Sandra C Quinn
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 225349 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Sandra C Quinn |
| NOMBRES | Sandra C |
| APELLIDO | Quinn |
| FIRMA | QUINN S C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Maryland, College Park |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3258-4595 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 40 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 470 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 40 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1991 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 11 |
Beliefs in Covid-19 Vaccine Misinformation Among Unvaccinated Black Americans
Health-related misinformation is a major threat to public health and particularly worrisome for populations experiencing health disparities. This study sets out to examine the prevalence, socio-psychological predictors, and consequences of beliefs in COVID-19 vaccine misinformation among unvaccinated Black Americans. We conducted an online national survey with Black Americans who had not been vaccinated against COVID-19 (N = 800) between February…
Public and health care provider attitudes, understanding, and behaviors regarding emergency use authorizations
Future research should explore how emergency use authorizations have been promoted and how that promotion impacts public and health care provider perceptions
Communicating Effectively About Emergency Use Authorization and Vaccines in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Both studies found that greater trust in government action was associated with willingness to accept EUA products 9,10 In a qualitative study on public understanding of medical countermeasures, Liu etal 11 assessed willingness to comply with protective actions during a hypothetical novel respiratory virus scenario The White House's adoption of Operation Warp Speed and promises of a vaccine by fall 2020 have undermined trust in any vaccine, whethe…
Vaccine Communication as Weaponized Identity Politics
AffiliationsDavid A. Broniatowski is with the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics and the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Sandra C. Quinn is with the Department of Family Science and the Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Mark Dredze is with the Department…
Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
Objectives. To adapt and extend an existing typology of vaccine misinformation to classify the major topics of discussion across the total vaccine discourse on Twitter. Methods. Using 1.8 million vaccine-relevant tweets compiled from 2014 to 2017, we adapted an existing typology to Twitter data, first in a manual content analysis and then using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling to extract 100 topics from the data set. Results. Manu…
Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019
Objectives. To understand changes in how Facebook pages frame vaccine opposition. Methods. We categorized 204 Facebook pages expressing vaccine opposition, extracting public posts through November 20, 2019. We analyzed posts from October 2009 through October 2019 to examine if pages’ content was coalescing. Results. Activity in pages promoting vaccine choice as a civil liberty increased in January 2015, April 2016, and January 2019 (t[76] = 11.33…
Measuring vaccine hesitancy, confidence, trust and flu vaccine uptake
Malicious Actors on Twitter
Social bots and other malicious actors have a significant presence on Twitter. It is increasingly clear that some of their activities can have a negative impact on public health. This guide provides an overview of the types of malicious actors currently active on Twitter by highlighting the characteristic behaviors and strategies employed. It covers both automated accounts (including traditional spambots, social spambots, content polluters, and f…
You don't trust a government vaccine
Mission of Mercy emergency dental clinics
The 2014 Mid-Maryland Mission of Mercy emergency dental clinic attracted people with risk factors for oral and chronic diseases. Those with one or more risk factors were more likely to receive oral surgery (specifically, tooth extraction). These findings strongly suggest that organizers of MOM emergency dental clinics include wrap-around primary care, health promotion and disease prevention services along with provision of dental services. While …
Weaponized Health Communication
Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content. Methods. We compared bots’ to average users’ rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which we collected online from July 2014 through September 2017. We estimated the likelihood that users were bots, comparing proportions of polarized and antivaccine tweets across user types. We conducted a content analysis of a Twitter hashtag associated with Russian troll …
Probing Beyond Individual Factors to Understand Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccine Uptake
AffiliationsSandra Crouse Quinn is with the Department of Family Science and the Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park
Breaking down the monolith
Black adults are significantly less likely to be immunized for seasonal influenza when compared to Whites. This persistent disparity contributes to increased influenza-related morbidity and mortality in the African American population. Most scholarship on vaccine disparities has compared Whites and Blacks. Employing Public Health Critical Race Praxis, this study seeks to shift the focus to explore differences within the Black population. Utilizin…
