Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld
Biographic Data
| ID | 3596882 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jennie Jacobs |
| FAMILY NAME | Kronenfeld |
| SIGNATURE | KRONENFELD J J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Arizona State University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 50 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 96 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 49 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1977 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2016 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
The obesity pay gap: Gender, body size, and wage inequalities—a longitudinal study of Chinese adults, 1991–2011
Estimating the Co-Development of Cognitive Decline and Physical Mobility Limitations in Older U.S. Adults
This study examines the co-development of cognitive and physical function in older Americans using an age-heterogeneous sample drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (1998–2008). We used multiple-group parallel process latent growth models to estimate the association between trajectories of cognitive function as measured by immediate word recall scores, and limitations in physical function as measured as an index of functional mobility limita…
The Effects of Household Technology on Body Mass Index among Chinese Adults
Gender Differences in Trajectories of Self-Rated Health in Middle and Old Age: An Examination of Differential Exposure and Differential Vulnerability
Our results differ from previous research, which often shows a female disadvantage that is reduced or disappears at older ages. Furthermore, gender differences in the predictors of SRH (exposure) contribute more to understanding gender differences in SRH than different responses to the predictors (vulnerability)
Gender Differences in Functional Health: Latent Curve Analysis Assessing Differential Exposure
Females are disadvantaged in terms of occurrence and number of limitations at baseline but the gender gap remains stable over time, suggesting differences occur before late-middle and old age. Females' lack of full-time employment, and lower levels of income and wealth translate into worse functional health. It is important to improve the socioeconomic status of females while also addressing the health conditions that contribute to functional lim…
Using factor analysis to create complementary and alternative medicine domains: An examination of patterns of use
Previous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States has relied heavily on the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's (NCCAM) domains of CAM but with noted limitations. We conducted a multifaceted examination of previous CAM domains and tested if they represent actual patterns of CAM use. The data come from the 2002 United States' National Health Interview Survey and include 30,923 adults. O…
Effects of Maternal and Provider Characteristics on Up-to-Date Immunization Status of Children Aged 19 to 35 Months
Objectives. We examined the effects of maternal and provider characteristics on the up-to-date immunization status of children. Methods. We used data from the 2003 National Immunization Survey to determine variations in children’s up-to-date status in the 4:3:1:3 immunization series. Results. Low maternal educational levels and low socioeconomic status were associated with high 4:3:1:3 series completion rates. Also, completion rates were high in …
Chronic illness and health-seeking information on the Internet
ABSRACT By using the theories of help-seeking behavior and health-information seeking, this article demonstrates the relationship between chronic illness, retrieving health information from the Internet and changing health behavior. Research on the impact of health information on the Internet and changing health behavior is fairly new, given the growth of the Internet in recent years. Using US data on Internet use within the US population, multip…
STI/HIV Risks for Mexican Migrant Laborers: Exploratory Ethnographies
Changing conceptions of health and life course concepts
Health as a social concept is very important in medical sociology. More complicated conceptions of health as a multi-dimensional concept have emphasized not only physical health status, but aspects of overall well-being. This article continues in the tradition of a multi-dimensional concept of health, but adds in the complexity of variation over the life course. As people age, chronic health problems become more common. Mobility and sensory limit…
Assessing the effects of race and ethnicity on use of complementary and alternative therapies in the USA
The use of alternative and complementary therapies varied across racial/ ethnic groups. Evidence showed that individuals who were dissatisfied with the availability of conventional healthcare, who were in poor health, but very satisfied with their conventional provider were more likely to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. The addition of these variables to a logistic regression model did not change the findings for diffe…
Social Inequalities, Health and Health Care Delivery
Gender Perspectives on Health and Medicine
Gendered perspectives on medicine: an introduction / Marcia Texler Segal, Vasilikie Demos, Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld -- Situating epidemiology / Beth E. Jackson -- Gendering the medicalization thesis / Elianne Riska -- "Big pharma" in our bedrooms: an analysis of the medicalization of women's sexual problems / Heather Hartley -- The continuum: somatic distress to medicalization in women with breast cancer: theoretical and empirical assessment / Er…
