Jennifer Malat
Biographic Data
| ID | 166450 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennifer Malat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennifer |
| FAMILY NAME | Malat |
| SIGNATURE | MALAT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cincinnati |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-3593-7277 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 288 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
Associations between lifetime stress exposure, race, and first-birth intendedness in the United States
This study examined how lifetime stress exposure and race are associated with first-birth intendedness, and whether these associations differ based on stress exposure timing. Greater lifetime stress exposure was related to increased first-birth intendedness for black women but was unrelated or even associated with decreased first-birth intendedness for white women, depending on stress exposure timing. These effects were robust while controlling f…
The effects of whiteness on the health of whites in the USA
The Effect of Age and Childhood Social Class on Preference for New Healthcare Practices
Bourdieu theorized that habitus structures and is structured by experiences in the social world, with childhood experiences having the strongest influence. Habitus can yield rewards in specific fields through dispositions to enact certain practices. Healthcare provides an opportunity to assess how age and childhood social class interact to produce preferences in a changing field. Are people who developed their habitus in higher social classes as …
Reproductive Life Plan Counseling and Effective Contraceptive Use among Urban Women Utilizing Title X Services
County-level Unemployment Change and Trends in Self-rated Health
Recent research using national-level data finds that economic recessions are associated with improved population health in the United States. The present study utilizes data from Ohio to assess whether these conclusions hold at the county level, occur immediately at the onset of a recession, and vary by education and race. The data show that at the beginning of the period, higher cross-sectional unemployment rates were associated with worse avera…
The Impact of Racism on Clinician Cognition, Behavior, and Clinical Decision Making
Over the past two decades, thousands of studies have demonstrated that Blacks receive lower quality medical care than Whites, independent of disease status, setting, insurance, and other clinically relevant factors. Despite this, there has been little progress towards eradicating these inequities. Almost a decade ago we proposed a conceptual model identifying mechanisms through which clinicians' behavior, cognition, and decision making might be i…
White doctors and nurses on racial inequality in health care in the USA: Whiteness and Colour-Blind Racial Ideology
In this paper we report on an interdisciplinary project interviewing doctors and nurses about racial inequality in health care in the USA. We analysed data from interviews with twenty-two white doctors and nurses in which they were asked to offer explanations for racial inequality in health care. Results provide insight into how whiteness operates to provide white patients more often with appropriate health care and how colour-blind ideology can …
Guest Editor's Introduction: Sociological Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Health and Health Care
I am pleased to introduce this special issue of Sociobgical Focus, Sociological Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Health and Health Care. Although researchers from a broad set of discipli nes contribute to efforts to answer questions about racial inequality in health and health care, sociologists have the ability to add a vital perspective to this research. We have social theories and methodological approaches that lend insight into…
Physicians’ Perceptions of Patients’ Social and Behavioral Characteristics and Race Disparities in Treatment Recommendations for Men With Coronary Artery Disease
Objectives. A growing body of evidence suggests that provider decisionmaking contributes to racial/ethnic disparities in care. We examined the factors mediating the relationship between patient race/ethnicity and provider recommendations for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Methods. Analyses were conducted with a data set that included medical record, angiogram, and provider survey data on postangiogram encounters with patients who were cate…
Race, socioeconomic status, and the perceived importance of positive self-presentation in health care
Expanding research on the racial disparity in medical treatment with ideas from sociology
While hundreds of studies document racial differences in the use of medical procedures in the United States, by comparison little is known about the causes of these differences. This gap in knowledge should serve as a call to sociologists who, drawing on their disciplinary tradition of studying inequality, could improve understanding of the disparity. This article offers suggestions about how medical sociologists in the USA might bring sociology …
Preference for Same-Race Health Care Providers and Perceptions of Interpersonal Discrimination in Health Care
This article examines black Americans' preference for black health care providers. Using data from a national survey, we assess how blacks' perceptions of discrimination are related to preference for same-race health care providers. Overall, the belief that discrimination is frequent in different-race doctorpatient dyads is associated with greater preference for a same-race provider. However, the belief that discrimination occurs regardless of a …
Psychosocial Factors in Medical and Psychological Treatment Avoidance: The Role of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
