Carles Muntaner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 247434 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Carles Muntaner |
| NOMBRES | Carles |
| APELLIDO | Muntaner |
| FIRMA | MUNTANER C |
| AFILIACIONES | University of Toronto |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3535-467X |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 143 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 837 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 143 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1984 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2026 |
| ÍNDICE H | 15 |
Relationship Between Diabetes Distress and Depressive Symptoms Among Parent–Child Dyads With Type 1 Diabetes in the Chinese Family Context
Diabetes distress significantly contributes to depressive symptoms in children with type 1 diabetes (T1D). Few studies have examined the bidirectional contributions of both parents' and children's diabetes distress to their own (actor effect) and each other's (partner effect) depressive symptoms within the family context. This study aimed to evaluate these actor and partner effects using the actor-partner interdependence model (APIM) and to ident…
Desigualdades en Salud Laboral en Personas Que Trabajan Como Gerocultoras Según La Titularidad Del Centro
Breaking the cycle
The results highlight the negative impact of neoliberal policies, particularly the privatization of nursing homes, on the working conditions of geriatric nursing assistants, exacerbating health inequalities. A shift towards a community-based care model with increased public investment is essential to improve working conditions, promote healthy aging, and enhance the quality of care provided by nursing assistants
The Dana disaster
On October 29, 2024, the DANA (Depresión Aislada en Niveles Altos) floods devastated the Spanish region of Valencia, resulting in 224 fatalities, extensive infrastructural destruction, and profound physical and mental health impacts. This analysis examines how political neglect, systemic corruption, and historical policy legacies exacerbated the disaster's consequences. Corruption-driven urbanization of flood-prone areas during Spain's real estat…
Evaluating local adoption of community-enabled integrated care initiatives in the absence of monitoring systems
National or provincial public health programs fostering the implementation of community-enabled integrated care initiatives might remain unevaluated due to unavailable monitoring systems. We present an alternative approach using data science methods to assess the local uptake of community-based initiatives within large-scale public health programs
Social participation of the older sexual minority population
Despite the growing ageing population in Canada, limited efforts have been made to understand the role of ageing in sexual minority research. The term sexual minority refers to people that do not identify as heterosexual regarding their sexual orientation. In order to examine the role of social factors in sexual minority ageing, the study utilised the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) baseline data to compare social participation rates …
Alienation
Impact of the expanded old age income security programme on suicide mortality among older adults in South Korea
INTRODUCTION: This study examined the impact of the expansion, implemented in July 2014, of Korea's tax-financed (non-contributory) old age income security programme, the Basic Pension (BP), on suicide mortality among individuals aged 65+. METHODS: Using aggregate mortality data from 2010 to 2019, we employed event-history difference-in-differences (DD), 2×2 DD, and difference-in-difference-in-differences (DDD) approaches, leveraging two identifi…
Exploring Indigenous Health and Employment
Sexual orientation and cognition in aging populations
The current study utilized the Canadian Longitudinal Study on Aging (CLSA) data to investigate the relationship between sexual orientation and cognitive health of the aging population. Cognitive flexibility and verbal fluency were examined as outcome variables in the study. A total of 45,993 respondents were included in the analyses. Each model had social support or social participation as a mediator. A series of mediation analysis, stratified by…
Precarious work on the rise
Precarious employment (PE) is non-standard employment with uncertain and unstable contract duration, low wages, and limited labour protections and rights. Research has associated PE with workers' poor mental health and well-being; however, this association has been studied primarily using quantitative methods. This qualitative study seeks to examine the mechanisms between PE and mental health in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic in Ontario, Ca…
Does receipt of social housing impact mental health? Results of a quasi-experimental study in the Greater Toronto Area
Austerity Measures and Underfunding of the Spanish Health System during the Covid-19 Pandemic—Perception of Healthcare Staff in Spain
Insufficient pandemic preparedness and underfunding of human and economic resources have conditioned the response to COVID-19 in Spain. This underfunding has continued since the austerity measures introduced during the 2008 financial crisis. This study aims to understand the perceptions of healthcare staff in Spain on the relationship between the funding of the health system and its capacity to respond to the COVID-19 pandemic. To this end, we ca…