Determinants of trust in the flu vaccine for African Americans and Whites
The Symbolic Value and Limitations of Racial Concordance in Minority Research Engagement
The well-documented underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in research demands action. The field of health disparities research, however, lacks scientific consensus about how best to respectfully recruit underrepresented minority populations in research. We explore the investigators' perspective regarding how their own racial and ethnic background influenced their ability to recruit minorities, including (a) the influence of racial c…
Health Inequalities and Infectious Disease Epidemics
In today's global society, infectious disease outbreaks can spread quickly across the world, fueled by the rapidity with which we travel across borders and continents. Historical accounts of influenza pandemics and contemporary reports on infectious diseases clearly demonstrate that poverty, inequality, and social determinants of health create conditions for the transmission of infectious diseases, and existing health disparities or inequalities …
Trust During the Early Stages of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
Distrust of the government often stands in the way of cooperation with public health recommendations in a crisis. The purpose of this article is to describe the public's trust in government recommendations during the early stages of the H1N1 pandemic and to identify factors that might account for these trust levels. The authors surveyed 1,543 respondents about their experiences and attitudes related to H1N1 influenza between June 3, 2009, and Jul…
Exploring Communication, Trust in Government, and Vaccination Intention Later in the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
With the growing recognition of the critical role that risk communication plays in a public health emergency, a number of articles have provided prescriptive best practices to enhance such communication. However, little empirical research has examined perceptions of the quality of communication, the impact of uncertainty on changing communication, use of information sources, and trust in specific government spokespersons. Similarly, although ther…
Building Trust for Engagement of Minorities in Human Subjects Research
AffiliationsSandra C. Quinn is with the Maryland Center for Health Equity and Department of Family Science, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Nancy E. Kass is with the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Stephen B. Thomas is with the Maryland Center for Health Equity and the Department of Health Services Administration, School of P…
A meta-analysis of social capital and health
Social capital refers to various levels of social relationships formed through social networks. Measurement differences have lead to imprecise measurement. A meta-analysis of eligible studies assessing the bivariate association between social capital and self-reported health and all-cause mortality was performed. Thirty-nine studies met inclusion criteria, showing social capital increased odds of good health by 27 percent (95% confidence interval…
Improving Informed Consent with Minority Participants
Strengthening the informed consent process is one avenue for improving recruitment of minorities into research. This study examines that process from two different perspectives, that of researchers and that of African American and Latino community members. Through the use of two separate surveys, we compared strategies used by researchers with the preferences and attitudes of community members during the informed consent process. Our data suggest…
Existing health inequalities in India
On 11 June 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the world was in phase 6 of an influenza pandemic. In India, the first case of 2009 H1N1 influenza was reported on 16 May 2009 and by August 2010 (when the pandemic was declared over), 38730 cases of 2009 H1N1 had been confirmed of which there were 2024 deaths. Here, we propose a conceptual model of the sources of health disparities in an influenza pandemic in India. Guided by a p…
The Impact of Workplace Policies and Other Social Factors on Self-Reported Influenza-Like Illness Incidence During the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
Objectives. We assessed the impact of social determinants of potential exposure to H1N1—which are unequally distributed by race/ethnicity in the United States—on incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Methods. In January 2010 we surveyed a nationally representative sample (n = 2079) of US adults from the Knowledge Networks online research panel, with Hispanic and African American oversamples. The completion rate …
Toward a Fourth Generation of Disparities Research to Achieve Health Equity
Achieving health equity, driven by the elimination of health disparities, is a goal of Healthy People 2020. In recent decades, the improvement in health status has been remarkable for the U.S. population as a whole. However, racial and ethnic minority populations continue to lag behind whites with a quality of life diminished by illness from preventable chronic diseases and a life span cut short by premature death. We examine a conceptual framewo…
