Ellis Rubinstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 655427 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ellis Rubinstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ellis |
| FAMILY NAME | Rubinstein |
| SIGNATURE | RUBINSTEIN E |
| AFFILIATIONS | North Dakota State University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4299-021X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 13 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Perceived Stigma in Major Depressive Disorder
BACKGROUND: Perceived stigma in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a well-established barrier to help-seeking, social functioning, and quality of life. However, little is known about how stigma is shaped by cultural context and which psychosocial resources may buffer its effects. AIMS: This study aimed to examine the relationship between perceived stigma and key protective factors - spirituality, resilience, quality of life, and social functionin…
“It was a good opportunity for us to be in touch with public health”
PURPOSE: Pharmacies have been a significant part of improving population health since before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known about the working relationships between pharmacies and public health entities. This exploratory study describes independent community pharmacists' perceptions during COVID-19 of both pre-existing and newly created relationships with public health. METHODS: This paper is based on 42 qualitative interviews con…
“We do a lot more than put pills in a bottle…”
Minding the gaps in frayed systems of health and care
A crisis of confidence? Intervening in vaccine hesitancy in North Dakota
In November 2020, North Dakota reported a higher number of cases and deaths per capita from COVID-19 than any other state in the United States. Several months later, it reported one of the country's highest rates of vaccine hesitancy, leading to the development and implementation of the state-funded and physician-led "Vaccine Champion" ("VaxChamp") program. Glossing the primary problem as one of "provider confidence," the VaxChamp program emphasi…
Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture
Japan in Western popular imagination has long been associated with healthy eating habits, although anyone who has read the nutritional information on a convenience store obentō would be quick to revise their opinion. While Japan may not (yet) lay claim to the obesity epidemic that plagues the US, it has seen a sharp increase in cases of type 2 diabetes over the past several decades. It is here, with the increasing rates of diabetes in both countr…
A Novel Mixed Methods Approach Combining Geospatial Mapping and Qualitative Inquiry to Identify Multilevel Policy Targets
Multi-level perspectives across communities, medical systems and policy environments are needed, but few methods are available for health services researchers with limited resources. We developed a mixed method health policy approach, the focused Rapid Assessment Process (fRAP) , that is designed to uncover multi-level modifiable barriers and facilitators contributing to public health issues. We illustrate with a study applying fRAP to the issue …
Diagnosing hikikomori
Hikikomori ('social withdrawal') appeared in Japan at the end of the twentieth century, inciting public panic about a generation of Japanese youth who shun social contact and fail to engage in the age-appropriate activities of young adulthood. Widely cited as a 'condition' rather than a psychiatric symptom or disorder, hikikomori has functioned variously as a diagnosis of individuals, families, and society at large. Taking the polysemous (and con…
Extraordinary Care for Extraordinary Conditions
Lost in Translation
In 2006, the Institute of Medicine released a report detailing how cancer survivors in the United States were “lost in transition” from specialty to primary care. Here, I address a different problem: that of being “lost in translation.” Interviews with cancer survivors in community-based primary care practices across the United States revealed a fundamental disconnect between survivorship rhetoric and patients' perspectives on what was clinically…
Emplotting Hikikomori
Translating Good Science into Good Policy
Ellis Rubinstein Translating Good Science into Good Policy: The Us Factor IN A WORLD OF CONTENTIOUS ASSERTIONS, HERE IS A STATEMENT THAT everyone can agree with: science has never been m ore im portant to the citizenry and to the body politic. But instead of becoming better understood by the public and its representatives—something one might expect as this increasingly highimpact endeavor takes the center stage—polls indicate that science is as p…
Commentary
Much has been said about the dangers-or from the point of view of some government officials, the desirability-of stricter controls on the flow of scientific and technical information. But little hard data has been presented by the scientific and engineering communities indicating that the effect of recent government actions-detailed elsewhere in this issue-has been to chill the traditionally open atmosphere of scientific discourse. Further, from …
A Novel Mixed Methods Approach Combining Geospatial Mapping and Qualitative Inquiry to Identify Multilevel Policy Targets
Multi-level perspectives across communities, medical systems and policy environments are needed, but few methods are available for health services researchers with limited resources. We developed a mixed method health policy approach, the focused Rapid Assessment Process (fRAP) , that is designed to uncover multi-level modifiable barriers and facilitators contributing to public health issues. We illustrate with a study applying fRAP to the issue …
