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UNDERSERVED AND SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS AND LINKAGES WITH HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE DIFFERENTIALS

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH CARE

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RESEARCH IN THE SOCIOLOGY OF HEALTH CARE

UNDERSERVED AND SOCIALLY DISADVANTAGED GROUPS AND LINKAGES WITH HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE DIFFERENTIALS

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JENNIE JACOBS KRONENFELD

Arizona State University, USA

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Zinobia C. Bennefield is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. Her research interests include childhood and adolescent mental health, structural inequality and health, and the application of intersectionality theory in health research.

Jennifer M. Brailsford is an Instructor in the Care, Health, and Society program at The University of Arizona. As a medical sociologist, her research focuses on the impacts of social and physical environments on human health. Her research interests include neighborhood contexts, environmental hazards, and the stress process.

Amy M. Burdette is Professor of Sociology and an associate in the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy at Florida State University. Amy M. Burdette is Professor of Sociology and an associate in the Pepper Institute on Aging and Public Policy at Florida State University. Amy M. Burdette’s research investigates connections between religious involvement, neighborhood context, and health. Her research has examined social variations in health and health behaviors at virtually every stage of the life course from birth (e.g., low-birth weight), to adolescence (e.g., HPV vaccination, substance use), to young adulthood (e.g., BMI, sexual activity), to adulthood (e.g., breastfeeding, obesity, psychological distress, prescription drug misuse), and old age (e.g., cognitive functioning, mobility). Much of her research has paid special attention to disadvantaged populations, including low-income urban mothers.

Claudia Chaufan is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Global Health at York University in Toronto. She practiced medicine in her native Argentina, before shifting to an academic career. Her background spans medicine, sociology, comparative political economy, and philosophy. Her research and intellectual interests include the politics of health and global health in the context of capitalist globalization, medicalization and social control, language/power/discourse, and the scholarship of teaching and learning. She teaches about, and has published on, these topics in Social Science & Medicine, the International Journal of Health Services, and Critical Public Health. She is Editorial Board Member and Reviewer of academic journals, and a long-time supporter of organizations opposing Western intervention in the Global South.

Jessica Eckhardt is Assistant Professor of Sociology and Social Justice at Northland College, an environmental liberal arts school on the south shore of Lake Superior. As an environmental health sociologist, she uses frameworks and methodologies from medical sociology, environmental justice, social epidemiology, and public health to explore differential exposures to environmental hazards and how those hazards impact human health.

Terrence D. Hill is Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and a Scientific Member of the Arizona Center on Aging at the University of Arizona. His research examines the social distribution of health and health-relevant behaviors. To date, he has published over 100 peer-reviewed journal articles and book chapters. According to Google Scholar, his published work has been cited across a range of disciplines nearly 4,000 times.

Charley Henderson received MA in Sociology from Texas State University in 2018. She has been working on several research projects with Atsuko Kawakami, PhD, at Tarleton State University since 2015. While conducting research with Dr Kawakami, Ms Henderson completed her MA and published an article, “Hepatitis C and the Social Hierarchy: How Stigma Is Built in Rural Communities,” as her research interests include medical sociology, rural sociology, stigma, and viral infections.

Andrew K. Jorgenson is Professor and Chair in the Department of Sociology and Professor of Environmental Studies at Boston College. The primary area of his research is the human dimensions of global environmental change, with a focus on the drivers of greenhouse gas emissions, energy consumption, industrial pollution, and land cover change. He also conducts research on the political-economic and environmental conditions that shape population health outcomes, uneven development, income inequality, and environmental concern.

Karen E. Joseph-Kent is an Assistant Professor at DeSales University and is Director of the MBA program. She has taught health services administration for over 20 years at Xavier University and Penn State and has an extensive background in health administration leadership as an Administrator for Johns Hopkins Medicine. She received her PhD from Miami University of Ohio in Social Gerontology. She dedicates this study to Ian Kent and the myriad of caring professionals who improve the lives of people with ASD.

Atsuko Kawakami is Associate Professor of Sociology at Tarleton State University. She received PhD in sociology from Arizona State University and MA in sociology from Doshisha University, Kyoto, Japan. Her research interests include, but are not limited to, the following areas: support systems among various groups, living arrangement and health service utilization among the elderly population, and transnational identity of immigrants.

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is Professor Emerita in the Sociology Program, Sanford School of Social/Family Dynamics, Arizona State University. Her research areas are medical sociology and aging with special focus on health policy, health care utilization, and health behavior. She is Coeditor of Health and Associate Editor-In-Chief for American Journal of Health Promotion. She is a past Chair of Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association and past President of Sociologists for Women in Society.

