Care for Major Health Problems and Population Health Concerns: Impacts on Patients, Providers and Policy (Research in the Sociology of Health Care)

Research in the sociology of health care......Page 1
sdarticle_001.pdf......Page 2
sdarticle_002.pdf......Page 3
List of Contributors......Page 4
Population health concerns and major health problems: An introduction to the topic and the volume......Page 6
Introduction to population health......Page 7
Sociological discussions of population health and the importance of social class......Page 8
Population health concerns and newer research articles......Page 11
Review of the other sections and selections in this volume......Page 13
References......Page 15
Introduction......Page 17
Inequalities in health......Page 18
Inequalities in managing chronic illness......Page 20
Methods......Page 22
Results......Page 23
Economic Barriers and Inequalities......Page 25
Age-Related Barriers......Page 28
Barriers Stemming from Marital Status......Page 30
Gender-Related Barriers and Inequalities......Page 32
Discussion......Page 33
References......Page 36
Functional ability and disability among older adults with arthritis: The impact of age, duration of arthritis, and severity of arthritis......Page 40
Introduction......Page 41
Background......Page 43
The Disability Process......Page 46
Data and methodology......Page 47
Dependent Variables......Page 48
Independent Variables......Page 49
Results......Page 53
Discussion......Page 58
Notes......Page 60
References......Page 61
Weight loss surgery patients’ negotiations of medicine’s institutional logic......Page 64
Introduction......Page 65
Theoretical considerations......Page 66
Methods......Page 68
Developing an ideal patient archetype......Page 69
Patients’ negotiations of the ideal archetype......Page 75
Embracing the Ideal......Page 76
Having a Mixed Response to the Ideal......Page 80
Strategically Negotiating the Ideal......Page 82
Conclusions......Page 86
References......Page 88
From the patient’s point of view: Practitioner interaction styles in the treatment of women with chronic STDs......Page 92
Intersections of morality and medicine......Page 94
Socio-historical perspectives on STDs......Page 95
Sexual health interactions: Stigmatized crossroads......Page 96
Models of practitioner-patient interaction styles......Page 98
The importance of studying patients’ perceptions of practitioner-patient interactions......Page 99
Setting and method......Page 101
Practitioner interaction styles......Page 104
Moral Surveillance Model......Page 105
Biomedical Model......Page 106
Patient-Centered Model......Page 108
Practitioner Sex/Gender: A Factor in Interaction Style......Page 110
Interaction Style as Risk to Patient Health......Page 112
Conclusions......Page 114
References......Page 116
‘‘I’m Still Here’’: a 10 year follow-up of women’s experiences living with HIV......Page 120
Introduction......Page 121
Background......Page 122
Design and Theoretical Influences......Page 124
Recruitment and Sampling......Page 125
Data Collection......Page 126
Interview and Analysis Processes......Page 127
‘‘I’m Still Here’’......Page 128
Normalcy......Page 129
Discussionsolconclusions......Page 131
References......Page 133
Physicians as advocates for their patients: Depression treatment in primary care......Page 136
Introduction......Page 137
Physicians as street-level bureaucrats......Page 139
Study Site......Page 143
Sample......Page 144
Primary Care Physician’s Interpretation of State Policy and Medicaid Reimbursement for Mental Health......Page 145
The Beliefs and Willingness of Primary Care Physicians to Serve as Advocates for Their Patients by Treating Mental Health......Page 147
Barriers That Prevent the Primary Care Physicians from Providing High Quality Depression Care......Page 150
The Medicaid Patient’s Status as a Non-Voluntary Client and its Effect on Primary Care Depression Treatment......Page 152
Discussion......Page 153
References......Page 156
Interview questions......Page 159
Social support and the use of mental health services among Asian Americans: results from the national Latino and Asian American study......Page 161
Social support and the use of mental health services among Asian Americans......Page 162
Social support, Asian Americans and mental health services......Page 163
Data......Page 164
Measures......Page 165
Findings......Page 166
Variations by US-Born Asian Subgroups: Use of Generalist Services......Page 167
Social Support and Use of Generalist Services......Page 168
Social Support and Use of Specialist Services......Page 170
Discussion......Page 171
Conclusions......Page 176
References......Page 177
‘‘Falling through the cracks’’: health care needs of the older homeless population and their implications......Page 179
Health and Health Care of Older Homeless Persons......Page 181
Methods......Page 183
Provider Interviews......Page 184
Focus Groups and Interviews with Older Homeless Men and Women......Page 185
Health Issues of the Older Homeless......Page 186
Chronic and Complicated Conditions......Page 187
Access to Health Care Services......Page 188
Nutrition and Exercise......Page 189
Health Care Policy Barriers......Page 190
Discussion......Page 191
Policy and Program Considerations......Page 192
Limitations......Page 193
References......Page 194
The urbanization of poverty and urban slum prevalence: The impact of the built environment on population-level patterns of social well-being in the less developed countries......Page 197
Introduction......Page 198
The ascendance of urban slums in the developing world: An overview......Page 200
Urban social organization in the developing countries: Examining the conundrum......Page 205
Dependency relations and the proliferation of urban slums in the developing countries......Page 211
Implications of urban slum prevalence for population-level health concerns......Page 215
Conclusions......Page 218
Notes......Page 220
References......Page 221
Unsettled borders of care: medical tourism as a new dimension in america’s health care crisis......Page 227
References......Page 239