Causal effect of shifting from precarious to standard employment on all-cause mortality in Sweden
BACKGROUND: We aimed at estimating the causal effect of switching from precarious to standard employment on the 6-year and 12-year risk of all-cause mortality among workers aged 20-55 years in Sweden. METHODS: We emulated a series of 12 target trials starting every year between 2005 and 2016 using Swedish register data (n=251 273). We classified precariously employed individuals using a multidimensional approach at baseline as (1) remaining in pr…
Experiences of insecurity among non-standard workers across different welfare states
Reflexiones sobre cómo evaluar y mejorar la respuesta a la pandemia de Covid-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has hit Spain particularly hard, despite being a country with a developed economy and being praised for the robustness of its national health system. In order to understand what happened and to identify how to improve the response, we believe that an independent multi-disciplinary evaluation of the health, political and socio-economic spheres is essential. In this piece we propose objectives, principles, methodology and dime…
Non-Standard Employment and Unemployment during the Covid-19 Crisis
The COVID-19 crisis is a global event that has created and amplified social inequalities, including an already existing and steadily increasing problem of employment and income insecurity and erosion of workplace rights, affecting workers globally. The aim of this exploratory study was to review employment-related determinants of health and health protection during the pandemic, or more specifically, to examine several links between non-standard …
How and why buy-in for health in all policies was facilitated in Ecuador
In Ecuador, political elites were a catalyst for mechanisms that impacted buy-in and government funding for HiAP implementation. They raised awareness among policy sectors initially opposed to PNBV about the rationale for changing governance practices, and they provided financial resources to support efforts related to PNBV. Specific mechanisms help explain these phenomena further. Future studies should examine ways that PNBV may have been an imp…
Who loses more? Identifying the relationship between hospitalization and income loss
Non-standard and self-employed workers, and even female standard workers, are typically excluded from public insurance coverage in South Korea, and social security is insufficient when they are injured. To protect workers from the vicious circle of the poverty-health trap, national social protections such as sickness benefits are needed
The resistance of nurses to austerity measures in the health sector during the financial crisis in Spain
This study explores nurses’ perspectives on how the financial crisis and austerity measures introduced in the Spanish Health System affected their ability to provide care in these new circumstances Cross-sectional observational study. In 2013, during an international annual congress in Spain, 123 nurses out of a total of 350 attendees completed a 14-item open-ended response questionnaire to examine the perceived impact of the financial crisis and…
On Case and Deaton's deaths of despair
Health care workers and migrant health
The main purpose of this article is to review several ways in which health care workers could either impact migrant health or be directly impacted by migration and, based on this, suggest the expansion of the current research agenda on migration and health to address a range of topics that are currently either neglected, insufficiently researched, or researched from different perspectives. To ground this suggestion and emphasize the complexity an…
Classism and Everyday Racism as Experienced by Racialized Health Care Users
In Toronto, Canada, 51.5 % of the population are members of racialized groups. Systemic labor market racism has resulted in an overrepresentation of racialized groups in low-income and precarious jobs, a racialization of poverty, and poor health. Yet, the health care system is structured around a model of service delivery and policies that fail to consider unequal power social relations or racism. This study examines how racialized health care us…
Experiences of everyday racism in Toronto’s health care system
Our study identifies how racialized health care users experience everyday racism when receiving health care and this is important to consider in the development of future research and interventions aimed at addressing institutional racism in the health care setting. To support the elimination of institutional racism, anti-racist policies are needed to move beyond cultural competence polices and towards addressing the centrality of unequal power s…
The resilience of the Spanish health system against the Covid-19 pandemic
Spain, with more than 11 000 cases and 491 deaths as of March 17, 2020, has one of the highest burdens of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) worldwide. In response, its government used a royal decree (463/2020)1 to declare a 15-day national emergency, starting on March 15.