Our Unsystematic Healthcare System
Chapter 1 Introduction to the Health Care System as a Social Institution Chapter 2 Two Sociological Perspectives of the Health Care System Chapter 3 What Do We Think of the Health Care System? Chapter 4 Hospitals and Other Health Care Organizations Chapter 5 The Division of Labor in the Health Care Delivery System Chapter 6 Alternative Medicine Chapter 7 Health Insurance Chapter 8 From HMOs to Managed Care Chapter 9 Health Care Costs and Cost Con…
Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 19: Changing Consumers and Changing Technology in Health Care and Health Care Delivery
New Trends in the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Impacts of Managed Care on the Growth of a Consumer Protections Model
Managed care is prompting a large revision not only in the ways doctors are employed and paid but also in the essence of the relationship between doctors and patients. In medical sociology, a discipline with a long-standing focus on scrutinizing the role of both the physician and the patient, there has already been discussion of a shift from the doctor as more all knowing to a less dominant position vis-a-vis both the patient and delivery of care…
Health Care Systems in Transition: An International Perspective
PART ONE: INTRODUCTION The Comparative Study of Health Care Reform - Albert F Wessen Lessons from Abroad - David Mechanic A Comparative Perspective Comparative Health Systems and the Convergence Hypothesis - Mark Field The Dialectics of Universalism and Particularism PART TWO: THE GERMAN EXPERIENCE From Solidarity to Market Competition - Christa Altenstetter Values, Structure and Strategy in German Health Policy 1883-1997 Health Care Cost Contain…
From the SWS President: Language and Linkages to Public Policy
Comparison of Traffic Accident and Chronic Disease Risk Perceptions
OBJECTIVE: To assess whether having a commonly identified risk factor for certain chronic diseases or accidents predicted higher perceptions of risk for those health problems, Methods: Survey data from 618 adults in a southeastern metropolitan area were used. Health status and socio-demographic measures were identified as risk factors and examined as predictors off risk perceptions, Results: Older, less healthy adults saw themselves at greater ri…
Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 15: Changing Organizational Forms of Delivering Health Care: The Impact of Managed Care and Other Changes on Patients and Providers
The Changing Federal Role in U.S. Health Care Policy
The Evolving Federal Role in the U.S. Health Care System Salient Features of the U.S. Health Care Infrastructure and Delivery System: General Comments Salient Features of the U.S. Health Care Infrastructure and Delivery System: Specific Issues, Costs, Provision of Care, and a Continuum of Care The Federal Legislative Process and Its Outcome Health Policy Process at the National Level and the Role of Politics The History of Federal Involvement in …
Safety behaviors of mothers of young children: Impact of Cognitive, Stress and Background Factors
We explore the relative contribution of cognitive, stress, and background variables as factors that explain safety behaviors of parents of young children. The data set was a probability sample of mothers of young children ( N= 1247). The focus of survey questions was predominantly home safety, a setting where young children are at highest risk for injury. We tested hypotheses using structural equations models. Our analyses indicate that stress an…
The Relationship Between Resource Constraints and Physician Problem Solving: Implications for Improving the Process of Care
OBJECTIVES: Research suggests that physicians will engage in more vigilant problem-solving under conditions of resource constraints than under conditions of resource slack. Increased vigilance related to physicians' clinical strategies enhances care by disposing physicians toward more optimal care choices. The authors examine whether pressures for clinical resource constraints encourage increased and sustained vigilance in problem-solving among c…
Understanding Health Care Reform
Research in the Sociology of Health Care, Vol. 10
Health, Illness, and Healing in an Uncertain Era: Challenges from and for Medical Sociology
The current situation in health care organizations, among providers and for people, dramatically challenges the "business as usual" roles of medicine, government, insurance companies, the community, and the university. Health care reform marks the first attempt in a century to consider a reconstruction of the social contract between society and medicine. While sociology stands as one of the earliest social sciences to systematically study the hea…
The use of unorthodox therapies and marginal practitioners
Chronic illness and health-seeking information on the Internet
ABSRACT By using the theories of help-seeking behavior and health-information seeking, this article demonstrates the relationship between chronic illness, retrieving health information from the Internet and changing health behavior. Research on the impact of health information on the Internet and changing health behavior is fairly new, given the growth of the Internet in recent years. Using US data on Internet use within the US population, multip…
Access to cancer screening services for women
A major effort in preventive care for women has emphasized the obtaining of Pap smears and mammograms. This paper uses survey data from one state to examine issues of access to Pap smears and mammograms. Poor women receiving health care through a managed-care Medicaid program received these services at the same rate as women with other types of health insurance, while the uninsured were less likely to have had either type of service
