Patrice Jenkins, Kristie Roberts-Lewis, Belinda Smith, Candace L Riddley
{"title":"Desensitized to Trauma: The Jackson Water Crisis, Environmental Injustice, and Implications for Public Health Social Work.","authors":"Patrice Jenkins, Kristie Roberts-Lewis, Belinda Smith, Candace L Riddley","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2558961","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2558961","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>In 2021, Jackson, Mississippi, received national attention after a winter storm caused the failure of operations at the city's largest water treatment facility. Years of neglect to a crumbling infrastructure triggered the Jackson water crisis, leaving residents without clean and reliable access to water. Predating any one administration, Black and low-income residents had long raised concerns about excessive water bills, broken water mains, poor water quality, and deterioration of the city's water system. Despite years of advocacy and concerned citizens, agenda items continued from one administration to the next without any resolution to this public health issue. For public health social workers, the Jackson water crisis represented a call to action to integrate environmental justice into practice and education, and to advocate for systemic solutions that impacted the city's most affected. The Jackson water crisis revealed how infrastructure failures threatened one's basic human right to clean water. Additionally, this crisis spotlighted an urgent need for equity-driven policies, as well as funding at both the state and federal level. Thus, creating opportunities for the social work profession to take an active role in advancing environmental justice by addressing the systemic inequities revealed by crises like Jackson's water failure. By integrating environmental justice into practice, social workers can help drive structural reforms that protect health, dignity, and community resilience.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145034592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Socioeconomic Disparities in Chronic Respiratory Diseases: A Decomposition Analysis of Health Inequalities.","authors":"Hazal Swearinger, Gülizar Gülcan Şeremet","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2558948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2558948","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study investigates socioeconomic disparities in chronic respiratory diseases and the factors contributing to these inequalities, using data from the 2019 Turkish Health Survey. Multivariate logistic regression and Oaxaca-Blinder decomposition analyses reveal that 13.10% of adults aged 25 and older in Turkey suffer from chronic respiratory diseases, with a significantly higher prevalence among lower socioeconomic status (SES) individuals. Key risk factors include older age, being female, smoking, and an unhealthy diet, with age and gender being the dominant contributors to SES-related disparities, while smoking and diet play smaller roles. Fundamental cause theory highlights how SES influences health outcomes, demonstrating the need for addressing these mechanisms through the intersection of public health and social work. Social work implications include advocating for systemic change, expanding healthcare access, and developing community programs. Public health efforts should address structural determinants, reduce environmental hazards, and ensure culturally sensitive interventions for vulnerable populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145024323","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Men in the Movement: A Gender Equality Intervention for Young Men of Color in Louisiana.","authors":"Latrice Rollins, Petrice Sams-Abiodun","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2557353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2557353","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Engaging men as advocates and change agents is a critical mechanism to challenge and reform the social and political factors that impact women's sexual and reproductive health. While there is a growing body of evidence that well-designed interventions can increase males' gender-equitable attitudes and behaviors regarding sexual and reproductive health, most studies focus on men as partners. This paper describes the development and implementation of Men in the Movement, an intervention that provides a safe space for young men of color in Baton Rouge and New Orleans, Louisiana, to consider a gender-equitable future of manhood, discuss issues that are important to them, and to empower them to become advocates and leaders in their communities. This program trained two male youth education interns to facilitate discussions with about 100 young men of color about sexual health, healthy relationships, social justice, advocacy, and leadership.