Commentary
Much has been said about the dangers-or from the point of view of some government officials, the desirability-of stricter controls on the flow of scientific and technical information. But little hard data has been presented by the scientific and engineering communities indicating that the effect of recent government actions-detailed elsewhere in this issue-has been to chill the traditionally open atmosphere of scientific discourse. Further, from …
Commentary
Much has been said about the dangers-or from the point of view of some government officials, the desirability-of stricter controls on the flow of scientific and technical information. But little hard data has been presented by the scientific and engineering communities indicating that the effect of recent government actions-detailed elsewhere in this issue-has been to chill the traditionally open atmosphere of scientific discourse. Further, from …
Translating Good Science into Good Policy
Ellis Rubinstein Translating Good Science into Good Policy: The Us Factor IN A WORLD OF CONTENTIOUS ASSERTIONS, HERE IS A STATEMENT THAT everyone can agree with: science has never been m ore im portant to the citizenry and to the body politic. But instead of becoming better understood by the public and its representatives—something one might expect as this increasingly highimpact endeavor takes the center stage—polls indicate that science is as p…
Emplotting Hikikomori
Extraordinary Care for Extraordinary Conditions
Lost in Translation
In 2006, the Institute of Medicine released a report detailing how cancer survivors in the United States were “lost in transition” from specialty to primary care. Here, I address a different problem: that of being “lost in translation.” Interviews with cancer survivors in community-based primary care practices across the United States revealed a fundamental disconnect between survivorship rhetoric and patients' perspectives on what was clinically…
Diagnosing hikikomori
Hikikomori ('social withdrawal') appeared in Japan at the end of the twentieth century, inciting public panic about a generation of Japanese youth who shun social contact and fail to engage in the age-appropriate activities of young adulthood. Widely cited as a 'condition' rather than a psychiatric symptom or disorder, hikikomori has functioned variously as a diagnosis of individuals, families, and society at large. Taking the polysemous (and con…
Biomedicalization and the Practice of Culture
Japan in Western popular imagination has long been associated with healthy eating habits, although anyone who has read the nutritional information on a convenience store obentō would be quick to revise their opinion. While Japan may not (yet) lay claim to the obesity epidemic that plagues the US, it has seen a sharp increase in cases of type 2 diabetes over the past several decades. It is here, with the increasing rates of diabetes in both countr…
A Novel Mixed Methods Approach Combining Geospatial Mapping and Qualitative Inquiry to Identify Multilevel Policy Targets
Multi-level perspectives across communities, medical systems and policy environments are needed, but few methods are available for health services researchers with limited resources. We developed a mixed method health policy approach, the focused Rapid Assessment Process (fRAP) , that is designed to uncover multi-level modifiable barriers and facilitators contributing to public health issues. We illustrate with a study applying fRAP to the issue …
A crisis of confidence? Intervening in vaccine hesitancy in North Dakota
In November 2020, North Dakota reported a higher number of cases and deaths per capita from COVID-19 than any other state in the United States. Several months later, it reported one of the country's highest rates of vaccine hesitancy, leading to the development and implementation of the state-funded and physician-led "Vaccine Champion" ("VaxChamp") program. Glossing the primary problem as one of "provider confidence," the VaxChamp program emphasi…
“It was a good opportunity for us to be in touch with public health”
PURPOSE: Pharmacies have been a significant part of improving population health since before the COVID-19 pandemic. However, little is known about the working relationships between pharmacies and public health entities. This exploratory study describes independent community pharmacists' perceptions during COVID-19 of both pre-existing and newly created relationships with public health. METHODS: This paper is based on 42 qualitative interviews con…
“We do a lot more than put pills in a bottle…”
Minding the gaps in frayed systems of health and care
Cross-Cultural Comparison of Perceived Stigma in Major Depressive Disorder
BACKGROUND: Perceived stigma in Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) is a well-established barrier to help-seeking, social functioning, and quality of life. However, little is known about how stigma is shaped by cultural context and which psychosocial resources may buffer its effects. AIMS: This study aimed to examine the relationship between perceived stigma and key protective factors - spirituality, resilience, quality of life, and social functionin…
Political science (8 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Medicine (6 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Health care (4 works) · Business (2 works) · Cancer (2 works) · Cancer survivorship (2 works) · Computer Science (2 works) · Developmental psychology (2 works)