Social Epidemiology

Mistreatment of Michigan farmworkers: Researchers document abuses, push for change

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.

What will it take to make mental health coverage and care better?

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.

Statewide report explores pandemic's effects on Michigan residents depending on where they live

New MI CReSS report

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.

COVID-19 stigma and mental health: Who hid their illness, who shared and why it still matters

New MI CReSS Data Report

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.

Promoting healthy memory aging in older cancer survivors

Postdoctoral fellow Ashly Westrick receives grant from National Institute on Aging

Postdoctoral fellow Ashly Westrick discusses her epidemiological research on health inequalities in cancer outcomes. Westrick was recently awarded a grant from the National Institute on Aging to examine memory aging in older cancer survivors in the US and England.

Cumulative loneliness associated with accelerated memory aging in older adults

New research from Xuexin Yu and Lindsay Kobayashi

Prolonged loneliness in adults over 65 may be an important risk factor for accelerated memory aging, according to a new study led by University of Michigan School of Public Health researchers.