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ArticleSocial science & medicine (1982)2021

Theory and empiricism: A comment on "Interrogating the environmental affordances model" by Pamplin and colleagues.

Briana Mezuk, Juan Del Toro, Margaret Gough Courtney, Keri F Kirk, Xing Zhang, Erica C Spears, Tiffany Green, Hedwig Lee, Darrell Hudson

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Article in Social science & medicine (1982), 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

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9 authors.

Briana MezukCenter for Social Epidemiology and Population Health, Department of Epidemiology, University of Michigan School of Public Health, USA. Electronic address: bmezuk@umich.edu.
Juan Del ToroLearning Research and Development Center, University of Pittsburgh, USA.
Margaret Gough CourtneyDepartment of Sociology and Anthropology, University of La Verne, USA.
Keri F KirkDepartment of Family Medicine, Georgetown School of Medicine, Medstar Georgetown University Hospital, USA.
Xing ZhangCollege of Health Solutions, Arizona State University, USA.
Erica C SpearsSchool of Public Health, University of North Texas Health Science Center, USA.
Tiffany GreenDepartments of Populations Health Sciences and Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA.
Hedwig LeeCenter for the Study of Race, Ethnicity and Equity, Department of Sociology, Washington University in St. Louis, USA.
Darrell HudsonBrown School at Washington University in St. Louis, USA.

Funding

Summer Training Program in Integrative Methods for Mental and Physical HealthR25AT010664 · NCCIH · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MEZUK, BRIANA · 2020 to 2023
$1.0M
Summer Training Program in Integrative Methods for Mental and Physical HealthR25MH136652 · NIMH · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI Briana Mezuk · 2024 to 2026
$441k
NCCIH NIH HHS R25 AT010664NIMH NIH HHS R25 MH136652
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

We strongly support efforts to generate, rigorously test, and falsify hypotheses derived from the Environmental Affordances (EA) Model of Health Disparities, as originated by the late Dr. James S. Jackson (1940-2020). Such efforts are critical to establishing robust, theoretically grounded scientific frameworks that explain the fundamental causes of racial disparities in health and wellbeing. Pamplin et al. (2021) fundamentally misrepresents the EA Model as a framework that (falsely) reifies the role of race as a determinant of health behaviors and health outcomes. Further, both their study design and analytic approach are inappropriate for testing predictions of this framework. We address these issues with the goal of recentering the scholarly conversation about how stress contributes to health, and disparities in health, over the life course.

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EmpiricismModels, TheoreticalHumansResearch DesignConceptual modelsDisparitiesMental healthScientific rigorTheory development

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PMID34352508
PMCPMC8476829

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