When being alone might be better
Social class and self-reported health status among men and women
Experiences of Racism Among African American Parents and the Mental Health of Their Preschool-Aged Children
Experiences of and responses to racism among African American parents have important effects on the well-being of their young children
Social class, assets, organizational control and the prevalence of common groups of psychiatric disorders
Political and welfare state determinants of infant and child health indicators
Politics, welfare regimes, and population health
In recent years, a research area has emerged within social determinants of health that examines the role of politics, expressed as political traditions/parties and welfare state characteristics, on population health. To better understand and synthesise this growing body of evidence, the present literature review, informed by a political economy of health and welfare regimes framework, located 73 empirical and comparative studies on politics and h…
Precarious employment and health
New types of work arrangements can be as dangerous as traditional unemployment for workers' health
Is precarious employment more damaging to women's health than men's
A critical appraisal of the demand/control model of the psychosocial work environment
Socioeconomic Status and Depressive Syndrome
This paper assesses the hypothesis that depressive syndrome is associated with socioeconomic status, using longitudinal data from the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Followup. Socioeconomic measures include those used in most studies of status attainment, as well as measures of financial dependence, non-job income, and work environment. Analyses include inter- and intra-generational mobility, and replicate the basic aspects of the status a…
Labor market experience, work organization, gender inequalities and health status
Exploring complex causal pathways between urban renewal, health and health inequality using a theory-driven realist approach
Psychosocial work environment in human service organizations
This paper concerns two models that were introduced in two different research domains during the 1970's. The first model regards human service organizations (HSO) as a specific type of organization. The second model, the demand-control model (DC model), concerns the joint effects of job demands and job control on worker health. In the HSO model, there are analyses of the content of jobs, considering the specific characteristics of HSOs, but littl…
Anxious? Depressed? You might be suffering from capitalism
Despite a well-established social gradient for many mental disorders, there is evidence that individuals near the middle of the social hierarchy suffer higher rates of depression and anxiety than those at the top or bottom. Although prevailing indicators of socioeconomic status (SES) cannot detect or easily explain such patterns, relational theories of social class, which emphasise political-economic processes and dimensions of power, might. We t…
The consequences of flexible work for health
Association between working conditions and health Working conditions in industrialised countries have changed dramatically over the past two decades. The internationalisation of investment, production and trade, the application of new technologies, and the emergence of new forms of work organisation have transformed what had become standard forms of work arrangements, capital-labour accords and employment contracts. One of the most significant ch…
Two decades of Neo-Marxist class analysis and health inequalities
Most population health researchers conceptualize social class as a set of attributes and material conditions of life of individuals. The empiricist tradition of ‘class as an individual attribute’ equates class to an ‘observation’, precluding the investigation of unobservable social mechanisms. Another consequence of this view of social class is that it cannot be conceptualized, measured, or intervened upon at the meso- or macro levels, being redu…
The relationship between nonstandard working and mental health in a representative sample of the South Korean population
Does organization matter? A multilevel analysis of the demand-control model applied to human services
The demand-control model (DC model) in occupational epidemiology suggests that health, an individual attribute, is partly determined by work organization, via the interplay of demand and control, job strain. The objective of this study was empirical assessment of the model's tenet of an organizational determination of individual health. An emerging analytic method, multi-level modelling, permits such an assessment. The study encompasses two large…
Experiences of everyday racism in Toronto’s health care system
Our study identifies how racialized health care users experience everyday racism when receiving health care and this is important to consider in the development of future research and interventions aimed at addressing institutional racism in the health care setting. To support the elimination of institutional racism, anti-racist policies are needed to move beyond cultural competence polices and towards addressing the centrality of unequal power s…
An evaluation of an urban renewal program and its effects on neighborhood resident's overall wellbeing using concept mapping
