Health and Health Care Concerns among Women and Racial and Ethnic Minorities

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is Professor Emerita in the Sociology Program, Sanford School of Social and Family Dynamics, Arizona State University. Her research areas are medical sociology and aging and the life course with special focus on health policy, health care utilization and health behavior. She is coeditor of Health and Associate Editor In Chief, American Journal of Health Promotion. She has served in many roles with the American Sociological Association (ASA) including as Chair of the Medical Sociology Section and other positions in this group. She is a past President of Sociologists for Women in Society.

Contributed by sociologists and health specialists from the US, UK, Canada, and Brazil, the 13 essays in this collection examine health and health care issues among women and minorities in the US, UK, and Canada. They consider women and reproductive-related health and health care concerns, including the relationship of pregnancy intentions to breastfeeding duration, the role of insurance and poverty in abortion care, the patient-health care worker relationship and its effect on patient views toward vaccination during pregnancy, and health-seeking behaviors for infertility; aspects related to health care practitioners, including emotional burnout among maternity support workers, how clinicians make sense of structural barriers to diabetes care among US Latinos with limited English proficiency, and racial residential segregation and the distribution of auxiliary health care practitioners across urban space; and aspects related to racial and ethnic minorities, with discussion of issues of dual diagnosis among US adults, the hypertension experiences of black men, the influence of health care utilization and social characteristics on health outcomes among elderly Asian Americans, behavioral functioning among Mexican-origin children, race and ethnic differences in care-seeking, and demographics and female smoking.

• Part 1 – Introduction to Volume Title: Health, Health Care and Women and Racial and Ethnic Minorities; Jennie Jacobs KronenfeldPart 2 – Women and Reproductive Related Health and Health Care ConcernsChapter 1 Title: The Relationship of Pregnancy Intentions to Breastfeeding Duration: A New Evaluation; Michael Seth Friedson, Mikaila Mariel Lemonik Arthur and Allison Pope BurgerChapter 2 Title: Taking Insurance in Abortion Care: Policy, Practices, and the Role of Poverty; Katrina Kimport and Brenly RowlandChapter 3 Title: The patient-healthcare worker relationship: how does it affect patient views towards vaccination during pregnancy?; Rose Jane Wilson, Tracey Chantler, Shelley Lees, Pauline Patterson, and Heidi LarsonChapter 4 Title: An Examination of State-Level Mandates for Insurance Coverage On Health Seeking Behaviors for Infertility; Nicole Maki WellerPart 3 – Health Care Practitioners and Health and Health CareChapter 5 Title: Bearing the Burden of Care: Emotional Burnout Among Maternity Support Workers; Miriam Naiman-Sessions, Megan M. Henley and Louise Marie RothChapter 6 Title: “Lost in translation”: How clinicians make sense of structural barriers to diabetes care among US Latinos with limited English proficiency; Claudia Chaufan, Mi-Kyung Hong and Alicia FernandezChapter 7 Title: Racial Residential Segregation and the Distribution of Auxiliary Health Care Practitioners across Urban Space; Kate AndersonPart 4 – Racial and Ethnic Minorities and Health and Health CareChapter 8 Title: Nativity, Race-Ethnicity, and Dual Diagnosis among US Adults; Magdalena Szaflarski, Shawn Bauldry, Lisa A. Cubbins and Karthikeyan MeganathanChapter 9 Title: PhD - Hypertension Experiences of Black Men: A Critical Narrative Study; Rob Haile, Debbie Laliberte Rudman and Lilian MagalhãesChapter 10 Title: - Influence of Healthcare Utilization and Social Characteristics On Health Outcomes among Elderly Asian Americans: A Structural Equation Analysis; Jacob Chao-Lun HuangChapter 11 Title: Behavioral Functioning among Mexican-Origin Children: The Roles of Parental Legal Status and the Neighborhood Context; Aggie J. Noah and Nancy S. LandaleChapter 12 Title: Do You Want to See a Doctor for That? Contextualizing Racial and Ethnic Differences in Care-Seeking; Emily Walton and Denise AnthonyChapter 13 Title: Changing Patterns of Female Smoking: A Comparison of Workers and Full-time Homemakers by Class, Race and Community Type; William C. Cockerham, Bryant W. Hamby, Shawn Bauldry and Patricia Drentea