Overview

This volume of Research in the Sociology of Health Care analyses micro-level gender issues and other social factors impacting macro-level health care systems. Examining the health and health care issues of patients and providers of care both in the United States and in other countries, chapters focus on linkages to policy and population concerns as ways to meet global health care needs.

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Sociologists and other researchers specializing in women's health and welfare present their findings on issues related to gender and cancer, pregnancy and childbirth, the use of health care and gender, gender issues outside of the US and Europe, and other gender topics. Their topics include younger women with breast cancer and treatment decision-making: rethinking patient involvement and empowerment, relationship matters: an examination of educational and racial disparities in unintended pregnancy, weight loss surgery patients: gender-differentiated experiences of vanity stigma, gender differences in health care utilization among older adults in Barbados, and handling without care: women's health experiences in jail. -- Annotation (c)2018 * (protoview.com) *

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Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is Professor Emerita in the Sociology Program, Sanford School of Social/Family Dynamics, Arizona State University, USA. Her research areas are medical sociology and aging with special focus on health policy, health care utilization and health behavior. She is co-editor of Health and Associate Editor-In-Chief of the American Journal of Health Promotion. Jennie is a past chair of Medical Sociology Section, American Sociological Association and past President of Sociologists for Women in Society.

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