Assessing the effects of race and ethnicity on use of complementary and alternative therapies in the USA
The use of alternative and complementary therapies varied across racial/ ethnic groups. Evidence showed that individuals who were dissatisfied with the availability of conventional healthcare, who were in poor health, but very satisfied with their conventional provider were more likely to use complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) therapies. The addition of these variables to a logistic regression model did not change the findings for diffe…
Gender Differences in Functional Health: Latent Curve Analysis Assessing Differential Exposure
Females are disadvantaged in terms of occurrence and number of limitations at baseline but the gender gap remains stable over time, suggesting differences occur before late-middle and old age. Females' lack of full-time employment, and lower levels of income and wealth translate into worse functional health. It is important to improve the socioeconomic status of females while also addressing the health conditions that contribute to functional lim…
Gender Differences in Trajectories of Self-Rated Health in Middle and Old Age: An Examination of Differential Exposure and Differential Vulnerability
Our results differ from previous research, which often shows a female disadvantage that is reduced or disappears at older ages. Furthermore, gender differences in the predictors of SRH (exposure) contribute more to understanding gender differences in SRH than different responses to the predictors (vulnerability)
Using factor analysis to create complementary and alternative medicine domains: An examination of patterns of use
Previous research on complementary and alternative medicine (CAM) in the United States has relied heavily on the National Center for Complementary and Alternative Medicine's (NCCAM) domains of CAM but with noted limitations. We conducted a multifaceted examination of previous CAM domains and tested if they represent actual patterns of CAM use. The data come from the 2002 United States' National Health Interview Survey and include 30,923 adults. O…
Changing conceptions of health and life course concepts
Health as a social concept is very important in medical sociology. More complicated conceptions of health as a multi-dimensional concept have emphasized not only physical health status, but aspects of overall well-being. This article continues in the tradition of a multi-dimensional concept of health, but adds in the complexity of variation over the life course. As people age, chronic health problems become more common. Mobility and sensory limit…
The Medicaid program and a regular source of care
The Medicaid program and a regular source of care. J J KronenfeldCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.8.771 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Provider Variables and the Utilization of Ambulatory Care Services
The effects of a number of essentially different work order release and flow time allowance policies on the assembly order flow times and assembly order due date performance are investigated. Work orders within an assembly order have different routing length. The assembly order flow time is the time that elapses between the release of the first work order and the completion of the last work order of the assembly order. The timing of the release o…
New Trends in the Doctor-Patient Relationship: Impacts of Managed Care on the Growth of a Consumer Protections Model
Managed care is prompting a large revision not only in the ways doctors are employed and paid but also in the essence of the relationship between doctors and patients. In medical sociology, a discipline with a long-standing focus on scrutinizing the role of both the physician and the patient, there has already been discussion of a shift from the doctor as more all knowing to a less dominant position vis-a-vis both the patient and delivery of care…
Estimating the Co-Development of Cognitive Decline and Physical Mobility Limitations in Older U.S. Adults
This study examines the co-development of cognitive and physical function in older Americans using an age-heterogeneous sample drawn from the Health and Retirement Study (1998–2008). We used multiple-group parallel process latent growth models to estimate the association between trajectories of cognitive function as measured by immediate word recall scores, and limitations in physical function as measured as an index of functional mobility limita…
The Effects of Household Technology on Body Mass Index among Chinese Adults
Effects of Maternal and Provider Characteristics on Up-to-Date Immunization Status of Children Aged 19 to 35 Months
Objectives. We examined the effects of maternal and provider characteristics on the up-to-date immunization status of children. Methods. We used data from the 2003 National Immunization Survey to determine variations in children’s up-to-date status in the 4:3:1:3 immunization series. Results. Low maternal educational levels and low socioeconomic status were associated with high 4:3:1:3 series completion rates. Also, completion rates were high in …
From the SWS President: Language and Linkages to Public Policy
Regulation, retrenchment- The DRG experience: Problems from changing reimbursemwnt practice
An Appraisal of Organizational Response to Fiscally Constraining Regulation: The Case of Hospitals and DRGs
