Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Scholars in Health Policy Research
National Program
To help develop a new generation of creative thinkers in health policy research within the disciplines of economics, political science, and sociology.
Sociologists
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Isolation in America: Does Living Alone Mean Being Alone?
February 6, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
HCB: You conducted interviews with hundreds of people across the country who live alone. Tell us about the trends you identified in the book. Klinenberg: When I looked more closely at the issue I learned that living alone had become incredibly commo ...
Towards a Sociology of Disease
June 1, 2008 | Journal Article
This paper examines whether and how social life matters for morbidity and mortality as well as how morbidity and mortality affect the lives of patients, their families and neighborhoods. To show how little medical sociologists have engaged with specific diseases in the past, the authors review the literature in Sociology and Health and Illness from 1997 to 2006.
You are What You Do
September 1, 2002 | Program Result
The American Psychological Association produced and disseminated a book entitled Integrating Behavioral and Social Sciences with Public Health, and created a Web site based on the themes and presentations of its May 1998 interdisciplinary conference.