Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPHJul 22, 2023
White House Launches Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy
#PublicHealth #PopHealth #Policy #MedSoc
https://www.whitehouse.gov/briefing-room/statements-releases/2023/07/21/fact-sheet-white-house-launches-office-of-pandemic-preparedness-and-response-policy/
FACT SHEET: White House Launches Office of Pandemic Preparedness and Response Policy | The White House

Major General (ret) Paul Friedrichs Will Serve as the Inaugural Director The Biden-Harris Administration has made historic progress on our nation’s ability to manage COVID-19 so that it no longer meaningfully disrupts the way we live our lives. Under President Biden’s leadership, the Administration has taken significant steps to ensure all individuals have continued access…

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPHJun 24, 2023
New findings on harassment of clinicians and biomedical scientists on Twitter during the COVID-19 pandemic... Useful findings for helping get a sense of the problem scope, as this just focused on physicians, biomed scientists, & trainees. #scicomm #medsoc #sociology #medicine #PublicHealth
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2806018
Physician and Biomedical Scientist Harassment During the COVID-19 Pandemic

This survey study assesses the frequency and nature of harassment on social media experienced by physicians, biomedical scientists, and trainees during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPHMay 16, 2023

New paper on income and health by David Brady, Michaela Curran, and me in Demographic Research...

A test of the predictive validity of relative versus absolute income for self-reported health and well-being in the United States
#medsoc #sociology #hiap #PublicHealth #PopHealth #epidemiology
https://www.demographic-research.org/volumes/vol48/26/

Demographic Research - A test of the predictive validity of relative versus absolute income for self-reported health and well-being in the United States

Volume 48 (2023) - Article 26 | Pages 775–808

Demographic Research
Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPHMar 7, 2023
Neighborhood social organization exposures & racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension risk in Los Angeles. New article by Greg Sharp at Dartmouth Sociology & me.
In neighborhoods w/ high formal & informal organization activity, adults have lower probability of hypertension--& Black, White, & Latino differences are not statistically significant.
https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0282648
#medsoc #sociology #PublicHealth #PopulationHealth #Race #Community #HIAP #epidemiology
Neighborhood social organization exposures and racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension risk in Los Angeles

Despite a growing evidence base documenting associations between neighborhood characteristics and the risk of developing high blood pressure, little work has established the role played by neighborhood social organization exposures in racial/ethnic disparities in hypertension risk. There is also ambiguity around prior estimates of neighborhood effects on hypertension prevalence, given the lack of attention paid to individuals’ exposures to both residential and nonresidential spaces. This study contributes to the neighborhoods and hypertension literature by using novel longitudinal data from the Los Angeles Family and Neighborhood Survey to construct exposure-weighted measures of neighborhood social organization characteristics—organizational participation and collective efficacy—and examine their associations with hypertension risk, as well as their relative contributions to racial/ethnic differences in hypertension. We also assess whether the hypertension effects of neighborhood social organization vary across our sample of Black, Latino, and White adults. Results from random effects logistic regression models indicate that adults living in neighborhoods where people are highly active in informal and formal organizations have a lower probability of being hypertensive. This protective effect of exposure to neighborhood organizational participation is also significantly stronger for Black adults than Latino and White adults, such that, at high levels of neighborhood organizational participation, the observed Black-White and Black-Latino hypertension differences are substantially reduced to nonsignificance. Nonlinear decomposition results also indicate that almost one-fifth of the Black-White hypertension gap can be explained by differential exposures to neighborhood social organization.

Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPHMar 6, 2023
Confronting anti-vaccine activism with life-saving narratives: Health policy experts call for concerted public outreaches that stress that vaccines save lives
https://news.ucr.edu/articles/2023/03/01/confronting-anti-vaccine-activism-life-saving-narratives
#covid19 #PublicHealth #PopHealth #sociology #MedSoc
Confronting anti-vaccine activism with life-saving narratives

Health officials, public policymakers and community leaders should team up to disseminate accurate narratives about the life-saving benefits of vaccines.

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Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPHMar 6, 2023
Confronting the evolution & expansion of anti-vaccine activism in the USA in the COVID-19 era
Pleased to share this new article co-authored w/ my wonderful colleagues on @thelancet Commission on Vaccine Refusal, Acceptance, & Demand in the USA
Open access for a short time: https://authors.elsevier.com/a/1gg-1V-4XL0aO
#vaccineswork #pophealth #medsoc #publichealth
Lars E. F. JohannessenJan 17, 2023

Check out our new paper in Sociology of Health & Illness, which features sociological musings on diagnosis, anticipation, medically unexplained symptoms, turfing, and much more. Written together with the esteemable Erik Rasmussen and Gethin Rees.

http://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9566.13610

#Medsoc #Sociology #Diagnosis #MedicalSociology

Dr. Angela CassidyJan 13, 2023

Paging #medhums #histmed #medsoc folks. @EdwinFlay's solo play, imagining the confession of Harold Shipman, was recorded this summer and will be available online!
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"The Quality of Mercy" by @EdwinFlay @NailedCreates @La_Lawrie performed at @CourtyardHoxton

Watch on Friday from 6pm, also available with #subtitles. Click and set a reminder on the video:
https://www.scenesaver.co.uk/production/th…
https://twitter.com/scenesaver/status/1613497643631624193

That's Entertainment - Scenesaver

That's Entertainment is an autobiographical one woman show created by Thelma Ruby to celebrate her 95th birthday

Scenesaver
Richard M. Carpiano, PhD, MPHJan 12, 2023
Good read...
What’s standing in the way of wastewater data becoming a more mainstream public health tool
https://www.statnews.com/2023/01/11/wastewater-data-biobot-health-covid19/
#PopHealth #medsoc #policy #PublicHealth #COVID19
What's standing in the way of wastewater data becoming a more mainstream public health tool

When case counts suggest Covid-19 is in check, the truth is in the toilets.

STAT
Alexandra Vinson she/herJan 5, 2023
If you’re finalizing your #medsoc syllabus and want a short paper that links the soc imagination to health systems, check out my new paper, just published in Contexts Mag. I use the case of the Learning Health System to talk about building real utopias and shaking up established relations in healthcare, esp in the context of covid and racial/gender justice movements in the US. Happy to do a class visit & explainer if you teach it! https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/15365042221131073