Education, Social Factors And Health Beliefs In Health And Health Care

by Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld (Editor)

Overview

This volume provides a unique sociological focus on education, social factors and health beliefs in health and health care, including a review of the literature to date. Beliefs and health beliefs are considered, including one study evaluating cross-national differences in public beliefs about the causes of health and the role of these beliefs in shaping attitudes to health policy. Another study focuses on the complexity and variation of health care system distrust across neighborhoods in one US city. The topic of education is addressed, including a focus on the importance of identification and intervention in low health literacy. Mental health issues are considered in the context of help-seeking, connections, transitions and utilization of care among adolescents. Social factors are reflected upon including race and ethnicity, literacy and socioeconomic status. Coverage also includes special and traditionally less visible populations, including the health of prisoners and carers of people with autism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781785603679
Publisher:	Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Publication date:	09/21/2015
Series:	Research in the Sociology of Health Care , #33
Pages:	312
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.83(d)

Table of Contents

List of Contributors ix

Part I Introduction to Volume

Education, Other Social Factors, and Health Beliefs and Health Care Services Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld 3

Part II Beliefs and Health Beliefs

The Politics of Health Beliefs: Cross-National Evidence Jason Schnittker 17

Examining the Complexity and Variation of Health Care System Distrust Across Neighborhoods: Implications for Preventive Health Care Tse-Chuan Yang I-Chien Own Aggie J. Noah 43

Part III Education

Identifying and Mapping "Hot Spots" of Low Health Literacy: A Potential Tool to Guide Intervention Laurie T. Martin Teague Ruder José J. Escarce Bonnie Ghosh-Dastidar Daniel Sherman Marc N. Elliott Chloe E. Bird Allen Fremont Charles Gasper Arthur Culbert Nicole Lurie 69

Education and Self-Awareness of Health: Toward a Better Understanding of Self-Rated Health Heeju Sohn 85

Part IV Mental Health

Psychological Distress, Nativity, and Help-Seeking Among Filipino Americans Ethel G. Nicdao Aileen A. Duldulao David T. Takeuchi 107

Connections and Transitions in Mental Health Care Organizations and Systems Michael Polgar 121

Personal Religiosity and Mental Health Care Utilization Among Adolescents Thomas Christian Quinn Rebecca L. Utz 139

Part V Other Social Factors

Racial and Ethnic Differences in Trust in Sources of Health Information: A Generalized Distrust in Physicians Celeste Campos-Castillo 163

"It's Not the Doctor - It's Me": How Self-Blame Obscures Language and Other Structural Barriers to Diabetes Care Among Low-Income Latinos With Limited English Proficiency Claudia Chaufan Hegla Fielding Catherine Chesla Alicia Fernandez 187

Race and Socioeconomic Status: Public Perceptions Toward Quality and Access to Care in the Affordable Care Act Neale R. Chumbler Samir P. Desai Justin B. Ingels Kevin K. Dobbin 209

A Place to Trust: Black Protestant Affiliation and Trust in Personal Physicians Abigail A. Sewell Rashawn Ray 229

Part VI Special Types of Care Settings

Support for HIV Testing and HIV Criminalization Among Offenders Under Community Supervision Brad Barber Bronwen Lichtenstein 253

Becoming an Expert Autism Caregiver: Health Literacy and Community Catalysts Cava A. Chiaraluce 275