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145015225","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Mental Health Challenges of Climate Change for Older Korean and Korean American Adults: Navigating Vulnerability, Isolation, and Resilience.","authors":"Suk-Hee Kim","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2557348","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2557348","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Climate change presents a growing mental health concern for older adults, particularly among Korean and Korean American populations who may experience heightened vulnerabilities due to cultural, linguistic, and socioeconomic factors. This study examines the psychological impact of climate change on this demographic, focusing on three key areas: increased vulnerability to climate-related disasters, the exacerbation of social isolation, and the role of resilience in mitigating negative outcomes. Drawing on interdisciplinary research, this study explores how environmental stressors, displacement, and disruptions to traditional support systems contribute to mental health challenges. Furthermore, it highlights protective factors such as cultural resilience, intergenerational support, and community-based interventions that can help older Korean and Korean American adults adapt to climate-related stressors. The findings underscore the need for culturally responsive mental health strategies, policy initiatives, and social support networks to promote psychological well-being and climate adaptation in aging populations.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145006696","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Ecosocial Adaptation and the Care Professions: A systems-Ecological Approach to Climate Risk.","authors":"C Taylor Brown","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2554664","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2554664","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>As climate change accelerates, it generates not only environmental disruption but a new form of multidimensional social risk - climate risk - unfolding across nested social, ecological, and institutional systems. This paper advances a systems-ecological perspective to conceptualize climate risk as a relational and stratified risk, disproportionately impacting marginalized communities. It then maps dominant adaptation frameworks - ecomodernism, post-/degrowth, sustainability, Indigenous knowledge, and environmental and climate justice, as well as environmental social work - highlighting their divergent assumptions, values, and implications for equity and resilience. Building on these perspectives, the paper introduces the concept of ecosocial adaptation, an integrative framework that foregrounds inclusion, care systems, and ecological interdependence as central to climate resilience. Care professions like social work, public health, education, and allied fields are already engaged in adaptation, yet often without a shared paradigm. This paper calls for the care professions to embrace ecosocial adaptation as a unifying framework to guide practice, pedagogy, and policy, positioning them as critical agents in climate adaptation.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-15"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-09-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144993968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Luis R Alvarez-Hernandez, Candace Robledo, Loren Clark, Jamboor K Vishwanatha, Luis R Torres-Hostos
{"title":"\"Si Te la Pones, Yo También Me la Pongo\": COVID Vaccines and Hispanic Communities at the Texas-Mexico Border Region.","authors":"Luis R Alvarez-Hernandez, Candace Robledo, Loren Clark, Jamboor K Vishwanatha, Luis R Torres-Hostos","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2550353","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2550353","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Given the disproportionate rates of COVID infections among Hispanics, this study explored factors influencing COVID vaccine uptake and inform public health messaging targeting this population. Hispanic participants (<i>n</i> = 80) were part of eight Spanish and English focus groups. Bilingual researchers transcribed interviews verbatim and conducted Reflexive Thematic Analysis. Five themes were constructed regarding factors influencing the community's uptake of the vaccines: (1) Vaccine seen as lifesaving; (2) Difficulty accessing the vaccine; (3) Vaccinated to protect others; (4) Misinformation led to fear and mistrust; (5) Others influenced perception of COVID and uptake of the vaccine. Two themes were constructed regarding factors influencing public health messaging: (1) Trusted sources of information are critical; and (2) Culturally relevant prevention and treatment messaging is needed through social media. Motivated to protect others, culturally relevant community-informed messaging via local trusted stakeholders is necessary for social workers to address health misinformation and reach Texas-Mexico border Hispanics.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-20"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144973605","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lindamarie Olson, Alberto Cabrera, John Bickel, Andrew Robinson, Chinyere Eigege, Kathryn Blanchard, James M Mandiberg, Robin E Gearing
{"title":"Medical Social Workers in Hospitals: Burnout and Secondary Trauma During the COVID-19 Pandemic.","authors":"Lindamarie Olson, Alberto Cabrera, John Bickel, Andrew Robinson, Chinyere Eigege, Kathryn Blanchard, James M Mandiberg, Robin E Gearing","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2545831","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2545831","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>COVID-19 presented numerous challenges to medical professional's mental, emotional, and physical health, including burnout and secondary trauma. As social workers served as essential and frontline workers during COVID-19, it is important to investigate the effects of the pandemic on professional burnout and secondary trauma responses. A multiracial sample of 163 medical social workers working across four hospital settings