Description
Book SynopsisThis volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care analyses a variety of important social factors and their relationship to health and health care inequities in both the United States and the rest of the world.
With distinct sections for vaccination and other related topics, the chapters unveil the health care inequities that exist across a broad range of scenarios such as residential segregation, rurality, caregiving during COVID-19, the effects of stress on patients of color with chronic illnesses, cochlear implants in children, community health centers and viral load testing.
Employing a sociological and broader social sciences approach, Social Factors, Health Care Inequities and Vaccination draws on a variety of contexts, including the COVID-19 pandemic, to explore wider trends in healthcare and the impact they may have on historically disadvantaged communities.
Table of ContentsSection 1. Vaccination
Chapter 1. How Residential Segregation Moderates the Association between Racial/Ethnic Composition and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates across Metropolitan Counties in the U.S.; Caroline Wolski, Kathryn Freeman Anderson, and Simone Rambotti
Chapter 2. Perspectives of Rural New Mexicans on the COVID-19 Vaccines: A Qualitative Study of COVID-19 Pandemic Vaccination Experiences in Rural New Mexico; Maria Gabaldon-Parish and Kate Cartwright
Chapter 3. Full-Time Caregiving during COVID-19 Based on Minority Identifications, Generation, and Vaccination Status; Erica S. Jablonski, Chris R. Surfus, and Megan Henly
Chapter 4. Redefining the Vulnerable Population in Public Health Research: Incorporating Ideological Determinants of Anti-Vaccination Attitudes; Atsuko Kawakami, Subi Gandhi, Derek Lehman, and Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Section 2. Other Topics Linked to Social Factors and Health Care Inequities
Chapter 5. An Examination of Exposure and Vulnerability to Stress from Chronic Illness and Its Impact on Mental Health and Long-Term Disability among Non-Hispanic White, African American, and Latinx Populations; Matthew E. Archibald, Rachel N. Head, Jordan Yakoby, and Pamela Behrman
Chapter 6. The Cochlear Implant Decision: How Parents Decide to Implant Their Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants; Kathryn Burrows
Chapter 7. Gaps in the Safety-Net: Community Health Centers’ Diminutive Effect on Having a Regular Source of Care; Danielle N. Gadson
Chapter 8. Sociodemographic Predictors of Viral Load Testing among Hepatitis C Antibody-Positive Patients in a Large Southern California County: An Example of Health Care Inequalities; Sara H. Goodman, Matthew Zahn, Tim-Allen Bruckner, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Janet R. Hankin, and Cynthia M. Lakon