A community sample of 1106 adults was examined to assess the impact of the doctor-patient relationship on participants' avoidance of treatment for a recognized medical or psychological problem. Of five aspects of participants' previous experience with their physicians, all but waiting time predicted participants' self-reported treatment avoidance. In two logistic regression models participants who felt their physicians listened more to their conc…
Social Distance and Patients' Rating of Healthcare Providers
Racial inequity in the provision of healthcare is widely recognized. In this paper, I assess the role of social distance from healthcare providers in accounting for whites' higher rating of healthcare providers. Using data from the Detroit Area Study, I test whether having higher socioeconomic status, like most healthcare providers, and racial concordance with healthcare provider account for the gap in satisfaction between whites and African Amer…
Racial differences in Norplant use in the United States
The effects of whiteness on the health of whites in the USA
The Impact of Racism on Clinician Cognition, Behavior, and Clinical Decision Making
Over the past two decades, thousands of studies have demonstrated that Blacks receive lower quality medical care than Whites, independent of disease status, setting, insurance, and other clinically relevant factors. Despite this, there has been little progress towards eradicating these inequities. Almost a decade ago we proposed a conceptual model identifying mechanisms through which clinicians' behavior, cognition, and decision making might be i…
Physicians’ Perceptions of Patients’ Social and Behavioral Characteristics and Race Disparities in Treatment Recommendations for Men With Coronary Artery Disease
Objectives. A growing body of evidence suggests that provider decisionmaking contributes to racial/ethnic disparities in care. We examined the factors mediating the relationship between patient race/ethnicity and provider recommendations for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Methods. Analyses were conducted with a data set that included medical record, angiogram, and provider survey data on postangiogram encounters with patients who were cate…
Preference for Same-Race Health Care Providers and Perceptions of Interpersonal Discrimination in Health Care
This article examines black Americans' preference for black health care providers. Using data from a national survey, we assess how blacks' perceptions of discrimination are related to preference for same-race health care providers. Overall, the belief that discrimination is frequent in different-race doctorpatient dyads is associated with greater preference for a same-race provider. However, the belief that discrimination occurs regardless of a …
Social Distance and Patients' Rating of Healthcare Providers
Racial inequity in the provision of healthcare is widely recognized. In this paper, I assess the role of social distance from healthcare providers in accounting for whites' higher rating of healthcare providers. Using data from the Detroit Area Study, I test whether having higher socioeconomic status, like most healthcare providers, and racial concordance with healthcare provider account for the gap in satisfaction between whites and African Amer…
White doctors and nurses on racial inequality in health care in the USA: Whiteness and Colour-Blind Racial Ideology
In this paper we report on an interdisciplinary project interviewing doctors and nurses about racial inequality in health care in the USA. We analysed data from interviews with twenty-two white doctors and nurses in which they were asked to offer explanations for racial inequality in health care. Results provide insight into how whiteness operates to provide white patients more often with appropriate health care and how colour-blind ideology can …
Expanding research on the racial disparity in medical treatment with ideas from sociology
While hundreds of studies document racial differences in the use of medical procedures in the United States, by comparison little is known about the causes of these differences. This gap in knowledge should serve as a call to sociologists who, drawing on their disciplinary tradition of studying inequality, could improve understanding of the disparity. This article offers suggestions about how medical sociologists in the USA might bring sociology …
Race, socioeconomic status, and the perceived importance of positive self-presentation in health care
Racial differences in Norplant use in the United States
Psychosocial Factors in Medical and Psychological Treatment Avoidance: The Role of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
A community sample of 1106 adults was examined to assess the impact of the doctor-patient relationship on participants' avoidance of treatment for a recognized medical or psychological problem. Of five aspects of participants' previous experience with their physicians, all but waiting time predicted participants' self-reported treatment avoidance. In two logistic regression models participants who felt their physicians listened more to their conc…
County-level Unemployment Change and Trends in Self-rated Health
Recent research using national-level data finds that economic recessions are associated with improved population health in the United States. The present study utilizes data from Ohio to assess whether these conclusions hold at the county level, occur immediately at the onset of a recession, and vary by education and race. The data show that at the beginning of the period, higher cross-sectional unemployment rates were associated with worse avera…
Racial differences in Norplant use in the United States
Social Distance and Patients' Rating of Healthcare Providers
Racial inequity in the provision of healthcare is widely recognized. In this paper, I assess the role of social distance from healthcare providers in accounting for whites' higher rating of healthcare providers. Using data from the Detroit Area Study, I test whether having higher socioeconomic status, like most healthcare providers, and racial concordance with healthcare provider account for the gap in satisfaction between whites and African Amer…