Racial Disparities in Exposure, Susceptibility, and Access to Health Care in the US H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Objectives. We conducted the first empirical examination of disparities in H1N1 exposure, susceptibility to H1N1 complications, and access to health care during the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Methods. We conducted a nationally representative survey among a sample drawn from more than 60 000 US households. We analyzed responses from 1479 adults, including significant numbers of Blacks and Hispanics. The survey asked respondents about their ability t…
African Americans' views on research and the Tuskegee Syphilis study
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 1932 to 1972
The Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in the Negro male is the longest nontherapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history. The strategies used to recruit and retain participants were quite similar to those being advocated for HIV/AIDS prevention programs today. Almost 60 years after the study began, there remains a trail of distrust and suspicion that hampers HIV education efforts in Black communities. The AIDS epidemic has exposed t…
Weaponized Health Communication
Objectives. To understand how Twitter bots and trolls (“bots”) promote online health content. Methods. We compared bots’ to average users’ rates of vaccine-relevant messages, which we collected online from July 2014 through September 2017. We estimated the likelihood that users were bots, comparing proportions of polarized and antivaccine tweets across user types. We conducted a content analysis of a Twitter hashtag associated with Russian troll …
You don't trust a government vaccine
A meta-analysis of social capital and health
Social capital refers to various levels of social relationships formed through social networks. Measurement differences have lead to imprecise measurement. A meta-analysis of eligible studies assessing the bivariate association between social capital and self-reported health and all-cause mortality was performed. Thirty-nine studies met inclusion criteria, showing social capital increased odds of good health by 27 percent (95% confidence interval…
Determinants of trust in the flu vaccine for African Americans and Whites
The Symbolic Value and Limitations of Racial Concordance in Minority Research Engagement
The well-documented underrepresentation of racial and ethnic minorities in research demands action. The field of health disparities research, however, lacks scientific consensus about how best to respectfully recruit underrepresented minority populations in research. We explore the investigators' perspective regarding how their own racial and ethnic background influenced their ability to recruit minorities, including (a) the influence of racial c…
Racial Disparities in Exposure, Susceptibility, and Access to Health Care in the US H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Objectives. We conducted the first empirical examination of disparities in H1N1 exposure, susceptibility to H1N1 complications, and access to health care during the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Methods. We conducted a nationally representative survey among a sample drawn from more than 60 000 US households. We analyzed responses from 1479 adults, including significant numbers of Blacks and Hispanics. The survey asked respondents about their ability t…
The characteristics of northern black churches with community health outreach programs
OBJECTIVES. The Black church has a long history of addressing unmet health and human service needs, yet few studies have examined characteristics of churches involved in health promotion. METHODS. Data obtained from a survey of 635 Black churches in the northern United States were examined. Univariate and multivariate statistical procedures identified eight characteristics associated with community health outreach programs: congregation size, den…
Ethics in Public Health Research
Increasingly, researchers grapple with meaningful efforts to involve communities in research, recognizing that communities are distinct from individuals. We also struggle to ensure that individual participants in research are fully protected. Community advisory boards (CABs) offer an opportunity to adopt a relationships paradigm that enables researchers to anticipate and address the context in which communities understand risks and benefits, and …
The Contributions of Health Communication to Eliminating Health Disparities
The pressing need to eliminate health disparities calls on public health professionals to use every effective tool possible. Health communication, defined as the study and use of methods to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health, was first recognized as a subset of the field of communication in 1975, when the Health Communication Division of the International Communication Association was founded.1,2 The Natio…
The Impact of Workplace Policies and Other Social Factors on Self-Reported Influenza-Like Illness Incidence During the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
Objectives. We assessed the impact of social determinants of potential exposure to H1N1—which are unequally distributed by race/ethnicity in the United States—on incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Methods. In January 2010 we surveyed a nationally representative sample (n = 2079) of US adults from the Knowledge Networks online research panel, with Hispanic and African American oversamples. The completion rate …
