Gunnar Almgren
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 80115 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Gunnar Almgren |
| PRENOMES | Gunnar |
| SOBRENOME | Almgren |
| ASSINATURA | ALMGREN G |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Washington |
| VERIFICADO | Não |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 15 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 173 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1991 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2017 |
| ÍNDICE H | 6 |
Health Care as a Right of Citizenship
This ambitious book examines how the American health care system must be further reformed to bring it closer in line with the ideals of a modern democracy, as well as how the ACA may change in the coming years. It suggests the next, natural step in the realization of health and well being as a fundamental human right.
Local Contexts of Immigrant and Second-Generation Integration in the United States
Our paper introduces this special issue of JEMS on the role of the local context in immigrant and second-generation integration in the United States. Recent literature has argued that national contexts are important for understanding the integration of immigrants and their descendents. The articles in this issue make the case that local contexts, broadly defined at any sub-national scale, are also important for understanding integration within th…
Associations Between Residential Segregation and Smoking During Pregnancy Among Urban African-American Women
Birth outcomes among urban African-American women
Economic distress and cause-of-death patterns for black and non-black men in Chicago
The mortality disadvantage of African Americans is well documented, but previous studies have not considered its implications for population theory in the general case of industrialized nation states with high levels of income inequality. This paper examines the relevance of classic epidemiological theory to the extremes of income and mortality observed in Chicago, one of America's most racially divided cities. We analyze cause-specific death rat…
Beyond Welfare or Work
There is probably no aspect of the work versus welfare debate that is more contested than the effects of welfare use on child development outcomes. Liberals tend to emphasize the detrimental effects of poverty and welfare stigma on children, while conservatives cite the negative socialization that occurs regarding the value of work within welfare dependent families. However, large scale longitudinal studies that have been used to address this que…
Serving the “whole child”
Social work's early contributions in the domain of prevention are explored through an examination of the United States Children's Bureau campaign to prevent infant mortality in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The article brings into sharper focus the distinctive amalgam of ideology, research, and practice activities at the core of the Children's Bureau prevention paradigm, and presents evidence for the effectiveness of this approach i…
The Legacy of Hull House and the Children's Bureau in the American Mortality Transition
The major advances in American life expectancy achieved during the twentieth century began with the remarkable decline in infant mortality between 1910 and 1930. Until the 1990s, explanations of this demographic event centered on improvements in nutrition, public health, and medical science. Recent causal reappraisals emphasize the importance of changes in household‐level health behaviors in reducing infant deaths, changes that are consistent wit…
The Urban Ecology of Hospital Failure
Hospital closures occurred nationally with increasing frequency between 1970 and 1990. In particular, large urban areas experienced a dramatic number of closures. Of the 61 general hospitals operating in Chicago in 1970, 22 (36%) had closed by 1991. While a growing body of literature has examined the etiology and determinants of hospital closure over the last two decades, few empirical studies have focused on the neighborhood correlates of closur…
The ecology of race and socioeconomic distress
We examine the effects of education, unemployment, and racial segregation on age-, sex-, and race-specific mortality rates in racially defined Chicago community areas from 1989 to 1991. Community socioeconomic factors account for large observed areal variations in infant and working-age mortality, but especially working-age mortality for the black population. For black men, the mortality consequences of living in economically distressed communiti…
Mental health practice in primary care
The rise of managed care as the dominant form of healthcare delivery in the U.S. clearly has dramatic implications for the profession of social work. Thus far and for good reasons, the professional dialog about managed care has largely focused on . the threats posed to the professional agenda of social work by managed care in its various forms. This article considers some of the more positive aspects of the transformation from fee‐based to popula…
Joblessness, Family Disruption, and Violent Death in Chicago, 1970-90
Violent deaths, defined as homicides, suicides, and accidents, are leading causes of death among working-age populations. While large-scale population studies and community case studies have established common linkages between race, sex, age, joblessness, and all three forms of violent death, they have tended to be cross-sectional and to be focused on one cause of violent death to the exclusion of others. Utilizing 1970 and 1990 census data and v…
Making Gray Gold
Overpopulation in India and the Educational Imperative
Ideal Adoption
Birth outcomes among urban African-American women
The ecology of race and socioeconomic distress
We examine the effects of education, unemployment, and racial segregation on age-, sex-, and race-specific mortality rates in racially defined Chicago community areas from 1989 to 1991. Community socioeconomic factors account for large observed areal variations in infant and working-age mortality, but especially working-age mortality for the black population. For black men, the mortality consequences of living in economically distressed communiti…
Joblessness, Family Disruption, and Violent Death in Chicago, 1970-90
Violent deaths, defined as homicides, suicides, and accidents, are leading causes of death among working-age populations. While large-scale population studies and community case studies have established common linkages between race, sex, age, joblessness, and all three forms of violent death, they have tended to be cross-sectional and to be focused on one cause of violent death to the exclusion of others. Utilizing 1970 and 1990 census data and v…
Local Contexts of Immigrant and Second-Generation Integration in the United States
Our paper introduces this special issue of JEMS on the role of the local context in immigrant and second-generation integration in the United States. Recent literature has argued that national contexts are important for understanding the integration of immigrants and their descendents. The articles in this issue make the case that local contexts, broadly defined at any sub-national scale, are also important for understanding integration within th…
Associations Between Residential Segregation and Smoking During Pregnancy Among Urban African-American Women
