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Health and health care inequities, infectious diseases and social factors / edited by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Research in the sociology of health care ; v. 39.
- Research in the Sociology of Health Care ; volume 39
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Social medicine.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Bingley, England : Emerald Publishing Limited, 2022.
- Summary:
- This next volume in Research in the Sociology of Health Carecovers a variety of important social factors and their relationship to health and health care inequities both in the United States and the rest of the world.
- Contents:
- Cover
- HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE INEQUITIES, INFECTIOUS DISEASES AND SOCIAL FACTORS
- RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH CARE
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF FIGURES AND TABLES
- ABOUT THE EDITOR
- ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS
- Part 1. Covid-19-Related Papers
- Intersections of Health Inequities, COVID-19, and Kidney Disease Care in 2020
- Abstract
- Introduction
- Risk Escalation: COVID-19/Kidney Disease Intersections
- COVID-19/AKI Emergent Pathophysiology: What Is the Science?
- Adapting Chronic Care Protocols: Insights Gained?
- Acknowledging Inequities
- Conclusion
- References
- Social Values, Face Masks, and COVID-19: An Exploratory Case Study
- Research Objective and Hypothesis
- Philosophical and Political Theory
- Sociological Theory
- The Case Study
- Sturgis, SD
- Huron City, SD
- Sioux Falls, SD
- Mitchell, SD
- Vermillion, SD
- Discussion
- Conclusions
- Postscript on Mandates
- "We're Such a Small Community": A Qualitative Study of COVID-19 Pandemic Experiences in Rural New Mexico
- Methods
- Sample Description
- Research Approach and Design, Data Collection, Data Analysis
- Findings
- Physical Health and Healthcare Challenges
- Mental Health Challenges
- Changing Behaviors
- COVID-19 Health Literacy
- Political Responses to the Pandemic
- Community Resilience
- The Role of Adaptability and Resistance to Change in Mitigating the Effects of Pandemic
- Adaptability
- Resistance to Change
- Methodology
- Results
- Limitations
- Part 2. Lessons from Outside the United States.
- "Living on the Fault Lines: Women's Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Health in Postdisaster NEPAL"
- Why Nepal?
- Findings and Analysis
- Microlevel Experiences of Gender, Sexuality, and Reproductive Health
- Macrolevel Implications for Women's Sexuality and Reproductive Health
- Postscript: Implications for Current Applications
- Post-Post Script: Nepal, COVID-19, and Summer of 2021
- Migratory Stress, Health and Gender: An Intersectional Analysis of the Ecuadorean Case
- Methods and Sampling
- Migratory Stress and Gender
- Gender and Migration-Related Health Processes and Coping Mechanisms
- Cross-National Differences in the Interrelationship between Education, Use of Health Information from the Media, and Well-Being
- Data, Variables, and Method
- Data
- Variables
- Method
- Part 3. Health-care System Issues in the United States
- Novel Healthcare Model, Continuation of Inequality: Exploring the Role of Micro Hospitals in Texas Health-Care Access throu ...
- Equality of Health-Care Access in Spatial and Nonspatial Dimensions
- Defining Likely Patients for Each Type of Hospital
- Spatial Methods to Define Hospital Catchment Areas
- Nonspatial Dimension of Patient Access to Hospitals
- Test of Means of Population Characteristics
- Regression Models
- Two Tales of "Equal Opportunity"
- Final Considerations
- Evidence-Based Medicine and the Limits of Standardization
- The Case of Pelvic Pain Care
- Background
- The Medical Gaze and Biopower
- Evidence-Based Medicine and Positivism
- The Standard Human and Niche Standardization
- The Limits of Dialectical Thinking
- Methods.
- Findings
- Evidence-Based Medicine without the Evidence
- Unnecessary Lag in Knowledge Dissemination
- Definitional Dilemmas
- Fixing the Unfixable
- Pigeonholing Patients through Niche Standardization
- Outdated Standards of Care
- Unnecessary Surgeries
- It's the OBGYNs Niche
- The Limits of Niche Standardization
- Shifting the Paradigm
- Trends in Health Disparities of Rural Latinos Pre- and Post-Accountable Care Organization Implementation
- Related Research
- Design
- Data Sources and Variables
- Analysis
- Absolute Disparity Results
- Relative Disparity Results
- Pre- and Post-ACO Years Comparison Results
- Acknowledgments
- INDEX.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Kronenfeld, Jennie Jacobs Health and Health Care Inequities, Infectious Diseases and Social Factors
- ISBN:
- 9781801179409
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