{"title":"Immigrant Health Advantage? The Birth Outcomes of U.S.-Born Women in Mexico and Mexican-Origin Women in the United States","authors":"Erin R. Hamilton, Sara Alcay","doi":"10.1177/00221465251343322","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251343322","url":null,"abstract":"The migration of Mexican immigrants and their U.S.-born children from the United States to Mexico raises questions about the health of American citizens transitioning into adulthood in Mexico. Combining data from Mexican and U.S. birth records from 2015 to 2019, we analyzed the health of 12,373 infants born to U.S.-born women delivering in Mexico and compared them to infants born to Mexican-born women in Mexico, Mexican-born women in the United States, and U.S.-born women of Mexican origin in the United States. Contrary to the immigrant health advantage in the United States, we found an infant health disadvantage for U.S.-born immigrants in Mexico. U.S.-born mothers in Mexico were younger and had lower rates of health insurance coverage, but these differences did not account for their higher likelihood of adverse infant health outcomes.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-07-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144534087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"School Modality Options, COVID Concerns, and Parents' Stress.","authors":"Olivia Gruwell,Daniel L Carlson,Richard J Petts","doi":"10.1177/00221465251340421","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251340421","url":null,"abstract":"COVID-19 led to substantial increases in parents' stress due partially to the challenges of home education. The highly politicized decision to reopen schools in person in fall 2020, nevertheless, was not associated with reductions in parents' stress. Using a stress process perspective, we argue that the association of school modality with parents' stress in fall 2020 likely depended on parents' COVID concerns. Analysis of survey data from November 2020 shows that incompatibility between parents' COVID concerns and children's school modalities were associated with greater stress. Parents with no concerns reported the lowest stress when children learned in person and the highest stress when children were mandated to learn virtually. Among parents with COVID concerns, the opposite was true. Because few parents expressed no COVID concerns, in-person learning was more often associated with higher stress than lower stress, helping explain why school reopening did not markedly improve U.S. parents' mental health.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"592 1","pages":"221465251340421"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144296138","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Sexual Orientation and Social Isolation from Early Adulthood to Early Midlife","authors":"Zhiyong Lin, Kara Joyner, Wendy D. Manning","doi":"10.1177/00221465251340020","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/00221465251340020","url":null,"abstract":"Although social isolation is a critical public health issue, there is a gap in understanding how it varies by sexual orientation. Using minority stress, minority strength, and life course perspectives, this study investigates how social isolation trajectories differ by sexual orientation from ages 18 to 42 using longitudinal data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (2001–2018, N = 30,250 observations). Results from growth curve models reveal that sexual minority respondents experience higher levels of isolation than heterosexual respondents from early adulthood to early midlife. Specifically, respondents who identify as lesbian, gay, or bisexual report the highest levels of social isolation; completely heterosexual respondents have the lowest levels; and mostly heterosexual respondents fall in between. Notably, mostly heterosexual respondents experience a more rapid increase in isolation than the other two groups. Analyses conducted separately by sex and each dimension of social isolation reveal important nuances.","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":"22 1","pages":"221465251340020"},"PeriodicalIF":5.0,"publicationDate":"2025-06-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144296133","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Patient-Centered Care in Action: How Clinicians Respond to Patient Dissatisfaction with Contraceptive Side Effects.","authors":"Sara Johnsen","doi":"10.1177/00221465241262029","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241262029","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Patient-centered care is widely cited as a component of quality contraceptive health care, but its operationalization in clinical interaction is contested. This article examines patient-centered care as an interactional phenomenon using the case of patient dissatisfaction with side effects of hormonal contraceptive medications. Drawing on transcript data from 109 tape-recorded reproductive health visits, I find that provider responses to treatment dissatisfaction range from patient-centered to relatively authoritarian. Providers typically offer patient-centered responses that validate patient experiences and integrate them into contraceptive counseling and method selection. At the same time, explicit communication about patients' contraceptive priorities is rare. In its absence, providers use patient-centered communication to smooth the interactional path toward uptake of highly effective hormonal methods, mostly ignoring the possibility that some patients may prefer less effective methods. Patient-centered contraceptive care was circumscribed by the clinical goal of pregnancy prevention.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"197-211"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141894874","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Resilience or Risk? Evaluating Three Pathways Linking Hispanic Immigrant Networks and Health.","authors":"Caroline V Brooks","doi":"10.1177/00221465241261710","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241261710","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>There are competing perspectives on the impact of Hispanic immigrants' social networks on health; the Hispanic health paradox views networks as sources of resilience, whereas the tenuous ties perspective views networks as sources of risk. In this study, I explore the effect of networks on health by examining three network pathways: social capital, social bonding, and network stress. Using egocentric social network data from the VidaSana Study, a survey of 547 Hispanic immigrants in Indiana, I investigate how each network pathway is associated with physical health, mental health, and health care utilization. Results show that networks with greater capital, namely, more network health knowledge, promote physical health and health care access, whereas social bonding, operationalized as close and dense networks, benefits mental health and health care utilization. Network stress contributes to worse mental health yet improved health care access. Implications for social networks and health research among the Hispanics and more broadly are discussed.