Social Factors, Health Care Inequities and Vaccination

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld is Professor Emerita in Sociology at Arizona State University, USA. Jennie has previously served as the secretary-treasurer of the Retirement Network at the American Sociological Association (ASA), as well as the chair, the Nominations Committee Chair and the Health Policy Chair of the Medical Sociology Section, ASA.

• Section 1. VaccinationChapter 1. How Residential Segregation Moderates the Association between Racial/Ethnic Composition and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates across Metropolitan Counties in the U.S.; Caroline Wolski, Kathryn Freeman Anderson, and Simone RambottiChapter 2. Perspectives of Rural New Mexicans on the COVID-19 Vaccines: A Qualitative Study of COVID-19 Pandemic Vaccination Experiences in Rural New Mexico; Maria Gabaldon-Parish and Kate CartwrightChapter 3. Full-Time Caregiving during COVID-19 Based on Minority Identifications, Generation, and Vaccination Status; Erica S. Jablonski, Chris R. Surfus, and Megan HenlyChapter 4. Redefining the Vulnerable Population in Public Health Research: Incorporating Ideological Determinants of Anti-Vaccination Attitudes; Atsuko Kawakami, Subi Gandhi, Derek Lehman, and Jennie Jacobs KronenfeldSection 2. Other Topics Linked to Social Factors and Health Care InequitiesChapter 5. An Examination of Exposure and Vulnerability to Stress from Chronic Illness and Its Impact on Mental Health and Long-Term Disability among Non-Hispanic White, African American, and Latinx Populations; Matthew E. Archibald, Rachel N. Head, Jordan Yakoby, and Pamela BehrmanChapter 6. The Cochlear Implant Decision: How Parents Decide to Implant Their Deaf Children with Cochlear Implants; Kathryn BurrowsChapter 7. Gaps in the Safety-Net: Community Health Centers’ Diminutive Effect on Having a Regular Source of Care; Danielle N. GadsonChapter 8. Sociodemographic Predictors of Viral Load Testing among Hepatitis C Antibody-Positive Patients in a Large Southern California County: An Example of Health Care Inequalities; Sara H. Goodman, Matthew Zahn, Tim-Allen Bruckner, Bernadette Boden-Albala, Janet R. Hankin, and Cynthia M. Lakon