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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
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 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.
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.
April 1, 2006 | Journal Article
The authors examined social risk factors (poverty, minority race/ethnicity, low parental education and not living with both biological parents) to assess whether an accretion of risk factors had a cumulative effect on child health. They also investi ...
September 1, 2002 | Program Result Report
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.