Social Science and Medicine

Resilience resources may buffer some middle-aged and older Black Americans from memory decline despite experiencing discrimination.  316. 2023

Vicarious experiences of major discrimination, anxiety symptoms, and mental health care utilization among Black Adults.  316. 2023

Designing a couple-based relationship strengthening and health enhancing intervention for pregnant women living with HIV and their male partners in Zambia: Interview findings from the target community.  283. 2021

A tale of two generations: Maternal skin color and adverse birth outcomes in Black/African American women.  265. 2020

Precarity and health: Theorizing the intersection of multiple material-need insecurities, stigma, and illness among women in the United States.  245. 2020

Measuring perceived mistreatment across diverse social groups: An evaluation of the Everyday Discrimination Scale.  232:298-306. 2019

The effect of unstable housing on HIV treatment biomarkers: An instrumental variables approach.  214:70-82. 2018

Perceptions of intersectional stigma among diverse women living with HIV in the United States.  208:9-17. 2018

Unequal interactions: Examining the role of patient-centered care in reducing inequitable diffusion of a medical innovation, the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine.  200:238-248. 2018

Making a difference in medical trainees’ attitudes toward Latino patients: A pilot study of an intervention to modify implicit and explicit attitudes.  199:202-208. 2018

“The land of the sick and the land of the healthy”: Disability, bureaucracy, and stigma among people living with poverty and chronic illness in the United States.  190:181-189. 2017

Mechanisms linking intimate partner violence and prevention of mother-to-child transmission of HIV: A qualitative study in South Africa.  168:130-139. 2016

Promises and pitfalls of data sharing in qualitative research.  169:191-198. 2016

Do racial inequities in infant mortality correspond to variations in societal conditions? A study of state-level income inequality in the U.S., 1992–2007.  164:49-58. 2016

Distinct age and self-rated health crossover mortality effects for African Americans: Evidence from a national cohort study.  156:12-20. 2016

Relationship dynamics around depression in gay and lesbian couples..  147:38-46. 2015

The influence of HOPE VI neighborhood revitalization on neighborhood-based physical activity: A mixed-methods approach.  139:90-99. 2015

Does higher income income inequality adversely influence infant mortality rates? Reconciling descriptive patterns and recent research findings.  131:82-88. 2015

Contextual determinants of US nursing home racial/ethnic diversity.  104:142-147. 2014

The role of under-employment and unemployment in recent birth cohort effects in Australian suicide.  93:155-162. 2013

Moving towards culturally competent health systems: Organizational and market factors.  75:815-822. 2012

The relationship between state abortion-restrictions and homicide deaths among children under 5 years of age: A longitudinal study.  75:156-164. 2012

Decision aid tools to support women's decision making in pregnancy and birth: A systematic review and meta-analysis.  74:1968-1978. 2012

Socioeconomic status and cell aging in children.  74:1948-1951. 2012

'Worse than HIV' or 'not as serious as other diseases'? Conceptualization of cervical cancer among newly screened women in Zambia.  74:1486-1493. 2012

Canaries in a coalmine: Immigration and overweight among Mexican-origin children in the US and Mexico.  74:125-134. 2012

Neighborhood socioeconomic status predictors of physical activity through young to middle adulthood: The CARDIA study.  72:641-649. 2011

Attributable risk of psychiatric and socio-economic factors for suicide from individual-level, population-based studies: A systematic review.  72:608-616. 2011

Factors associated with partner referral among patients with sexually transmitted infections in Bangladesh.  71:1921-1926. 2010

The relative contribution of income inequality and imprisonment to the variation in homicide rates among Developed (OECD), South and Central American countries.  69:1343-1350. 2009

The specter of post-communism: Women and alcohol in eight post-Soviet states.  68:1254-1262. 2009

Further increases in rural suicide in young Australian adults: Secular trends, 1979-2003.  65:442-453. 2007