Psychosocial Factors in Medical and Psychological Treatment Avoidance: The Role of the Doctor-Patient Relationship
A community sample of 1106 adults was examined to assess the impact of the doctor-patient relationship on participants' avoidance of treatment for a recognized medical or psychological problem. Of five aspects of participants' previous experience with their physicians, all but waiting time predicted participants' self-reported treatment avoidance. In two logistic regression models participants who felt their physicians listened more to their conc…
Physicians’ Perceptions of Patients’ Social and Behavioral Characteristics and Race Disparities in Treatment Recommendations for Men With Coronary Artery Disease
Objectives. A growing body of evidence suggests that provider decisionmaking contributes to racial/ethnic disparities in care. We examined the factors mediating the relationship between patient race/ethnicity and provider recommendations for coronary artery bypass graft surgery. Methods. Analyses were conducted with a data set that included medical record, angiogram, and provider survey data on postangiogram encounters with patients who were cate…
Race, socioeconomic status, and the perceived importance of positive self-presentation in health care
Expanding research on the racial disparity in medical treatment with ideas from sociology
While hundreds of studies document racial differences in the use of medical procedures in the United States, by comparison little is known about the causes of these differences. This gap in knowledge should serve as a call to sociologists who, drawing on their disciplinary tradition of studying inequality, could improve understanding of the disparity. This article offers suggestions about how medical sociologists in the USA might bring sociology …
Preference for Same-Race Health Care Providers and Perceptions of Interpersonal Discrimination in Health Care
This article examines black Americans' preference for black health care providers. Using data from a national survey, we assess how blacks' perceptions of discrimination are related to preference for same-race health care providers. Overall, the belief that discrimination is frequent in different-race doctorpatient dyads is associated with greater preference for a same-race provider. However, the belief that discrimination occurs regardless of a …
Guest Editor's Introduction: Sociological Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Health and Health Care
I am pleased to introduce this special issue of Sociobgical Focus, Sociological Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Inequality in Health and Health Care. Although researchers from a broad set of discipli nes contribute to efforts to answer questions about racial inequality in health and health care, sociologists have the ability to add a vital perspective to this research. We have social theories and methodological approaches that lend insight into…
White doctors and nurses on racial inequality in health care in the USA: Whiteness and Colour-Blind Racial Ideology
In this paper we report on an interdisciplinary project interviewing doctors and nurses about racial inequality in health care in the USA. We analysed data from interviews with twenty-two white doctors and nurses in which they were asked to offer explanations for racial inequality in health care. Results provide insight into how whiteness operates to provide white patients more often with appropriate health care and how colour-blind ideology can …
The Impact of Racism on Clinician Cognition, Behavior, and Clinical Decision Making
Over the past two decades, thousands of studies have demonstrated that Blacks receive lower quality medical care than Whites, independent of disease status, setting, insurance, and other clinically relevant factors. Despite this, there has been little progress towards eradicating these inequities. Almost a decade ago we proposed a conceptual model identifying mechanisms through which clinicians' behavior, cognition, and decision making might be i…
County-level Unemployment Change and Trends in Self-rated Health
Recent research using national-level data finds that economic recessions are associated with improved population health in the United States. The present study utilizes data from Ohio to assess whether these conclusions hold at the county level, occur immediately at the onset of a recession, and vary by education and race. The data show that at the beginning of the period, higher cross-sectional unemployment rates were associated with worse avera…
Reproductive Life Plan Counseling and Effective Contraceptive Use among Urban Women Utilizing Title X Services
The Effect of Age and Childhood Social Class on Preference for New Healthcare Practices
Bourdieu theorized that habitus structures and is structured by experiences in the social world, with childhood experiences having the strongest influence. Habitus can yield rewards in specific fields through dispositions to enact certain practices. Healthcare provides an opportunity to assess how age and childhood social class interact to produce preferences in a changing field. Are people who developed their habitus in higher social classes as …
The effects of whiteness on the health of whites in the USA
Associations between lifetime stress exposure, race, and first-birth intendedness in the United States
This study examined how lifetime stress exposure and race are associated with first-birth intendedness, and whether these associations differ based on stress exposure timing. Greater lifetime stress exposure was related to increased first-birth intendedness for black women but was unrelated or even associated with decreased first-birth intendedness for white women, depending on stress exposure timing. These effects were robust while controlling f…
Psychology (12 works) · Medicine (11 works) · Political science (9 works) · Sociology (9 works) · Gerontology (7 works) · Health care (7 works) · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research (7 works) · Ethnic group (6 works) · Environmental health (5 works) · Health equity (5 works)