"Improving Access to Children's Mental Health Care: Lessons from a Study of Eleven States" - a new report from the Center for Health and Health Care Services - exposes barriers and opportunities for children's mental health under expansion of the Affordable Care Act.
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March 26, 2013 | Issue Brief
Early treatment and intervention for mental illness can improve lives and lower related health care costs.
September 1, 2005 | Program Result
Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center examined attitudes toward tobacco and alcohol products in very young children and their relationship to parental attitudes and behavior toward the same products.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
Katherine J. Rosich and Janet R. Hankin outline the contents of 11 articles from this special supplement to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. The findings are the result of 50 years of research into the social dimensions of health and health care in the U.S.
National Program
Effective tobacco treatment as part of basic health care.
November 1, 2012 | Journal Article
A study of associations between HIV-positive people’s awareness of New Jersey’s HIV exposure law and their HIV-related attitudes, beliefs and seropositive disclosure behaviors found that awareness of the law had little effect on the disclosure behavior of HIV-positive individuals.
September 1, 2012 | Journal Article
The Society of Behavioral Medicine and the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco are positioned to lead research so the public health benefits of 1-800-QUIT-NOW on cigarette packs can be monitored, evaluated, and maximized.
April 10, 2012 | Program Result
Oral Health America, a Chicago-based organization that advocates improved dental care, launched a public education campaign to reduce the use of spit tobacco (both chewing tobacco and snuff).
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The Journal of Health and Social Behavior has released a supplemental issue detailing 50 years of research into the social dimensions of health care. Topics include: bioethics, disparities in access to care and the cultural definition of illness.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement is a survey of sociological literature examining health and race. The authors revisit a century of contributions from W.E.B. Dubois to Robert Bullard's study of environmental racism.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement presents evidence supporting Phelan and Link"s fundamental causes theory. Socioeconomic status (SES) is a fundamental cause of health inequalities because it demonstrates four essential features.