Call for Papers: SOCIAL SOURCES OF DISPARITIES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE AND LINKAGES TO POLICY, POPULATION CONCERNS AND PROVIDERS OF CARE.

From the Health Equity Council listserv:

Papers are being sought for volume 27 of Research in The Sociology of Health Care published formerly by Elsevier Press and now by Emerald Press. The major theme for this volume is SOCIAL SOURCES OF DISPARITIES IN HEALTH AND HEALTH CARE AND LINKAGES TO POLICY, POPULATION CONCERNS AND PROVIDERS OF CARE.

Papers dealing with macro-level system issues and micro-level issues involving social sources of disparities in health and health care are sought. This includes examination of social, demographic and structural sources of disparities in health and health care. This also includes papers that try to link an understanding of the causal processes between disadvantage and health disparities. This includes a consideration of social sources of disparities across the life course.





Papers that focus on linkages to policy, population concerns and providers of care as ways to meet health care needs of people both in the US and in other countries would be welcome. The focus can be from a consumer side or a provider or policy perspective. Papers that raise issues of the availability of services, access to those services, quality of services and the role of government in services provision would all be appropriate.

For papers examining social sources of disparity in health and health care delivery systems in other countries, the focus could be on issues of delivery systems in those countries and ways in which revisions and changes impact population health, especially if those are then also related to broader concerns in health care in the US or other countries as well.

The volume will contain 10 to 14 papers, generally between 20 and 40 pages in length. Send completed manuscripts or detailed outlines for review by February 15, 2009.

Send to:

Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld, Sociology Program, School of Social and Family Dynamics, Box 873701, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287-4802 (phone 480 965-8053; E-mail, Jennie.Kronenfeld@asu.edu). Initial inquiries can be by email.