Facebook Pages, the “Disneyland” Measles Outbreak, and Promotion of Vaccine Refusal as a Civil Right, 2009–2019
Objectives. To understand changes in how Facebook pages frame vaccine opposition. Methods. We categorized 204 Facebook pages expressing vaccine opposition, extracting public posts through November 20, 2019. We analyzed posts from October 2009 through October 2019 to examine if pages’ content was coalescing. Results. Activity in pages promoting vaccine choice as a civil liberty increased in January 2015, April 2016, and January 2019 (t[76] = 11.33…
Adapting and Extending a Typology to Identify Vaccine Misinformation on Twitter
Objectives. To adapt and extend an existing typology of vaccine misinformation to classify the major topics of discussion across the total vaccine discourse on Twitter. Methods. Using 1.8 million vaccine-relevant tweets compiled from 2014 to 2017, we adapted an existing typology to Twitter data, first in a manual content analysis and then using latent Dirichlet allocation (LDA) topic modeling to extract 100 topics from the data set. Results. Manu…
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina made it evident that natural disasters occur in the same social, historical, and political environment in which disparities in health already exist. The hurricane was only the disaster agent; what created the magnitude of the disaster was the underlying vulnerability of the affected communities. In New Orleans, where 69% of the population is African American and 23% live below the poverty line, thousands of African Americans wer…
Malicious Actors on Twitter
Social bots and other malicious actors have a significant presence on Twitter. It is increasingly clear that some of their activities can have a negative impact on public health. This guide provides an overview of the types of malicious actors currently active on Twitter by highlighting the characteristic behaviors and strategies employed. It covers both automated accounts (including traditional spambots, social spambots, content polluters, and f…
Food is directed to the area”
Vaccine Communication as Weaponized Identity Politics
AffiliationsDavid A. Broniatowski is with the Institute for Data, Democracy, and Politics and the Department of Engineering Management and Systems Engineering, School of Engineering and Applied Science, The George Washington University, Washington, DC. Sandra C. Quinn is with the Department of Family Science and the Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Mark Dredze is with the Department…
Probing Beyond Individual Factors to Understand Influenza and Pneumococcal Vaccine Uptake
AffiliationsSandra Crouse Quinn is with the Department of Family Science and the Maryland Center for Health Equity, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park
Building Trust for Engagement of Minorities in Human Subjects Research
AffiliationsSandra C. Quinn is with the Maryland Center for Health Equity and Department of Family Science, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Nancy E. Kass is with the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Stephen B. Thomas is with the Maryland Center for Health Equity and the Department of Health Services Administration, School of P…
Communicating Effectively About Emergency Use Authorization and Vaccines in the Covid-19 Pandemic
Both studies found that greater trust in government action was associated with willingness to accept EUA products 9,10 In a qualitative study on public understanding of medical countermeasures, Liu etal 11 assessed willingness to comply with protective actions during a hypothetical novel respiratory virus scenario The White House's adoption of Operation Warp Speed and promises of a vaccine by fall 2020 have undermined trust in any vaccine, whethe…
Improving Informed Consent with Minority Participants
Strengthening the informed consent process is one avenue for improving recruitment of minorities into research. This study examines that process from two different perspectives, that of researchers and that of African American and Latino community members. Through the use of two separate surveys, we compared strategies used by researchers with the preferences and attitudes of community members during the informed consent process. Our data suggest…
Existing health inequalities in India
On 11 June 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the world was in phase 6 of an influenza pandemic. In India, the first case of 2009 H1N1 influenza was reported on 16 May 2009 and by August 2010 (when the pandemic was declared over), 38730 cases of 2009 H1N1 had been confirmed of which there were 2024 deaths. Here, we propose a conceptual model of the sources of health disparities in an influenza pandemic in India. Guided by a p…
Aids and "shared sovereignty" in Tanzania from 1987 to 2000
The Tuskegee Syphilis Study, 1932 to 1972
The Tuskegee study of untreated syphilis in the Negro male is the longest nontherapeutic experiment on human beings in medical history. The strategies used to recruit and retain participants were quite similar to those being advocated for HIV/AIDS prevention programs today. Almost 60 years after the study began, there remains a trail of distrust and suspicion that hampers HIV education efforts in Black communities. The AIDS epidemic has exposed t…
The characteristics of northern black churches with community health outreach programs
