuality, and drug use through a qualitative case study of 14...

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Social welfare and the Affordable Care Act: Is it ever optimal to set aside comparative cost?

Mortimer, Duncan; Peacock, Stuart - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 7, pp. 1156-1162

The creation of the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) under the Affordable Care Act has set comparative effectiveness research (CER) at centre stage of US health care reform. Comparative cost analysis has remained marginalised and it now appears unlikely that the PCORI will...

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Moving towards culturally competent health systems: Organizational and market factors

Weech-Maldonado, Robert; Elliott, Marc N.; Pradhan, Rohit; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 5, pp. 815-822

Cultural competency has been proposed as an organizational strategy to address racial/ethnic disparities in the healthcare system; disparities are a long-standing policy challenge whose relevance is only increasing with the increasing population diversity of the US and across the world. Using an...

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Health disparities in mid-to-late life: The role of earlier life family and neighborhood socioeconomic conditions

Johnson, Rucker C.; Schoeni, Robert F.; Rogowski, … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 4, pp. 625-636

The relationship between neighborhoods of residence in young adulthood and health in mid-to-late life in the United States are examined using the 1968–2005 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (PSID). The sample consists of persons who were aged 20–30 in 1968 and are followed for a...

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Neighborhood conditions are associated with maternal health behaviors and pregnancy outcomes

Vinikoor-Imler, L.C.; Messer, L.C.; Evenson, K.R.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 9, pp. 1302-1311

Women residing in neighborhoods of low socioeconomic status are more likely to experience adverse reproductive outcomes; however, few studies explore which specific neighborhood features are associated with poor maternal health behaviors and pregnancy outcomes. Based upon our conceptual model,...

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Dynamics of stigma in abortion work: Findings from a pilot study of the Providers Share Workshop

Harris, Lisa Hope; Debbink, Michelle; Martin, Lisa; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 73 (2011) 7, pp. 1062-1070

Abortion is highly stigmatized in the United States. The consequences of stigma for abortion providers are not well understood, nor are there published accounts of tools to assess or alleviate its burdens. We designed The Providers Share Workshop to address this gap. Providers Share is a...

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Decreased births among black female adolescents following school desegregation

Liu, Sze Yan; Linkletter, Crystal D.; Loucks, Eric B.; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 74 (2012) 7, pp. 982-988

Although the socioeconomic impact of school desegregation in the U.S. has been well documented, little is known about the health consequences of this policy. The purpose of this study was to quantify the associations between school desegregation and adolescent births among black and white...

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Associations among social capital, parenting for active lifestyles, and youth physical activity in rural families living in upstate New York

Davison, Kirsten K.; Nishi, Akihiro; Kranz, Sibylle; … - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 8, pp. 1488-1496

study, we examined parents’ support of children’s PA as an intermediary factor linking social capital and youth PA in a … largely rural cross sectional sample of American children aged 6- to 19-years and their parents/guardians (N=767 families … capital, support for children’s PA, and children’s PA including time spent outdoors and days per week of sufficient PA …

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Geographic variation in participation for physically disabled adults: The contribution of area economic factors to employment after spinal cord injury

Botticello, Amanda L.; Chen, Yuying; Tulsky, David S. - In: Social Science & Medicine 75 (2012) 8, pp. 1505-1513

This study investigates the role of area economic characteristics in predicting employment–a key aspect of social participation for adults with physical disabilities–using data from a national registry of persons with spinal cord injury (SCI). SCI results in chronic impairment and most...

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