The Legacy of Hull House and the Children's Bureau in the American Mortality Transition
The major advances in American life expectancy achieved during the twentieth century began with the remarkable decline in infant mortality between 1910 and 1930. Until the 1990s, explanations of this demographic event centered on improvements in nutrition, public health, and medical science. Recent causal reappraisals emphasize the importance of changes in household‐level health behaviors in reducing infant deaths, changes that are consistent wit…
Serving the “whole child”
Social work's early contributions in the domain of prevention are explored through an examination of the United States Children's Bureau campaign to prevent infant mortality in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The article brings into sharper focus the distinctive amalgam of ideology, research, and practice activities at the core of the Children's Bureau prevention paradigm, and presents evidence for the effectiveness of this approach i…
Beyond Welfare or Work
There is probably no aspect of the work versus welfare debate that is more contested than the effects of welfare use on child development outcomes. Liberals tend to emphasize the detrimental effects of poverty and welfare stigma on children, while conservatives cite the negative socialization that occurs regarding the value of work within welfare dependent families. However, large scale longitudinal studies that have been used to address this que…
The Urban Ecology of Hospital Failure
Hospital closures occurred nationally with increasing frequency between 1970 and 1990. In particular, large urban areas experienced a dramatic number of closures. Of the 61 general hospitals operating in Chicago in 1970, 22 (36%) had closed by 1991. While a growing body of literature has examined the etiology and determinants of hospital closure over the last two decades, few empirical studies have focused on the neighborhood correlates of closur…
Ideal Adoption
Overpopulation in India and the Educational Imperative
Making Gray Gold
The ecology of race and socioeconomic distress
We examine the effects of education, unemployment, and racial segregation on age-, sex-, and race-specific mortality rates in racially defined Chicago community areas from 1989 to 1991. Community socioeconomic factors account for large observed areal variations in infant and working-age mortality, but especially working-age mortality for the black population. For black men, the mortality consequences of living in economically distressed communiti…
Mental health practice in primary care
The rise of managed care as the dominant form of healthcare delivery in the U.S. clearly has dramatic implications for the profession of social work. Thus far and for good reasons, the professional dialog about managed care has largely focused on . the threats posed to the professional agenda of social work by managed care in its various forms. This article considers some of the more positive aspects of the transformation from fee‐based to popula…
Joblessness, Family Disruption, and Violent Death in Chicago, 1970-90
Violent deaths, defined as homicides, suicides, and accidents, are leading causes of death among working-age populations. While large-scale population studies and community case studies have established common linkages between race, sex, age, joblessness, and all three forms of violent death, they have tended to be cross-sectional and to be focused on one cause of violent death to the exclusion of others. Utilizing 1970 and 1990 census data and v…
The Urban Ecology of Hospital Failure
Hospital closures occurred nationally with increasing frequency between 1970 and 1990. In particular, large urban areas experienced a dramatic number of closures. Of the 61 general hospitals operating in Chicago in 1970, 22 (36%) had closed by 1991. While a growing body of literature has examined the etiology and determinants of hospital closure over the last two decades, few empirical studies have focused on the neighborhood correlates of closur…
The Legacy of Hull House and the Children's Bureau in the American Mortality Transition
The major advances in American life expectancy achieved during the twentieth century began with the remarkable decline in infant mortality between 1910 and 1930. Until the 1990s, explanations of this demographic event centered on improvements in nutrition, public health, and medical science. Recent causal reappraisals emphasize the importance of changes in household‐level health behaviors in reducing infant deaths, changes that are consistent wit…
Serving the “whole child”
Social work's early contributions in the domain of prevention are explored through an examination of the United States Children's Bureau campaign to prevent infant mortality in the first quarter of the twentieth century. The article brings into sharper focus the distinctive amalgam of ideology, research, and practice activities at the core of the Children's Bureau prevention paradigm, and presents evidence for the effectiveness of this approach i…
Beyond Welfare or Work
There is probably no aspect of the work versus welfare debate that is more contested than the effects of welfare use on child development outcomes. Liberals tend to emphasize the detrimental effects of poverty and welfare stigma on children, while conservatives cite the negative socialization that occurs regarding the value of work within welfare dependent families. However, large scale longitudinal studies that have been used to address this que…
Economic distress and cause-of-death patterns for black and non-black men in Chicago
The mortality disadvantage of African Americans is well documented, but previous studies have not considered its implications for population theory in the general case of industrialized nation states with high levels of income inequality. This paper examines the relevance of classic epidemiological theory to the extremes of income and mortality observed in Chicago, one of America's most racially divided cities. We analyze cause-specific death rat…
Birth outcomes among urban African-American women
Associations Between Residential Segregation and Smoking During Pregnancy Among Urban African-American Women
Local Contexts of Immigrant and Second-Generation Integration in the United States
Our paper introduces this special issue of JEMS on the role of the local context in immigrant and second-generation integration in the United States. Recent literature has argued that national contexts are important for understanding the integration of immigrants and their descendents. The articles in this issue make the case that local contexts, broadly defined at any sub-national scale, are also important for understanding integration within th…
Health Care as a Right of Citizenship
This ambitious book examines how the American health care system must be further reformed to bring it closer in line with the ideals of a modern democracy, as well as how the ACA may change in the coming years. It suggests the next, natural step in the realization of health and well being as a fundamental human right.
Sociology (13 obras) · Medicine (10 obras) · Political science (10 obras) · Population (9 obras) · Demography (8 obras) · Gerontology (7 obras) · Psychology (7 obras) · Demography (6 obras) · Law (6 obras) · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies (6 obras)