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Editorial Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers
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Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Editorial Acknowledgment of Ad Hoc Reviewers Source Type: research

Author Index
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Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Author Index Source Type: research

Corrigendum
Chen, Jen-Hao, Linda J. Waite, and Diane S. Lauderdale. 2015. "Marriage, Relationship Quality, and Sleep among U.S. Older Adults." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 56(3): 356–77. (Original DOI: 10.1177/0022146515594631) (Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior)
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Tags: Corrigendum Source Type: research

Physical Illness in Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Marriages: Gendered Dyadic Experiences
The inclusion of same-sex married couples can illuminate and challenge assumptions about gender that are routinely taken for granted in studies of physical illness. We analyze gender dynamics in gay, lesbian, and heterosexual marriages with in-depth interview data from 90 spouses (45 couples) to consider how spouses co-construct illness experiences in ways that shape relationship dynamics. Overall, findings indicate that men tend to downplay illness and thus provide minimal care work, whereas women tend to construct illness as immersive and involving intensive care work—in both same-sex and different-sex marriages. Y...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Umberson, D., Thomeer, M. B., Reczek, C., Donnelly, R. Tags: Social Construction of Illness among Gay, Lesbian, and Heterosexual Couples Source Type: research

The Stratified Legitimacy of Abortions
Roe v. Wade was heralded as an end to unequal access to abortion care in the United States. However, today, despite being common and safe, abortion is performed only selectively in hospitals and private practices. Drawing on 61 interviews with obstetrician-gynecologists in these settings, we examine how they determine which abortions to perform. We find that they distinguish between more and less legitimate abortions, producing a narrative of stratified legitimacy that privileges abortions for intended pregnancies, when the fetus is unhealthy, and when women perform normative gendered sexuality, including distress about th...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kimport, K., Weitz, T. A., Freedman, L. Tags: Social and Contextual Influences on Provider Behavior Source Type: research

Policy Brief
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Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kimport, K., Weitz, T. A., Freedman, L. Tags: Social and Contextual Influences on Provider Behavior Source Type: research

Whats the Rush? Tort Laws and Elective Early-term Induction of Labor
Tort laws aim to deter risky medical practices and increase accountability for harm. This research examines their effects on deterrence of a high-risk obstetric practice in the United States: elective early-term (37–38 weeks gestation) induction of labor. Using birth certificate data from the Natality Detail Files and state-level data from publicly available sources, this study analyzes the effects of tort laws on labor induction with multilevel models (MLM) of 665,491 early-term births nested in states. Results reveal that caps on damages are associated with significantly higher odds of early-term induction and Prop...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Roth, L. M. Tags: Social and Contextual Influences on Provider Behavior Source Type: research

Environmental Contaminants and Reproductive Bodies: Provider Perspectives on Risk, Gender, and Responsibility
Increasingly, leading health organizations recommend that women who are pregnant or considering pregnancy avoid certain toxic chemicals found in our products, homes, and communities in order to protect fetuses from developmental and future harm. In the contemporary United States, women’s maternal bodies have been treated as sites of exceptional risk and individual responsibility. Many studies have examined this phenomenon through the lens of lifestyle behaviors like smoking, drinking, and exercise. However, we know little about how environmental hazards fit into the dominant framework of gendered, individual responsi...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Stevens, L. M. Tags: Social and Contextual Influences on Provider Behavior Source Type: research

Cumulative Effects of Growing Up in Separate and Unequal Neighborhoods on Racial Disparities in Self-rated Health in Early Adulthood
Evidence suggests that living in a socioeconomically deprived neighborhood is associated with worse health. Yet most research relies on cross-sectional data, which implicitly ignore variation in longer-term exposure that may be more consequential for health. Using data from the 1970 to 2011 waves of the Panel Study of Income Dynamics merged with census data on respondents’ neighborhoods (N = 1,757), this study estimates a marginal structural model with inverse probability of treatment and censoring weights to examine: (1) whether cumulative exposure to neighborhood disadvantage from birth through age 17 affects self-...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Kravitz-Wirtz, N. Tags: Health in Neighborhood Context Source Type: research

