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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.
November 1, 2011 | Journal Article
People are highly influenced by what the people in their social network eat.
April 11, 2011 | Journal Article
This study examined the role of bias in treatment decisions close to 1,000 physicians chose hypothetical treatments for colon cancer and avian flu the physicians either chose a treatment they would want for themselves or made a recommendation for a patient.
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A broad look at decades of health policy successes and failures in Congress.
January 1, 2011 | Journal Article
A drinking age of 18 is associated with slightly higher rates of low birth weight and premature babies, with babies born to black women affected more. Stricter drinking policies also may have unintended positive consequences a range of effects of lowering the drinking age should be considered before any policy changes are made.
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
A study examining the influence of imagery associating type 2 diabetes with different causalities and racial groups on research spending preferences and stereotypes about diabetes found that subtle changes in media messages can change public opinion about federal funding for treatment and prevention.
August 9, 2011 | Program Result Report
A team at Harvard led by Nicholas Christakis, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H, built several health-related social network data sets and used them to analyze the role social networks play in health and health care. Some findings achieved national media coverage.
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.
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.