Jennifer McDonald’s research interests include women’s health and international health policy. She has presented research at the American Sociological Association Conference, has spoken at the Canadian Coalition for Global Health Research University Conference, and has been a delegate at the World Health Assembly. Jennifer enjoys traveling and plans to attend medical school in the next two years.

Kristine M. Molina, PhD, is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of California-Irvine. She earned a joint PhD in Psychology (Personality & Social Contexts) and Women’s Studies from the University of Michigan. Her research focuses on how different dimensions of inequality, often resulting from racism, become embodied at multiple levels to affect health across the life course among racialized groups.

Ethel Nicdao, PhD, is Professor and Chair of Sociology at California State University, San Bernardino. Trained as a medical sociologist, her work centers on health disparities among minority populations. Her current research applies a community-based participatory research and intersectionality approach to examine the mental health and well-being of adults in San Joaquin and San Bernardino counties. She completed her doctoral training at the University of New Mexico and postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Washington.

Ignatius Uche Nwankwo, PhD, is Associate Professor of Medical Sociology at the Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Nnamdi Azikiwe University, Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. He has taught sociology for more than a decade and served as Head of Department from 2012 to 2014. Currently, he is the Sub-Dean for Postgraduate Studies in the Faculty of Social Sciences. His research interests cut across health policy and finance, gender and health, sociocultural determinants of health services access, evaluation of health programs and the administration of public health law, etc.

Kim Price-Glynn, PhD, is Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of Connecticut. She was the inaugural recipient of the University of Connecticut College of Liberal Arts and Sciences Faculty Achievement Award for Excellence in Teaching. Her research examines gender, labor, health and caregiving in diverse organizational settings, from nursing homes to strip clubs. She is the author of Strip Club: Gender, Power and Sex Work, New York University Press (2010). She has also published in Gender & Society; Sociology of Health & Illness; Research in the Sociology of Health Care; and Work, Employment & Society, as well as other journals and the edited volume, Caring on the Clock.

Valentina Raffa, PhD, is a Researcher of Sociology in the Department of Cognitive Science, Educational and Cultural Studies (CSECS), University of Messina. Her research focuses on social exclusion, social marginality, social movements, new political identities, postcolonial studies, urban art, sociology of development, and sociology of health. She worked on several national and international projects.

Carter Rakovski, PhD, is Professor of Sociology at California State University Fullerton. She studies gender and work. She also applies statistical methods in her interdisciplinary work. Her research has been published in a range of journals including the Sociology of Health and Illness, Work, Employment and Society, Disability and Rehabilitation, and the Journal of Accounting Research.

Fernando I. Rivera is Professor of Sociology and Director of the Puerto Rico Research Hub at the University of Central Florida. His research interests and activities are in the sociology of health/medical sociology, disasters, and race and ethnicity. He earned his MA and PhD in Sociology from the University of Nebraska-Lincoln. He also completed a postdoctoral fellowship at Rutgers University.

Anne Scheer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Population Science and Policy at Southern Illinois University School of Medicine. She holds a master's degree in Anthropology and a PhD in Sociology – both from Freie Universität Berlin, Germany. Her research interests include obesity and nutritional health in rural communities, school discipline in US public education, and the ways in which childhood trauma/toxic stress relate to children's health and their experiences with school discipline. As a qualitative childhood sociologist, she has conducted extensive research with elementary school-aged children, using participant observation and interviews, including research about punitive disciplinary policies in a large Midwestern school district, and her current study about rural children's perspectives on health, well-being, and nutrition.

Juyeon Son is Associate Professor in Sociology at University of Wisconsin Oshkosh. She received her MA in Women’s Studies from Rutgers University in 1998 and her PhD in Sociology from the University of Oregon in 2007. Dr Son is a medical sociologist and has published articles that examine issues such as health service utilization and immigrant incorporation, postpartum care, health disparities, transnationalism, and technology. Her current research is on end-of-life and palliative care.

Jessica Valles is a Doctoral Student in the Department of Sociology, and a Research Fellow for the Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. She received her MA in Sociology from the University of North Florida in 2014. Her research focuses on mental health for immigrant and aging populations, as well as racial and ethnic disparities in caregiving and familial support.

Francesca Alice Vianello, PhD, is Lecturer in Sociology of Work at the University of Padua (Italy). Her main areas of research are migration, gender, and labor. She leads the research project “Migration and Occupational Health: Understanding the Risks for Eastern European Migrant Women” funded by the University of Padua under the STARS Grants program. She is one of the regional representatives for Europe of the RC 32 “Women in Society” of the International Sociological Association.