Results from analysis of 227,771 discharge abstracts from 68 short-term, acute-care hospitals and from interviews with a stratified random selection of 24 of the 68 chief executives of these hospitals demonstrate that institutions perceive implementation of DRGs as fiscally constraining, especially in light of other resource-constraining conditions (an increase in unemployment resulting in fewer people with hospitalization insurance, in addition …
Changing health practices: The experience from a worksite health promotion project
Urban Health in America
Illegitimacy
Role Structure and Analysis of the Family by F. Ivan Nye. Beverly Hills: Sage, 1974. 214 pp
Role Structure and Analysis of the Family
The Medicaid program and a regular source of care
The Medicaid program and a regular source of care. J J KronenfeldCopyRight https://doi.org/10.2105/AJPH.68.8.771 Published Online: October 07, 2011
Provider Variables and the Utilization of Ambulatory Care Services
The effects of a number of essentially different work order release and flow time allowance policies on the assembly order flow times and assembly order due date performance are investigated. Work orders within an assembly order have different routing length. The assembly order flow time is the time that elapses between the release of the first work order and the completion of the last work order of the assembly order. The timing of the release o…
Self care as a panacea for the ills of the health care system: An assessment
Self care as a panacea for the ills of the health care system: An assessment
Access to Dental Care: A Comparison of Medicine/Dentistry and the Role of a Regular Source
Recent studies have found more equal access to physicians, both in terms of volume of visits and having a regular source. This paper compares physician care with dental care, looking particularly at a regular source of dental care. A regular source should be very important in dental care, given the emphasis on prevention and regular visits. This paper examines data from a statewide sample of 1,329 Rhode Island residents in 1974 to determine what …
Medical Sociologists at Work
Increasing utilization of a rural cervical cancer detection program
The Alabama Department of Public Health established, in 1973, a Cancer Screening Program (CSP). Although 66,000 women have been screened, many rural females had never used the program. After a community health organization education effort was introduced into a target rural county, an examination of CSP new user data for two intervention quarters revealed 345 and 150 per cent increases, respectively, in the pattern of use
The use of unorthodox therapies and marginal practitioners
Organisation of ambulatory care by consumers
This paper deals with how consumers arrange their ambulatory care in a system such as the United States which offers many possible choices. Patters of the different affiliations (sources) that people maintain throughout the year for ambulatory care are formed. The data were obtained in interviews in a sample survey of Rhode Island households conducted in 1974. Although most people in the sample (89.5 per cent) cluster with one to three sources of…
Contemporary Health Services: Social Science Perspectives
U.S. National Health Policy: An Analysis of the Federal Role
This detailed study analyzes the U.S. health care system with special emphasis placed on examining the Federal role in establishing health policy and how the diverse pieces of the system come together
The Private Lives and Professional Identity of Medical Students
Sex Role Changes: Technology, Politics, and Policy
Changing health practices: The experience from a worksite health promotion project
An Appraisal of Organizational Response to Fiscally Constraining Regulation: The Case of Hospitals and DRGs
Results from analysis of 227,771 discharge abstracts from 68 short-term, acute-care hospitals and from interviews with a stratified random selection of 24 of the 68 chief executives of these hospitals demonstrate that institutions perceive implementation of DRGs as fiscally constraining, especially in light of other resource-constraining conditions (an increase in unemployment resulting in fewer people with hospitalization insurance, in addition …
Regulation, retrenchment- The DRG experience: Problems from changing reimbursemwnt practice
Surviving Fieldwork: A Report of the Advisory Panel on Health and Safety in Fieldwork
A Resource-Intensive Medicare Patient Effect of Profit Margin on Care
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Access to cancer screening services for women
A major effort in preventive care for women has emphasized the obtaining of Pap smears and mammograms. This paper uses survey data from one state to examine issues of access to Pap smears and mammograms. Poor women receiving health care through a managed-care Medicaid program received these services at the same rate as women with other types of health insurance, while the uninsured were less likely to have had either type of service
Access to family planning services and health insurance among low-income women in Arizona
This paper uses 1984 and 1989 Arizona survey data to explore the importance of insurance coverage for access to family planning services. In Arizona, Medicaid was provided through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, a managed care model. Family planning was not provided in 1984 but had been added by 1989. Low-income women were 2.3 times more likely to receive services in 1989 than in 1984. Women in the system were 60% more likely to …
Understanding Health Care Reform
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