The pandemic's role in shaping parents' attitudes toward vaccines
Q&A with Abram L. Wagner
A recent study conducted by Michigan Public Health researchers examines the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on parental vaccine hesitancy.
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Working from well-established research on the detrimental health effects of loneliness, University of Michigan researchers set out to study whether feeling lonely at multiple times through the years leads to more serious illness and higher mortality risk in mid to later life.
Recent research, published in the Labor Studies Journal, documents a range of dehumanizing, stressful, unsafe, and unhealthy workplace and living conditions. In their qualitative research effort, University of Michigan social epidemiologists Lisbeth Iglesias-Rios and Alexis Handal specifically explore the effects of precarious employment and labor exploitation on how they affect the health of farmworkers and their families.
New mental health parity efforts seek to address insurance issues and provider shortages, but more help is needed, experts say. Researchers from the University of Michigan School of Public Health and Michigan Medicine share their insight.
A new report examining the pandemic's impact on Michigan residents previously infected with COVID-19 explores differences between urban and rural communities, finding, for example, that nonmetropolitan residents more often reported long COVID while metropolitan residents more often reported barriers to care or treatment.
The latest in a series of statewide surveys exploring Michigan residents' experiences with COVID focused on social stigma and found that of 4,618 adults surveyed, 35% say they were treated badly, threatened or harassed or had people act afraid of them.