OBJECTIVES. The Black church has a long history of addressing unmet health and human service needs, yet few studies have examined characteristics of churches involved in health promotion. METHODS. Data obtained from a survey of 635 Black churches in the northern United States were examined. Univariate and multivariate statistical procedures identified eight characteristics associated with community health outreach programs: congregation size, den…
Community Organizing for Health Promotion in the Rural South
Community organizing, an approach to health promotion that has the potential to address the social and environmental roots of poor health while maintaining a high degree of citizen participation and control, is a promising strategy for addressing the health needs of the rural South. This study, through qualitative analysis of 11 in-depth interviews with community organizers, examines how community organizing is being used for health promotion in …
Delineating differences
This paper analyses community members' descriptions of subgroups of gay and bisexual men in San Francisco. Five group categories are identified and subjected to detailed analysis. These are labelled leather, men of colour, activists, men who go to clubs and younger. While some of these groups meet established criteria of 'community', they do so in different ways suggesting the existence of relatively discrete sub-communities within the San Franci…
Ethics and Community-Based Education
Community-based education and service learning are becoming increasingly common in health and human services education. As students enter the community, several ethical dilemmas arise regarding the university's interaction with the community. This article explores clinical, agency, and community placements in terms of the relationships they engender between the university and the community. The article then outlines some ethical obligations of un…
African Americans' views on research and the Tuskegee Syphilis study
Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender Students
Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender youth (LGBT) continue to face extreme discrimination within the school environment. Existing literature suggests that LGBT youth are at high risk for a number of health problems, including suicide ideation and attempts, harassment, substance abuse, homelessness, and declining school performance. This exploratory study consists of face-to-face interviews with 12 male and female participants, 18-21 years old, …
Ethics in Public Health Research
Increasingly, researchers grapple with meaningful efforts to involve communities in research, recognizing that communities are distinct from individuals. We also struggle to ensure that individual participants in research are fully protected. Community advisory boards (CABs) offer an opportunity to adopt a relationships paradigm that enables researchers to anticipate and address the context in which communities understand risks and benefits, and …
The Contributions of Health Communication to Eliminating Health Disparities
The pressing need to eliminate health disparities calls on public health professionals to use every effective tool possible. Health communication, defined as the study and use of methods to inform and influence individual and community decisions that enhance health, was first recognized as a subset of the field of communication in 1975, when the Health Communication Division of the International Communication Association was founded.1,2 The Natio…
Freimuth and Quinn Respond
Eliminating racial and ethnic health disparities requires a multidisciplinary approach, including scholarship on the contribution of intelligence (IQ) to health outcomes as described by Batty and Deary. We agree with his conclusion that “proactive involvement of health care providers in the provider–client interaction . . . might reduce health differentials.” However, his reliance on IQ to make his claim places limits on our comprehensive health …
Aids and "shared sovereignty" in Tanzania from 1987 to 2000
The gender ratio imbalance and its relationship to risk of HIV/Aids among African American women at historically black colleges and universities
African American women are at increased risk of HIV transmission through heterosexual contact. HIV/AIDS is the leading cause of death among African American women between 25 to 34 years of age, and many of these women were likely infected while in college. Four focus groups were conducted with African American students attending Historically Black Colleges and Universities (HBCUs) in order to learn about the college dating environment and how it …
We Must Fight Hiv/Aids With Science, Not Politics
Stall and Mills1 speculated on how future historians will view our efforts to combat the global catastrophe of HIV/AIDS. In 1989, Victoria Harden interviewed Anthony Fauci, asking him to speculate on how biomedical researchers would have responded to HIV/ AIDS in 1955. Fauci said, I think it would have been much more frightening than it is now, and it is frightening now. . . . I think we would not have a clue as to how to combat this disease from…
Hurricane Katrina
Hurricane Katrina made it evident that natural disasters occur in the same social, historical, and political environment in which disparities in health already exist. The hurricane was only the disaster agent; what created the magnitude of the disaster was the underlying vulnerability of the affected communities. In New Orleans, where 69% of the population is African American and 23% live below the poverty line, thousands of African Americans wer…