Interpersonal and institutional ethnic discrimination, and mental health in a random sample of Palestinian minority men smokers in Israel
The effects of an urban renewal project on health and health inequalities
BACKGROUND: In the last decade, the Neighbourhoods Law in Catalonia (Spain) funded municipalities that presented urban renewal projects within disadvantaged neighbourhoods focusing on physical, social and economic improvements. The objective of the study was to evaluate the effects of this law on the health and health inequalities of residents in the intervened neighbourhoods in the city of Barcelona. METHODS: A quasi-experimental predesign and p…
Immigration and self-reported health status by social class and gender
OBJECTIVE: Spain and Catalonia have experienced several immigration waves over the last century. The goal of this study was to examine the role of social class and its mediating pathways (ie, work organisation, material deprivation at home and household labour) in the association between migration status and health, as well as whether these associations were modified by social class or gender. SETTING: Barcelona city, Spain. DESIGN AND PARTICIPAN…
Glossary for the implementation of Health in All Policies (HiAP)
Health in All Policies (HiAP) is becoming increasingly popular as a governmental strategy to improve population health by coordinating action across health and non-health sectors. A variety of intersectoral initiatives may be used in HiAP that frame health determinants as the bridge between policies and health outcomes. The purpose of this glossary is to present concepts and terms useful in understanding the implementation of HiAP as a cross-sect…
Barriers to Knowledge Production, Knowledge Translation, and Urban Health Policy Change
A Guttman Scale to Measure Heterosexual Behavior in Three Different Catalan Samples
This work concerned the scalability of heterosexual behavior developing Bentler's scale (1967) for a Catalan sample of 263 subjects of both sexes and from three different educational levels. Analysis of responses to a questionnaire of 34 items showed that heterosexual experiences could be scaled according to a fairly fixed cumulative ordinal pattern. No differences were found between the patterns by sex or educational level. Some applications of …
Evaluative instructions and interpersonal aggression in the type A behavior pattern
The aim of this study was to examine aggression responses (Buss aggression paradigm) of type A and type B males under two different kinds of evaluative instructions. Extreme groups of type A and type B college-age males were each subdivided into two groups receiving different sets of instructions before the start of the task. One of the sets of instructions informed the subject that the given task would serve to evaluate his teaching abilities (e…
A critical appraisal of the demand/control model of the psychosocial work environment
Class Behavior
(1994). Class Behavior: An Alternative to Rational Choice Microfoundations. Rethinking Marxism: Vol. 7, No. 2, pp. 118-131
Psychotic inpatients' social class and their first admission to state or private psychiatric Baltimore hospitals
Social class differences were investigated among patients admitted to public and private psychiatric hospitals. Participants included first admission White psychotic men admitted to Baltimore metropolitan area hospitals between 1983 and 1989. After adjusting for age and diagnosis, patients with low levels of skills/credentials were found to be more likely than patients with higher levels to be admitted to state psychiatric hospitals. These findin…
Marxisms against the Current
Social Class and Behavior
We used data from the Panel Study of Income Dynamics to present preliminary findings on the social class behavior of the poor and general populations in the USA. Analysis supported the potion that individuals are engaged simultaneously in multiple class positions, e.g. self-employed and welfare recipient, that yield different amounts of income. Moreover, no single label or explanation, e.g., "underclass" of "the poor are marginal to the economy,"…
Psychosocial work environment in human service organizations
This paper concerns two models that were introduced in two different research domains during the 1970's. The first model regards human service organizations (HSO) as a specific type of organization. The second model, the demand-control model (DC model), concerns the joint effects of job demands and job control on worker health. In the HSO model, there are analyses of the content of jobs, considering the specific characteristics of HSOs, but littl…
Neighborhood Environments and Coronary Heart Disease
The authors investigated whether neighborhood socioeconomic characteristics are associated with coronary heart disease prevalence and risk factors, whether these associations persist after adjustment for individual-level social class indicators, and whether the effects of individual-level indicators vary across neighborhoods. The study sample consisted of 12,601 persons in four US communities (Washington County, Maryland; Forsyth County, North Ca…
Does organization matter? A multilevel analysis of the demand-control model applied to human services
