{"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":"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":"53-66"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","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}
Christa C Gilliam, Leah Prussia, Yolanda Machado-Escudero, Natalie Moore-Bembry, Ericka N Covington, Raymond Adams
{"title":"Confronting the Climate Crisis: Strategies for Equity and Resilience.","authors":"Christa C Gilliam, Leah Prussia, Yolanda Machado-Escudero, Natalie Moore-Bembry, Ericka N Covington, Raymond Adams","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2630151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2026.2630151","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":"41 3","pages":"185-188"},"PeriodicalIF":1.4,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"147272370","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":"Development and Validation of a Healthy Aging Scale: A Preliminary Study in Beijing.","authors":"Haiping Chen, Wanlin Zhao, Minmin Luo","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2576104","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2576104","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This study aims to develop and test a Healthy Aging Scale (HAS) for Chinese elders. Using purposive sampling, 367 older adults in Beijing participated in the questionnaire survey. Four exploratory factor analyses were performed to identify the underlying factor structure of the HAS. The reliability tests and hierarchical regression analyses were employed to check the internal consistency reliability and the criterion-related validity of the HAS. Based on the results of data analysis, the 51 original items of the HAS were reduced to 46 and a five-factor solution was generated for the HAS, including physical functioning, cognitive functioning, an ability to perform activities of daily living, psychological well-being, and a sense of social engagement. The HAS demonstrated both high reliability and high criterion-related validity. The HAS can be applied to the provision of social work services related to the promotion of healthy aging among older adults.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"146-159"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145336688","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}
Cristian Meier, Terry Peak, Lily Ward, Jessica Lucero
{"title":"Field-Driven Best Practices for Conducting Community Needs Assessments in Rural Areas.","authors":"Cristian Meier, Terry Peak, Lily Ward, Jessica Lucero","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2561053","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2561053","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>A three-stage community needs assessment process is the gold standard in conducting community assessments; however, social workers working in rural communities should consider best practices when working in rural areas. Within the community needs assessment literature, there are no rural specific identified best practices to enhance the experiences of social workers and community members engaged in the process. To identify these field driven best practices, we conducted interviews with professionals who had a history of conducting rural community needs assessments. Four best practices emerged from these interviews (<i>N</i> = 17) including using participatory approaches throughout the needs assessment process, investing in relationship building, using investigator-specific methods that came from experiences in the field, and the use of tools for conducting needs assessments. Social workers should be intentional about their use of foundational macro skills that align with the field driven best practices that emerged in the current study.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"102-117"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145076382","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}
Luke Muentner, Alycia Chmielewski, Rebecca Freese, Carrie Henning-Smith, Rebecca Shlafer
{"title":"Adverse Childhood Experiences, Mental Health, and Access to Treatment: Differences Among Rural and Urban Youth.","authors":"Luke Muentner, Alycia Chmielewski, Rebecca Freese, Carrie Henning-Smith, Rebecca Shlafer","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2573795","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2573795","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are associated with poor adolescent mental health. Despite evidence that ACEs may be more prevalent in rural communities, it remains underexplored how region moderates the association between ACEs and mental health, as well as how access to treatment may vary across regions. Data for this study come from the 2019 Minnesota Student Survey, a state-wide survey of 125,375 adolescents. Results suggest that cumulative ACEs and certain mental health conditions (i.e. suicidality) were more common among town and rural youth compared to city and suburban youth. Even after adjusting for ACEs, town and rural youth who endorsed a mental health problem were less likely to receive treatment compared to urban peers. The findings have implications for social work and public health responses that reduce ACEs, particularly in rural communities, and expand treatment options for adolescent mental health in more remote settings.