The relationship between education and health: reducing disparities through a contextual approach

A Zajacova, EM Lawrence - Annual review of public health, 2018 - annualreviews.org
Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared with their
less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening. We posit that understanding …

Trends in US population health: The central role of policies, politics, and profits

JK Montez, MD Hayward… - Journal of Health and …, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent trends in US health have been mixed, with improvements among some groups and
geographic areas alongside declines among others. Medical sociologists have contributed …

How do state policies shape experiences of household income shocks and mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic?

R Donnelly, MP Farina - Social science & medicine, 2021 - Elsevier
The tremendous job loss and wage cuts during the COVID-19 pandemic raises concerns
about the mental health of the population. The impacts of income shocks on mental health …

Marital happiness, marital status, health, and longevity

EM Lawrence, RG Rogers, A Zajacova… - Journal of Happiness …, 2019 - Springer
Married individuals are healthier and live longer than those who are never married,
divorced, or widowed. But not all marriages are equal: unhappy marriages provide fewer …

Factors associated with county-level differences in US drug-related mortality rates

SM Monnat - American journal of preventive medicine, 2018 - Elsevier
Introduction Over the past 2 decades, drug-related deaths have grown to be a major US
public health problem. County-level differences in drug-related mortality rates are large. The …

Educational disparities in adult mortality across US states: How do they differ, and have they changed since the mid-1980s?

JK Montez, A Zajacova, MD Hayward, SH Woolf… - Demography, 2019 - Springer
Adult mortality varies greatly by educational attainment. Explanations have focused on
actions and choices made by individuals, neglecting contextual factors such as economic …

Structural racism and health stratification: Connecting theory to measurement

TH Brown, P Homan - Journal of health and social behavior, 2024 - journals.sagepub.com
Less than 1% of studies on racialized health inequities have empirically examined their root
cause: structural racism. Moreover, there has been a disconnect between the …

[图书][B] Philosophy of population health: Philosophy for a new public health era

S Valles - 2018 - taylorfrancis.com
Philosophy of Population Health Page 1 Page 2 Philosophy of Population Health Population
health has recently grown from a series of loosely connected critiques of twentieth- century …

Educational disparities in adult health: US states as institutional actors on the association

JK Montez, MD Hayward, A Zajacova - Socius, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Despite numerous studies on educational disparities in US adult health, explanations for the
disparities and their growth over time remain incomplete. The authors argue that this …

Growing income-based inequalities in old-age life expectancy in Sweden, 2006–2015

S Fors, JW Wastesson, L Morin - Demography, 2021 - read.dukeupress.edu
Sweden is known for high life expectancy and economic egalitarianism, yet in recent
decades it has lost ground in both respects. This study tracked income inequality in old-age …