The demand-control model (DC model) in occupational epidemiology suggests that health, an individual attribute, is partly determined by work organization, via the interplay of demand and control, job strain. The objective of this study was empirical assessment of the model's tenet of an organizational determination of individual health. An emerging analytic method, multi-level modelling, permits such an assessment. The study encompasses two large…
Manuel Sacristán, Spanish Marxist
Social class, assets, organizational control and the prevalence of common groups of psychiatric disorders
Income Inequality, Social Cohesion, and Class Relations
Wilkinson's “income inequality and social cohesion” model has emerged as a leading research program in social epidemiology. Public health scholars and activists working toward the elimination of social inequalities in health can find several appealing features in Wilkinson's research. In particular, it provides a sociological alternative to former models that emphasize poverty, health behaviors, or the cultural aspects of social relations as dete…
Social capital and the third way in public health
The construct of social capital has recently captured the interest of researchers in social epidemiology and public health. We review current hypotheses on the social capital and health link, and examine the empirical evidence available as well as its implications for health policy. With regard to theory, we contend that the construct as currently employed in the public health literature, lacks depth compared to its uses in social science. In add…
Social Inequalities in Mental Health
We provide an overview of two major theoretical subjects in the study of the relation between social inequalities and mental health in the last 50 years: the conceptualization of social inequalities, and assumptions about their causes. The two conceptual approaches to the conceptualization of social inequalities are: 1) ‘social stratification’ or the ordering of individuals according to economic, political, or cultural rankings; and 2) ‘social cl…
Racial differences in attitudes toward professional mental health care and in the use of services
Differences in attitudes toward seeking professional mental health care and in the utilization of mental health services were examined by analyzing the second part of the National Comorbidity Survey. Prior to use of services, African Americans were found to have more positive attitudes than whites toward seeking such services, but less likely to use them. After utilization, their attitudes were found to be less positive than those of whites
Racial Ideology and Explanations for Health Inequalities among Middle-Class Whites
Middle-class whites' explanations for racial inequalities in health can have a profound impact on the type of questions addressed in epidemiology and public health research. These explanations also constitute a subset of white racial ideology (i.e., racism) that in itself powerfully affects the health of non-whites. This study begins to examine the nature of attributions for racial inequalities in health among university students who by definitio…
Socioeconomic Status and Depressive Syndrome
This paper assesses the hypothesis that depressive syndrome is associated with socioeconomic status, using longitudinal data from the Baltimore Epidemiologic Catchment Area Followup. Socioeconomic measures include those used in most studies of status attainment, as well as measures of financial dependence, non-job income, and work environment. Analyses include inter- and intra-generational mobility, and replicate the basic aspects of the status a…
The consequences of flexible work for health
Association between working conditions and health Working conditions in industrialised countries have changed dramatically over the past two decades. The internationalisation of investment, production and trade, the application of new technologies, and the emergence of new forms of work organisation have transformed what had become standard forms of work arrangements, capital-labour accords and employment contracts. One of the most significant ch…
Power, politics, and social class
The recent growth of health disparities scholarship has not been accompanied by a parallel development in its key construct: social class. Rather, new research has kept the “social” in social inequalities to a minimum. With few exceptions,1 social class understood as a power and political relation (managerial control, property relations, labour unions, political parties, class based social movements) is absent from social epidemiology. As suggest…
Mood and Anxiety Disorders Among Rural, Urban, and Metropolitan Residents in the United States
When being alone might be better
Socioeconomic Position and Major Mental Disorders
Psychiatric epidemiologists were among the first to use the term “social epidemiology” (1), and the role of the social environment in the etiology and course of major mental disorders continues to be investigated (2–5). A number of reviews published in the late 1990s documented the associations between socioeconomic position (SEP) and specific mental disorders (6–9); in 2003, a comprehensive meta-analysis of the research on SEP and depression (10…
Experiences of Racism Among African American Parents and the Mental Health of Their Preschool-Aged Children
Experiences of and responses to racism among African American parents have important effects on the well-being of their young children
Labor market experience, work organization, gender inequalities and health status
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