responded to a survey addressing burnout and the impact of COVID-19. Medical social workers in this sample reported high levels of emotional exhaustion and personal accomplishment and moderate levels of depersonalization. Regression analyses found that hyperarousal scores significantly predicted emotional exhaustion, identifying as Latinx and Black significantly predicted depersonalization, and being older and identifying as White significantly predicted personal accomplishment among medical social workers. Resiliency programs can be developed for medical social workers in direct practice to reduce secondary traumatic stress and increase employee well-being. Future research should employ more rigorous research designs to better understand risk and protective factors for burnout among medical social workers providing direct practice to clients and families.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-18"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144973678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Reimagining Macro Social Work to Advance Environmental Justice and Health Equity in the Climate Crisis.","authors":"Neena Albarus","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2547006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2547006","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The climate crisis, which is currently recognized as a \"threat multiplier\" by the United Nations, exacerbates health disparities, deepens structural inequities, and often disproportionately affects marginalized communities globally. While social work values maintain a commitment to social justice, dignity and worth of the person and integrity, macro-level interventions remain constrained by national and neoliberal paradigms. These limitthe profession's capacity to address global and transnational challenges such as disaster capitalism, food insecurity, and the financialization and dispossession of essential resources. As the climate crisis deepens, macro social work should reconfigure its theoretical commitments and practical applications to center environmental justice and health equity. This paper discusses the limitations of macro social work in addressing climate-induced social and public health crises and proposes a reimagining of macro practice through intersectional and interdisciplinary lenses to interrogate the structural roots of these crises.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-8"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144875919","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Trevor M Clark, Nijee N Brown, Hal Aubrey, Kwamme Anderson, Donald Hill-Eley, Henry Swanson, Elijah Cameron
{"title":"Post-Roe v. Wade: A Nutrition Intervention Strategy to Mitigate Problems Associated with Maternal Health.","authors":"Trevor M Clark, Nijee N Brown, Hal Aubrey, Kwamme Anderson, Donald Hill-Eley, Henry Swanson, Elijah Cameron","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2547924","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2547924","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Maternal health is a very serious issue that has grown unabated over time. This public health issue has grown more rapidly among underserved women in minority communities than the general population. However, it must be noted that this public health issue exists in all communities regardless of socioeconomic status. The significant difference among socioeconomic groups is the degree of healthcare access or lack of healthcare access at all. The United States Supreme Court's action overturning Roe v. Wade levied a major assault on the health of all women in this country particularly maternal health. Therefore, the primary focus of this research paper is the role of nutrition as an intervention strategy to improve women's health in general and maternal health in particular. The purpose of the multi-variate and multi-comparison design of this study was to investigate specific nutritional deficiencies that adversely impact maternal health.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-9"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144856744","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Daniel A Boamah, Leann McGraw, Betty L Wilson, Brittany Nwachuku, Shawnise Martin Miller, Dana K Harmon, Bonnie Young, Sharon E Moore, Sharon D Jones-Eversley
{"title":"Addressing Police Brutality of Black Men: Using a Trauma-Informed Approach.","authors":"Daniel A Boamah, Leann McGraw, Betty L Wilson, Brittany Nwachuku, Shawnise Martin Miller, Dana K Harmon, Bonnie Young, Sharon E Moore, Sharon D Jones-Eversley","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2540264","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2540264","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Through the broad use of technology such as phones and social media, people are more aware of various instances of police brutality. Specifically, police violence toward Black men continues to garner increased public scrutiny. The paper discusses the historical context of police violence toward Black men and the associated psychological trauma impact. The authors advocate for police reform using the Sanctuary Model of trauma-informed care approach to address the issue. Further, the implementations of trauma-informed care in police training for United States law enforcement and for Black men are presented.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2025-08-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144761707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}