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"135-145"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145276235","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":"Leveraging Legal Determinants of Health (LDOH) for Climate Justice and Collective Wellbeing.","authors":"Jean E Balestrery","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2614514","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2026.2614514","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Despite ongoing debates about what is causing our changing climate, we know this change is real. Extreme weather events are occurring at a larger never-before-seen scale and with more frequency. The impact of extreme weather events has resulted in devastating health consequences: physical illnesses, mental health problems, displacement and in the most dire of situations the loss of human life. Further, some communities are disproportionately affected by climate change and experience heightened vulnerability. This article presents the legal determinants of health (LDOH) framework as an optimal strategy to advance climate justice and collective wellbeing. It does so through an equity lens. The LDOH framework supports the United Nations' <i>2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development</i>, comprised of 17 Sustainable Development Goals that advance human rights and prosperity for all, and significantly influences global-to-local health and equity. Viewing health as a human right requires expanding beyond social determinants of health as a site for intervention and toward structural intervention, specifically LDOH. LDOH refer to macrolevel factors, including laws, policies, institutional practices and governance processes that structure the social determinants of health. The power of leveraging LDOH for climate justice and collective wellbeing is addressed through a discussion of multiple case examples. In conclusion, social workers are identified as critically important in climate justice advocacy for public health and collective wellbeing.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"255-265"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145991375","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":"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":"15-32"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","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":"Classes of Racism and Suicide Risk Among Black Emerging Adults.","authors":"Sean Joe, Enoch Azasu, Robert O Motley","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2558949","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2558949","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This cross-sectional study investigates the relationship between three distinct types of racism-based experiences (i.e. hostile, aversive-hostile, and avoidant) and suicide risk among Black emerging adults. Computer assisted surveys were administered to a sample of 300 Black emerging adult college students. Increased exposure to hostile racism was linked to higher risk of suicidal ideation and attempts, whereas an increase in exposure to aversive-hostile racism was associated with a decreased likelihood of experiencing suicidal ideation. These findings underscore the complex and multifaceted nature of the relationship between racism-based experiences and suicide risk for Black emerging adults. Implications for research, practice, and policy are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"67-77"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2026-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12967311/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145070862","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"East Harlem's Asthma Counselor Program During COVID: Maintaining Service Continuity and Understanding Family Needs in a Community-Based Child Asthma Management Program.","authors":"Nicole Dreisbach, Safiya Campbell, Omar Castillo, Héctor Correa, Felipa Marquez Chien, Dodrie Escoffery, Stephanie Plasencia","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2509508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/19371918.2025.2509508","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Little is known about how child asthma management programs, and their participants, fared during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic. We describe the primary modifications made to a child asthma management program in East Harlem, NYC, to maintain service continuity during this time. Two questions guide our analysis: 1) To what extent did the program's primary service delivery activities change between the year before the pandemic and the pandemic's first year?; and 2) To what extent did the needs of children and families in the program change between the year before the pandemic and the pandemic's first year? This study found fewer enrollments during the first year of the pandemic than the previous year. There was also a shift in social service needs, especially an increase in food insecurity during COVID's first year. The program's social workers were able to pivot to develop strategies for supporting these shifting needs.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"1-14"},"PeriodicalIF":1.7,"publicationDate":"2025-05-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144144135","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":"The Impact of Job Resources on Job Satisfaction, Emotion, and Psychological Health Among Social Workers in China.","authors":"Yichao Wu, Di Qi","doi":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2462552","DOIUrl":"10.1080/19371918.2025.2462552","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Social work is a caring profession, as social workers are required to provide psychological support and emotional caring for clients. If social workers have psychological distress, low job satisfaction, and conflicting job emotions, their services for the clients will be severely affected. To achieve the goal of better serving others, social workers should have a good state of mind. Their psychological health, job emotions, and satisfaction are thus extremely important to their career. Our findings show job support, job autonomy, and job task can be very effective ways to improve social workers' psychological well-being.</p>","PeriodicalId":46944,"journal":{"name":"Social Work in Public Health","volume":" ","pages":"149-158"},"PeriodicalIF":1.0,"publicationDate":"2025-05-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143256958","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}