Vanessa, Grotti Cynthia, Malakasis Chiara, Quagliariello Nina, Sahraoui
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Social science & medicine (1982)
In Greece, Italy, and Spain, austerity policies combined with the structural density of migration flows have had concrete social and material manifestations in the delivery of public health care. Through our ethnographic case studies in Lampedusa and southeastern Sicily, Melilla, and Athens, we examine the maternity care offered to migrant patients...
Lynne-Joseph, Alyssa
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Social science & medicine (1982)
Previous research has studied how clinicians such as physicians, nurses, social workers, and nutritionists understand advocacy as a professional responsibility. Analyses have typically focused on individual healthcare professions and have viewed ambiguity around the conceptualization of advocacy as detrimental. Little research has considered how mu...
Kaiser, Andrea Hannah Okorafor, Okore Ekman, Björn Chhim, Srean Yem, Sokunthea Sundewall, Jesper
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Social science & medicine (1982)
Over the past decades, many low- and middle-income countries have implemented health financing and system reforms to progress towards universal health coverage (UHC). In the case of Cambodia, out-of-pocket expenditure (OOPE) remains the main source of current health expenditure after several decades of reform, exposing households to financial risks...
Mendolia, Silvia Walker, Ian
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Social science & medicine (1982)
COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy has previously been modelled using data on intentions - expressed prior to vaccine availability. Once vaccines became widely available, it became possible to model hesitancy using actual vaccination uptake data. This paper estimates the determinants of the joint distribution of COVID-19 vaccination intentions (declared be...
Hübner, Wiebke Phillimore, Jenny Bradby, Hannah Brand, Tilman
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Social science & medicine (1982)
Access to good healthcare and the conditions for good health is one of the central dimensions of immigrant integration. National health policies play a major role in equipping residents with the necessary entitlements to accessible and acceptable healthcare services. Rarely analysed so far is the contribution of migration-related health policies to...
Delaunay, Catarina Gouveia, Luís Santos, Mário Jds Morais, Rita
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Social science & medicine (1982)
In this article we develop the new concept of emotional choreography to describe how patients bond, debond and/or rebond with their embryos created in vitro using assisted reproductive technologies (ART). Using this concept, we explore how the patients' management of their own emotions intertwines with political, scientific, and religious factors. ...
Manning, Mark Lucas, Todd Purrington, Kristen Thompson, Hayley Albrecht, Terrance L Penner, Louis
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Social science & medicine (1982)
Assumptions regarding within-race variation in the associations between measures of discrimination racism and health-related behaviors among African Americans have been largely unexplored. We conducted secondary analyses of two studies to examine support for a model which describes several theoretical moderators of the effects of discrimination and...
Stockman, Jamila K Lucea, Marguerite B Cimino, Andrea N Wood, Brittany A Tsuyuki, Kiyomi Granger, Douglas A Campbell, Jacquelyn C
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Social science & medicine (1982)
In the United States, Black women are disproportionately affected by HIV, accounting for most new HIV infections diagnosed among women. Socio-structural barriers to HIV testing include stigma and discrimination but may be mitigated by resilience. We aimed to examine the effect of discrimination and resilience on HIV testing behaviors among Black wo...
Haeny, Angela M Gibbons, Frederick X Fleischli, Mary E Gerrard, Meg Lopez, Joel Beach, Steven R H
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Social science & medicine (1982)
The objective of this study was to investigate racial centrality as a mediator of the association between Black adolescents' racial discrimination experiences and their cigarette use in early adulthood. The data were drawn from the Family and Community Health Study, which is a longitudinal study of Black American families that began in 1996. Famili...
Zahodne, Laura B Sharifian, Neika Kraal, A Zarina Morris, Emily P Sol, Ketlyne Zaheed, Afsara B Meister, Lindsey Mayeux, Richard Schupf, Nicole Manly, Jennifer J
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Social science & medicine (1982)
Non-Hispanic Black older adults are at higher risk of Alzheimer's disease and related dementias (ADRD) than non-Hispanic Whites, which reflects racial disparities in both brain and cognitive health. Discrimination may contribute to these disparities, but much of the research on discrimination and ADRD outcomes is cross-sectional and/or does not dis...