Cross-border Ties as Sources of Risk and Resilience: Do Cross-border Ties Moderate the Relationship between Migration-related Stress and Psychological Distress for Latino Migrants in the United States?
Few studies have examined the associations between health and the cross-border ties that migrants maintain with their family members in communities of origin. We draw on theory related to social ties, ethnic identity, and mental health to examine cross-border ties as potential moderators of the association between migration-related stress and psychological distress among Latino migrants. Using data from the National Latino and Asian American Survey, we find that remittance sending is associated with significantly lower levels of psychological distress for Cuban migrants, and difficulty visiting home is associated with sign...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Torres, J. M., Alcantara, C., Rudolph, K. E., Viruell-Fuentes, E. A. Tags: Immigrant Health Source Type: research

Vintage Wine in New Bottles: Infusing Select Ideas into the Study of Immigration, Immigrants, and Mental Health
This article describes a few patterns in research studies that have addressed whether immigrants have higher or lower rates of mental health problems than their U.S.-born counterparts. It discusses a few past approaches to explain the differences in mental health outcomes. The article concludes with select concepts and tools from other sociological fields that may invigorate research on immigrants and their health and mental health. (Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior)
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - November 22, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Takeuchi, D. T. Tags: 2015 Leonard I. Pearlin Award Paper Source Type: research

Life Course Pathways of Economic Hardship and Mobility and Midlife Trajectories of Health
We utilize over 40 years of prospective data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (N = 1,229) and repeated-measures latent class analysis to examine how long-term patterns of stability and change in economic hardship from childhood to adulthood are related to subsequent trajectories of midlife health. We review conceptual and methodological approaches to examining health inequality across the life course and highlight the contribution of a person-centered, disaggregated approach to modeling health and its association with long-term pathways of economic resources, including changing resources associated with mobility. Fi...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - September 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Willson, A. E., Shuey, K. M. Tags: Social Considerations in the Study of Environmental Health Source Type: research

Socioeconomic and Racial-ethnic Disparities in Prosocial Health Attitudes: The Case of Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Vaccination for Adolescent Males
Research on prosocial attitudes, social networks, social capital, and social stratification suggest that lower–socioeconomic status (SES), Hispanic, and nonwhite individuals will be more likely than their higher-SES and non-Hispanic white counterparts to engage in health behaviors that serve a social good. Analyzing data from the University of North Carolina Human Papillomavirus (HPV) Immunization in Sons Study, we test whether SES and race-ethnicity are associated with willingness to vaccinate via prosocial attitudes toward HPV vaccination among adolescent males (n = 401) and parents (n = 518). Analyses revealed tha...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - September 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Polonijo, A. N., Carpiano, R. M., Reiter, P. L., Brewer, N. T. Tags: Social Considerations in the Study of Environmental Health Source Type: research

Chronic Disease at Midlife: Do Parent-child Bonds Modify the Effect of Childhood SES?
Childhood socioeconomic status (SES) often is associated with physical health even decades later. However, parent-child emotional bonds during childhood may modify the importance of childhood SES to emergent health inequalities across the life course. Drawing on national data on middle-aged adults (1995 and 2005 National Survey of Midlife Development in the United States; MIDUS; Ns = 2,746 and 1,632), I find that compromised parent-child bonds eliminate the association between childhood SES and midlife disease. Longitudinal models of incident disease across one decade show that childhood abuse in particular continues to un...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - September 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Andersson, M. A. Tags: Social Considerations in the Study of Environmental Health Source Type: research

A Multilevel Test of Constrained Choices Theory: The Case of Tobacco Clean Air Restrictions
According to Bird and Rieker’s sociology of constrained choices, decisions and priorities concerning health are shaped by the contexts—including policy, community, and work/family—in which they are formulated. While each level received attention in the original and subsequent research, we contend their constrained choices theory provides a powerful multilevel framework for modeling health outcomes. We apply this framework to tobacco clean air restrictions, combining a comprehensive database of tobacco policies with the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1997 from ages 19 to 31. Using multilevel panel m...
Source: Journal of Health and Social Behavior - September 5, 2016 Category: Global & Universal Authors: Vuolo, M., Kadowaki, J., Kelly, B. C. Tags: Socioeconomic Factors across the Life Course Source Type: research