ReviewJournal of health and social behavior2021
Trends in U.S. Population Health: The Central Role of Policies, Politics, and Profits.
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- Public Policies in Historical Context and the Association Between Education and US Older Adults' Health.The Milbank quarterly · 2026Article
- US State Policy Contexts and Mental Health Among Working-Age Adults.The Milbank quarterly · 2026Article
- Causes of Excess Deaths in the US Compared With Other High-Income Countries.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Changes in the Education-Health Gradient Within U.S. States, 1993-2019.Population research and policy review · 2026Article
- Mapping Mental Health Across US States: the Role of Economic and Social Support Policies.The Milbank quarterly · 2025Article
- Variation in Black and White Life Expectancy Across State Policy Groups, 1990-2019: A Research Note.Demography · 2025Article
- Increasing Educational Inequality in Biological Aging Among U.S. Adults Aged 50-79 From 1988-1994 to 2015-2018.Demography · 2025Article
- Longitudinal Associations From US State/Local Police and Social Service Expenditures to Suicides and Police-Perpetrated Killings Between Black and White Residents.The Milbank quarterly · 2025Article
- Trends in disability and limitations among US adults aged 18-44 years, 2000-2018.American journal of epidemiology · 2025Article
- Evolution of the US nonmetropolitan mortality disadvantage by sex, state, and year, 1999-2019.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- The urban-rural gap in older Americans' healthy life expectancy.The Journal of rural health : official journal of the American Rural Health Association and the National Rural Health Care Association · 2025Article
- State-Level Paid Sick Leave Policies and Population Mental Health during the COVID-19 Pandemic in the United States.Society and mental health · 2024Article
- A Lack of Food for Thought: Midlife Food Insecurity and Its Association With Subsequent Cognitive Ability of Older Americans.The journals of gerontology. Series B, Psychological sciences and social sciences · 2024Article
- Re-politicizing the WHO's social determinants of health framework.Health promotion international · 2024Article
- Anxious Activists? Examining Immigration Policy Threat, Political Engagement, and Anxiety among College Students with Different Self/Parental Immigration Statuses.Journal of health and social behavior · 2024Article
- Structural Sexism and Preventive Health Care Use in the United States.Journal of health and social behavior · 2024Article
- Native American "deaths of despair" and economic conditions.Research in social stratification and mobility · 2024Article
- Is fair representation good for children? effects of electoral partisan bias in state legislatures on policies affecting children's health and well-being.Social science & medicine (1982) · 2023Article
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Abstract
Recent trends in U.S. health have been mixed, with improvements among some groups and geographic areas alongside declines among others. Medical sociologists have contributed to the understanding of those disparate trends, although important questions remain. In this article, we review trends since the 1980s in key indicators of U.S. health and weigh evidence from the last decade on their causes. To better understand contemporary trends in health, we propose that commonly used conceptual frameworks, such as social determinants of health, should be strengthened by prominently incorporating commercial, political-economic, and legal determinants. We illustrate how these structural determinants can provide new insights into health trends, using disparate health trajectories across U.S. states as an example. We conclude with suggestions for future research: focusing on structural causes of health trends and inequalities, expanding interdisciplinary perspectives, and integrating methods better equipped to handle the complexity of causal processes driving health trends and inequalities.
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