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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.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article, from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement examines sociological research into the effects of stress. The author emphasizes the cumulative effects of stress stress has a more severe effect on disadvantaged groups.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement reviews evidence of the connection between social relationships and health. The authors consider behavioral, psychosocial and physiological aspects of health and social relationships.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay explores how social dynamics shape the experience of illness. The authors recount the development of the cultural meaning of illness and provide a critique of the foundations of medical knowledge.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay examines the role of the patient in the U.S. health care system. The authors discuss the transformation of the patient from a passive follower of medical authority into an active consumer in today's health care system.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This article, from a supplement to the Journal of Health and Social Behavior, assesses the state of the medical profession. The authors emphasize the tension between a physician's self-interest and care of the patient in an increasingly commercialized health system.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
In this article, the author considers the life-cycle of bioethical principles from private ethical conflicts to public spectacle to ingrained policy within health care organizations. Essentially contested total social conflicts have given rise to the language of principlism.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
The U.S. health care system often provides services that stray from scientific standards and contribute to unnecessary costs. This article explores paths to a more efficient system.
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
State actions requiring adolescent girls to receive the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine created controversy following the vaccine’s approval in 2006.
September 15, 2010 | Journal Article
To evaluate whether such a friend group could indeed provide early detection, the authors studied a flu outbreak at Harvard College in late 2009.