Expansion of HIV/AIDS in China: Lessons from Yunnan Province.  64:665-675. 2007

Developing, integrating, and perpetuating new ways of applying sociology to health, medicine, policy, and everyday life.  64:248-258. 2007

Psychological distress, gender, and health lifestyles in Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Ukraine.  63:2381-2394. 2006

Predictors of improvement in social support: Five-year effects of a structured intervention for caregivers of spouses with Alzheimer's disease.  63:957-967. 2006

Challenges for the adoption of evidence-based maternity care in Turkey.  62:2196-2204. 2006

Health lifestyles and political ideology in Belarus, Russia, and Ukraine.  62:1799-1809. 2006

Beyond rankings: Using cognitive mapping to understand what health care journals represent.  62:1192-1204. 2006

The healthy migrant theory: Variations in pregnancy outcomes among US-born migrants.  62:491-498. 2006

BlaxterMildredHealth2004Polity Press(168pp., NPL paperback).  61:2467. 2005

Causes and demographic, medical, lifestyle and psychosocial predictors of premature mortality: The CARDIA study.  60:471-482. 2005

Social isolation, support, and capital and nutritional risk in an older sample: Ethnic and gender differences.  60:747-761. 2005

The impact of current and past interpersonal violence on women's mental health.  60:1717-1727. 2005

Health lifestyles in central Asia: The case of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan.  59:1409-1421. 2004

Health and social change: a critical theory Graham Scambler; Open University Press, Buckingham, UK, 2002, 188pp., NPL (paper).  58:879-880. 2004

Racial and ethnic diversity and organizational behavior: A focused research agenda for health services management.  59:961-971. 2004

The determinants of withdrawal use in Turkey: A husband's imposition or a woman's choice?.  59:1019-1033. 2004

Socioeconomic status and health among the aged in the United States and Germany: A comparative cross-sectional study.  57:1643-1652. 2003

Ready to die: A postmodern interpretation of the increase of African-American adolescent male suicide.  55:907-920. 2002

Taming oblivion: aging bodies and the fear of senility in Japan John W. Traphagen; State University of New York Press, Albany, 2000, pp., 225 Price $20.95 paper back.  53:1561. 2001

Family effects on self-reported health among Russian wives and husbands.  53:1653-1666. 2001

Health lifestyles in Russia.  51:1313-1324. 2000

A critical review of recent US market level health care strategy literature.  51:639-656. 2000

Over the limit: The association among health, race and debt.  50:517-529. 2000

The social gradient in life expectancy: The contrary case of Okinawa in Japan.  51:115-122. 2000

A case-control study of employment status and mortality in a cohort of Australian youth.  49:383-392. 1999

Urban and rural suicide differentials in migrants and the Australian- born, New South Wales, Australia 1985-1994.  49:81-91. 1999

Suicide in urban New South Wales, Australia 1985-1994: Socio-economic and migrant interactions.  47:1677-1686. 1998

Determinants of dental care use in dentate adults: Six-monthly use during a 24-month period in the Florida Dental Care Study.  47:727-737. 1998

A cohort study of unemployment as a cause of psychological disturbance in Australian youth.  38:1553-1564. 1994

Dental care use by U.S. veterans eligible for VA care.  36:361-370. 1993

Suicide and unemployment in Australia 1907-1990.  36:749-756. 1993

A test of the relationship between race, socioeconomic status, and psychological distress.  31:1321-1326. 1990

Health lifestyles and self-direction in employment among American men: A test of the spillover effect.  28:1269-1274. 1989

Psychological distress, perceived health status, and physician utilization in America and west Germany.  26:829-838. 1988

Symptoms, social stratification and self-responsibility for health in the United States and West Germany.  22:1263-1271. 1986

Psychological approaches to the management of arthritis pain.  19:1353-1360. 1984

The state of medical sociology in the United States, Great Britain, West Germany and Austria: Applied vs pure theory.  17:1513-1527. 1983