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Mission Statement
The Journal of Health and Social Behavior is a medical sociology journal that publishes empirical and theoretical articles that apply sociological concepts and methods to the understanding of health and illness and the organization of medicine and health care. Its editorial policy favors manuscripts that are grounded in important theoretical issues in medical sociology or the sociology of mental health and that advance our theoretical understanding of the processes by which social factors and human health are interrelated.

Marital Biography and Health at Mid-life by Mary Elizabeth Hughes and Linda J. Waite (September 2009)

Understanding the Effects of Personal and School Religiosity on the Decision to Abort a Premarital Pregnancy by Amy Adamczyk (June 2009)

Mothers’ Community Participation and Child Health by Jenna Nobles and Elizabeth Frankenberg (March 2009)

Pollution Comes Home and Gets Personal: Women’s Experience of Household Chemical Exposure by Rebecca Gasior Altman, Rachel Morello-Frosch, Julia Green Brody, Ruthann Rudel, Phil Brown, and Mara Averick (December 2008)

'The Times They Are a Changin': Marital Status and Health Differentials from 1972 to 2003 by Hui Liu and Debra J. Umberson (September 2008)

Racial/Ethnic Differences in Asthma Prevalence: The Role of Housing and Neighborhood Environments by Emily Rosenbaum (June 2008)

Incarceration as Exposure: The Prison, Infectious Disease, and Other Stress-Related Illnesses by Michael Massoglia (March 2008)

Obesity and Hospitalization over the Adult Life Course: Does Duration of Exposure Increase Use? by Markus H. Schafer and Kenneth F. Ferraro (December 2007)

Early Childbearing, Marital Status, and Women's Health and Mortality after Age 50 by John C. Henretta (September 2007)

Depression and the Psychological Benefits of Entering Marriage by Adrianne Frech and Kristi Williams (June 2007)

Age, Ethnicity, and Use of Complementary and Alternative Medicine in Health Self-Management by Joseph G. Grzywacz, Cynthia K. Suerken, Rebecca H. Neiberg, Wei Lang, Ronny A. Ball, Sara A. Quandt, and Thomas A. Arcury(March 2007)

Supportive Parenting Moderates the Effect of Discrimination upon Anger, Hostile View of Relationships, and Violence among African American Boys by Ronald L. Simons, Leslie Gordon Simons, Callie Harbin Burt, Holli Drummund, Eric Stewart, Gene H. Brody, Frederick X. Gibbons, and Carolyn Cutrona (December 2006)

Extracurricular Activities, Athletic Participation, and Adolescent Alcohol Use: Gender-Differentiated and School-Contextual Effects by John P. Hoffman (September 2006)

Preference for Same-Sex Health Care Providers and Perceptions of Interpersonal Discrimination in Health Care by Jennifer Malat and Mary Ann Hamilton (June 2006)

You Make Me Sick: Marital Quality and Health Over the Life Course by Debra Umberson, Kristi Williams, Daniel Powers, Hui Liu, and Belinda Needham (March 2006)

Clarifying the Relationship Between Parenthood and Depression by Ranae J. Evenson and Robin W. Simon (December 2005)

Why the United States Has No National Health Insurance (PDF) by Jill Quadagno (Extra Issue 2004) (Members Only)

Socioeconomic Status and Health: A Micro-level Analysis of Exposure and Vulnerability to Daily Stressors by Joseph Grzywacz, David M. Almeida, Stevaun D. Neupert, and Susan L. Ettner (March 2004) (Members Only)

Status Inequalities, Perceived Discrimination, and Eudaimonic Well-being: Do the Challenges of Minority Life Hone Purpose and Growth? by Carol D. Ryff, Corey L.M. Keyes, and Diane L. Hughes (September 2003) (Members Only)