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Social Hygiene and the Gender of Health in 1922

WEBIn 1922 the American Social Hygiene Association, funded by the American Public Health Service, created a social marketing campaign aimed at American …

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Social Inequities in Healthcare

WEBPhoto by Reese Brown, Health.mil. Medical sociologists Tania Jenkins (PhD, University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill) and Elaine Hernandez (PhD, MPH, Indiana …

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Health Tracking Technologies Class Activity

WEBPhoto of a health app on smartphone. Photo by Jason Howie, Flickr CC *~* “Teach with TSP” Contest Honorable Mention, 2018 *~* I use this in-class activity in the …

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When Poor Health Means Past Due

WEBThe biggest predictor of households missing payments for utilities, housing, or both was declines in health — even more so than losses to income. Since the …

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Sociology is Essential for Students in Medicine – and Beyond

WEBAll of our students will benefit from learning to identify the sources of a news story or read a primary source and analyze it from a sociological perspective. …

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How Discrimination Hurts Health and Personal Wellbeing

WEBIn addition, discrimination harms health by causing personal distress. Being unfairly fired from a job, for example, hurts a person’s sense of fairness and wellbeing as …

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Black Women and Health Disparities

WEBThe shockingly high maternal mortality rate for black women is the primary reason that the overall U.S. rate has risen by 250% in the past quarter century. Utibe R. …

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The Society Pages

WEBCenter for Holocaust & Genocide Studies. The Society Pages (TSP) is an open-access social science project headquartered in the Department of Sociology at the University of …

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Disease Stigma Through the Media

WEBTesting out these theories, Best and Areseniev-Koehler find that behavioral health conditions generate the most judgmental language in the media, connected to …

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New Abortion Laws Contribute to Sexist Environments that Harm …

WEBStructural sexism is also likely to increase women’s exposure to health-harming factors like violence, discrimination and harassment, stress and poor working …

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The Human Impact of a Sport-less Society

WEBIt is a highly commercialized and commodified sector used to entertain and distract. From a youth development standpoint, sport participation can serve as a …

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First-generation Students Face More Stress, But Less Depression

WEBBefore college, first-generation students are more likely to be exposed to stressors like financial strain, unmet needs, or unsafe neighborhoods. They are also …

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The New York Times notable books and gender equity

WEBWhat works. The above graphic represents the absolute volume of authors who have been mentioned in The New York Times year-end list of notable books. Since …

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Why is American health care so inaccessible

WEBU.S. health care is riddled with these burdens. Policy experts point to ballooning administrative costs as one reason our system falters when compared with …

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The Pandemic Reveals: Home, Work and Health Care …

WEBAbout Council on Contemporary Families. The Council on Contemporary Families is a non-profit, non-partisan organization dedicated to providing the press and …

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All of Inflation’s Little Parts – The New York Times

WEBAll of Inflation’s Little Parts – The New York Times. john on May 5, 2008. This interactive chart in the NYT uses shapes to represent how much the average American …

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Environmental Inequality, Class, and Life Chances

WEBThe Titanic is the classic extreme example of the relationship between social inequality and mortality, and it could be used in a class setting to begin to illustrate how …

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Inequality and Access to Mental Health Care

WEBImage: A black woman sits on the floor, leaning against a sofa, in a low-lit room.Her head is in her hands, obscuring her face. Courtesy of pixabay, Pixabay …

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Liberation Based Healing Practices: An Interview with Rhea V.

WEBRhea V. Almeida, Ph.D, is a family therapist, trainer and educator.She is the author of numerous journal articles and three books: Expansions of Feminist Theory …

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Hypotheses for the Rise of Recognized Mental Disorders

WEBThe New York Times recently published an article on the evolving Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). The DSM is the official source for …

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The Perils of Transcendence

WEBIn the weeks since Newark, New Jersey’s Democratic mayor Cory Booker admitted he found the early attack ads of this general election cycle to be “nauseating” …

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