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"242-258"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857059","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Marked by Association(s): A Social Network Approach to Investigating Mental Health-Related Associative Stigma.","authors":"Elizabeth Felix","doi":"10.1177/00221465241261711","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241261711","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>With most scholarly attention directed toward understanding the stigma experiences of individuals with mental illness, less attention has been given to associative stigma: an understudied form of social exclusion and devaluation experienced by the social ties of stigmatized individuals. This study advances scholarly understanding of associative stigma by drawing on social network methods to better illuminate how the quantity and quality of social relationships with those dealing with mental illness impact experiences of perceived discrimination. Using a nationally representative sample from the General Social Survey, I find that (1) knowing more people with mental illness, (2) having more core (friends and family members) versus peripheral ties, and (3) having ties who are most at risk of facing public stigma themselves (e.g., stereotype-confirming ties) are associated with greater perceived discrimination experiences. Taken together, these findings shed light on how pervasive associative stigma truly is.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"259-275"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141857058","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michael A Garcia, Belinda L Needham, Bridget J Goosby, Robert A Hummer, Hui Liu, Debra Umberson
{"title":"Death of a Parent, Racial Inequities, and Cardiovascular Disease Risk in Early toMid-adulthood.","authors":"Michael A Garcia, Belinda L Needham, Bridget J Goosby, Robert A Hummer, Hui Liu, Debra Umberson","doi":"10.1177/00221465241273870","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241273870","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Black Americans experience the death of a parent much earlier in the life course than White Americans on average. However, studies have not considered whether the cardiovascular health consequences of early parental death vary by race. Using data from the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health, we explore associations between early parental death and cardiovascular disease (CVD) risk in early to mid-adulthood (N = 4,193). We find that the death of a parent during childhood or adolescence (ages 0-17) or the transition to adulthood (ages 18-27) is associated with increased CVD risk for Black Americans, whereas parental death following the transition to adulthood (ages 28+) undermines cardiovascular health for both Black Americans and White Americans. These findings illustrate how a stress and life course perspective can help inform strategies aimed at addressing both the unequal burden of bereavement and high cardiovascular risk faced by Black Americans.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"165-181"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11971391/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142378602","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racial Capitalism and Black-White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis.","authors":"Reed T DeAngelis","doi":"10.1177/00221465241260103","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465241260103","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Scholars cite racist political-economic systems as drivers of health inequities in the United States (i.e., racial capitalism). But <i>how</i> does racial capitalism generate health inequities? I address this open question within the historical context of predatory lending during the 2008 financial crisis. Relevant hypotheses are tested with multiple waves of data from Black and White participants of the National Longitudinal Study of Adolescent to Adult Health (N = 8,877). Across socioeconomic strata, I find that Black participants report higher rates of foreclosure, eviction, repossession, delinquent bills, lost income, and new debts in the wake of the financial crisis. Using structural equation and quasi-experimental models, I then show that Black participants also self-report rapid health declines and increases in prescription drug abuse throughout this period, much of which is explained by chronic financial stress. I conclude that racial capitalism can generate health inequities by ensnaring Black Americans in a toxic web of financial exploitation and stress proliferation.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"148-164"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11779970/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141794061","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Racial Capitalism and Black-White Health Inequities in the United States: The Case of the 2008 Financial Crisis.","authors":"Reed T DeAngelis","doi":"10.1177/00221465251338975","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465251338975","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"147"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129550","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Emergence versus Reductionism in Science Publications.","authors":"Troy Duster","doi":"10.1177/00221465251335041","DOIUrl":"10.1177/00221465251335041","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Just a few years after the U.S. government's decision to fully fund the Human Genome Project (HGP) in 1990, an important harbinger of things to come was the publication of the controversial 1994 book <i>The Bell Curve</i> by Richard J. Herrnstein and Charles Murray. The authors' most controversial claim was that human intelligence was at least 60 percent genetic. At that time, the national advisory group to the HGP, the Ethical Legal and Social Implications committee (ELSI) requested that the <i>American Journal of Human Genetics</i> critique and respond to the authors' claim. The editorial board of the journal refused on the grounds that \"this book was about behavioral genetics\" while the HGP was about human molecular genetics. Members of ELSI committee argued vigorously that this distinction between different forums and platforms used to explain human genetic variation would soon collapse and merge. However, it was only a matter of time before behavioral geneticists would claim the legitimacy of being under the mantle of molecular genetics. In this address, I show just how prescient the ELSI group had been. Much of the answer lies in the reward structure for science publications that strongly favor reductionism versus emergence.</p>","PeriodicalId":51349,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Health and Social Behavior","volume":" ","pages":"139-146"},"PeriodicalIF":6.3,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC12125487/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144129548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}