Food is directed to the area”
Toward a Fourth Generation of Disparities Research to Achieve Health Equity
Achieving health equity, driven by the elimination of health disparities, is a goal of Healthy People 2020. In recent decades, the improvement in health status has been remarkable for the U.S. population as a whole. However, racial and ethnic minority populations continue to lag behind whites with a quality of life diminished by illness from preventable chronic diseases and a life span cut short by premature death. We examine a conceptual framewo…
Racial Disparities in Exposure, Susceptibility, and Access to Health Care in the US H1N1 Influenza Pandemic
Objectives. We conducted the first empirical examination of disparities in H1N1 exposure, susceptibility to H1N1 complications, and access to health care during the H1N1 influenza pandemic. Methods. We conducted a nationally representative survey among a sample drawn from more than 60 000 US households. We analyzed responses from 1479 adults, including significant numbers of Blacks and Hispanics. The survey asked respondents about their ability t…
Improving Informed Consent with Minority Participants
Strengthening the informed consent process is one avenue for improving recruitment of minorities into research. This study examines that process from two different perspectives, that of researchers and that of African American and Latino community members. Through the use of two separate surveys, we compared strategies used by researchers with the preferences and attitudes of community members during the informed consent process. Our data suggest…
Existing health inequalities in India
On 11 June 2009, the World Health Organization (WHO) declared that the world was in phase 6 of an influenza pandemic. In India, the first case of 2009 H1N1 influenza was reported on 16 May 2009 and by August 2010 (when the pandemic was declared over), 38730 cases of 2009 H1N1 had been confirmed of which there were 2024 deaths. Here, we propose a conceptual model of the sources of health disparities in an influenza pandemic in India. Guided by a p…
The Impact of Workplace Policies and Other Social Factors on Self-Reported Influenza-Like Illness Incidence During the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
Objectives. We assessed the impact of social determinants of potential exposure to H1N1—which are unequally distributed by race/ethnicity in the United States—on incidence of influenza-like illness (ILI) during the 2009 H1N1 pandemic. Methods. In January 2010 we surveyed a nationally representative sample (n = 2079) of US adults from the Knowledge Networks online research panel, with Hispanic and African American oversamples. The completion rate …
Exploring Communication, Trust in Government, and Vaccination Intention Later in the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
With the growing recognition of the critical role that risk communication plays in a public health emergency, a number of articles have provided prescriptive best practices to enhance such communication. However, little empirical research has examined perceptions of the quality of communication, the impact of uncertainty on changing communication, use of information sources, and trust in specific government spokespersons. Similarly, although ther…
Building Trust for Engagement of Minorities in Human Subjects Research
AffiliationsSandra C. Quinn is with the Maryland Center for Health Equity and Department of Family Science, School of Public Health, University of Maryland, College Park. Nancy E. Kass is with the Berman Institute of Bioethics and Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD. Stephen B. Thomas is with the Maryland Center for Health Equity and the Department of Health Services Administration, School of P…
A meta-analysis of social capital and health
Social capital refers to various levels of social relationships formed through social networks. Measurement differences have lead to imprecise measurement. A meta-analysis of eligible studies assessing the bivariate association between social capital and self-reported health and all-cause mortality was performed. Thirty-nine studies met inclusion criteria, showing social capital increased odds of good health by 27 percent (95% confidence interval…
Health Inequalities and Infectious Disease Epidemics
In today's global society, infectious disease outbreaks can spread quickly across the world, fueled by the rapidity with which we travel across borders and continents. Historical accounts of influenza pandemics and contemporary reports on infectious diseases clearly demonstrate that poverty, inequality, and social determinants of health create conditions for the transmission of infectious diseases, and existing health disparities or inequalities …
Trust During the Early Stages of the 2009 H1N1 Pandemic
Distrust of the government often stands in the way of cooperation with public health recommendations in a crisis. The purpose of this article is to describe the public's trust in government recommendations during the early stages of the H1N1 pandemic and to identify factors that might account for these trust levels. The authors surveyed 1,543 respondents about their experiences and attitudes related to H1N1 influenza between June 3, 2009, and Jul…
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