Archive: Scholarship 2021
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“A Review of Health and Socioeconomic Disparities among Black Older Adults in the District of Columbia”
This report, co-written by Dr. Christopher King for the AARP District of Columbia, studies the health disparities among Black older adults living in DC.
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“Flourishing: Migration and Health in Social Context”
Emily Mendenhall and other researchers draw on case studies from three world regions, to propose concrete steps clinicians and health institutions can take in order to better serve migrant patients.
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“Introduction: Migration and Health in Social Context”
Emily Mendenhall and Seth M. Holmes introduce the BMJ Global Health journal’s issue on “Migration and Health in Social Context”, focused on the social, political and economic structural factors that impede or facilitate health among the most vulnerable migrants seeking care from clinical settings globally.
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“Towards a Rigorous Understanding of Societal Responses to Climate Change”
The team of researchers that includes Timothy Newfield and Jakob Burnham proposes an interdisciplinary framework for uncovering climate–society interactions that emphasizes the mechanics by which climate change has influenced human history, and the uncertainties of discerning that influence across spatiotemporal scales.
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“On Symbols and Scripts: The Politics of the American COVID-19 Response”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors argue that, to unravel the American COVID-19 crisis —and to craft effective responses—, a more sophisticated understanding of the political culture of public health crises is needed. According to the researchers, the social processes of meaning-making help explain the evolution of increasingly partisan public health discourse regarding topics like masking and institutional trust. They consider how and why certain issues gain political valence, and what opportunities certain acts of politicization provide in shifting public discourse.
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“A Spectrum of (Dis)Belief: Coronavirus Frames in a Rural Midwestern Town in the United States”
Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors investigate how society in rural America reacted to the coronavirus outbreaks of 2020. Without government COVID-19 mandates, conflicting moral beliefs divided American communities. Social fragmentation, based on conflicting values, led to an incomplete pandemic response in the absence of government mandates, opening the floodgates to coronavirus.
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“Transformative Experiences and A Young Doctor’s Notebook”
Dr. Daniel Marchalik and Dr. Andrew Lipsky look at LA Paul’s Transformative Experience to understand the implications and rationale behind the decision of becoming a physician.
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“Pregnant Women & Vaccines Against Emerging Epidemic Threats: Ethics Guidance for Preparedness, Research, and Response”
Maggie Little and other researchers take a look at the way in which pregnant women and their offspring have been historically excluded from research agendas and investment strategies for vaccines against epidemic threats. They offer 22 concrete recommendations to ensure that the needs of pregnant women and their offspring are fairly addressed.
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“’Thinking Too Much’: A Systematic Review of the Idiom of Distress in Sub-Saharan Africa”
In this systematic review, Emily Mendenhall and her co-authors take a look at the idiom “thinking too much”. This idiom is employed in cultural settings worldwide to express feelings of emotional and cognitive disquiet with psychological, physical, and social consequences on people’s well-being and daily functioning. The researchers analyze how, where, and among whom this idiom is used within varied Sub-Saharan African contexts.
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