Social protection and absorptive capacity: Disaster preparedness and social welfare policy in the United States

S Rao, NV Enelamah - World Development, 2024 - Elsevier
Climate change exacerbates drivers of impoverishment, necessitating a more robust
evidence base to inform policy and action. Recent studies have examined how social …

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

HJ Whittle, AM Leddy, J Shieh, PC Tien… - Social Science & …, 2020 - Elsevier
Material-need insecurities (including insecurities in basic resources such as income, food,
housing, and healthcare) are widespread in the United States (US) and may be important …

“It's no foundation, there's no stabilization, you're just scattered”: A qualitative study of the institutional circuit of recently-evicted people who use drugs

T Fleming, AB Collins, J Boyd, KR Knight… - Social Science & …, 2023 - Elsevier
People who use drugs (PWUD) commonly experience housing instability due to intersecting
structural vulnerabilities (eg, drug prohibition, discriminatory housing policies), and …

To punish, parent, or palliate: governing urban poverty through institutional failure

A DiMario - American sociological review, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
Studies of poverty governance typically emphasize the punitive subjugation or paternalistic
disciplining of the poor. Much work combines elements of these approaches, and recent …

Co-use of methamphetamine and opioids among people in treatment in Oregon: a qualitative examination of interrelated structural, community, and individual-level …

AM Lopez, Z Dhatt, M Howe, M Al-Nassir… - International Journal of …, 2021 - Elsevier
Background Rates of methamphetamine use and methamphetamine-related deaths have
increased steadily in the United States in recent years. Methamphetamine is increasingly …

Making Sense of Health-Related Labor-Market Exits and Disability: Evidence from the American Voices Project

J Hiebert, L Kahris, K Seefeldt - RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation …, 2024 - rsfjournal.org
Issues around stigma and deservingness may be particularly salient for people who stop
working due to health-related reasons. Although historically those experiencing disability …

Necropolitics in the “compassionate” city: care/brutality in San Francisco

AM López - Medical anthropology, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT In San Francisco in the United States, the urban precariat is governed
simultaneously by two logics of intervention that are highly contradictory: compassion and …

Social and structural vulnerabilities: Associations with disaster readiness

S Rao, FC Doherty, S Teixeira, DT Takeuchi… - Global Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ability to plan for a disaster is associated with a range of contextual factors and often
traverses several sites of inequities, including sociodemographic and institutional …

Social service providers' perspectives on caring for structurally vulnerable hospital patients who use drugs: a qualitative study

ND Gehring, KA Speed, K Dong, B Pauly… - BMC health services …, 2022 - Springer
Background People who use drugs and are structurally vulnerable (eg, experiencing
unstable and/or lack of housing) frequently access acute care. However, acute care systems …

Criminal justice involvement, structural vulnerability and social safety net services among people living with HIV in Baltimore

N Flath, JJ White, K Tobin, C Latkin - Crime, Law and Social Change, 2024 - Springer
Mass incarceration has shaped the environment of HIV transmission, yet there is limited
research on the conditions that enhance or mitigate access to health and social resources …