Increasingly, policymakers are looking to sociologists to provide guidance for promoting population and community health and reducing social disparities in health and health care. Much of the research published in the Journal of Health and Social Behavior is directly relevant to these policy concerns. A one-page policy brief is developed for one or more articles from each issue for policymakers and other audiences. These policy briefs illustrate the link between basic sociological research on health and health in the “real world.”
2024
March: Is Structural Sexism Associated with Preventive Health Care Use among Women and Men?
2023
March: Income Inequality and Population Health: Examining the Role of Social Policy
June: Differences in Determinants: Racialized Obstetric Care and Increases in U.S. State Labor Induction Rates
September: The Effect of Welfare State Policy Spending on the Equalization of Socioeconomic Status Disparities in Mental Health
December: How Does Abortion Legislation Affect Reproductive Health Care Professionals Who Work in Settings Other than Abortion Clinics?
2022
March: State-Level Sexism and Gender Disparities in Health Care Access and Quality in the United States
June: Criminalization of Care: Drug Testing Pregnant Patients
September: Surveillance, Self-Governance, and Mortality: The Impact of Prescription Drug Monitoring Programs on U.S. Overdose Mortality, 2000-2016
December: Racial/Ethnic Residential Clustering and Early COVID-19 Vaccine Allocations in Five Urban Texas Counties
2021
March: Mothers’ Out-of-Sequence Postsecondary Education and their Health and Health Behaviors
June: “We’re a Little Biased”: Medicine and the Management of Bias Through the Case of Contraception
December: Losing Years Doing Time: Incarceration Exposure and Accelerated Biological Aging among African American Adults
2020
