Facilitating mechanisms for integrating care to promote health equity across the life course: reflections from social work trainees

2018 ◽  
Vol 58 (1) ◽  
pp. 60-74
Author(s):  
Rebecca Reno ◽  
Brieanne Beaujolais ◽  
Tamara S. Davis
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
The Life Course

An Update on the Relevance of the Life Course Perspective for Social Work

2019 ◽  
Vol 100 (4) ◽  
pp. 351-366 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth D. Hutchison
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Life Events ◽  
Empirical Investigation ◽  
Behavioral Science ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Historical Time ◽  
Making Choices ◽  
Basic Concepts ◽  
The Life Course

In recent years, the life course perspective has received increasing support from researchers across a number of behavioral science disciplines. The purpose of this article is to examine the relevance to social work of selected findings of the last 15 years of empirical investigation of life course concepts and themes. This discussion is organized around five basic concepts (cohorts, transitions, trajectories, life events, and turning points) and six interrelated themes (interplay of human lives and historical time, timing of lives, linked or interdependent lives, human agency in making choices, diversity in life course trajectories, and developmental risk and protection). Implications of life course theory and research for social work are overviewed.

scholarly journals “I AM a Man”: Manhood, Minority Men’s Health and Health Equity

2015 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 287 ◽  
Author(s):  
Derek M. Griffith, PhD
Keyword(s):  
Social Norms ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Health Outcomes ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Stress Responses ◽  
Men’S Health ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Men's Health ◽  
The Life Course ◽  
Over Time

<p><strong>Objective: </strong>To consider how manhood is a key social determinant of minority men’s health.</p><p><strong>Design: </strong>This commentary explicates how manhood intersects with other determinants of health to shape minority men’s stress responses, health behaviors and health outcomes across the life course.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Manhood, which perpetu­ally needs to be proven, is an aspirational identity that is defined by the intersection of age, race/ethnicity and other identities. Mi­nority men seek to and successfully embody US-cultural and ethnic-specific aspects of manhood in their daily lives by engaging in behaviors that constantly reaffirm their gen­der identity through a complex internal and social calculus that varies by intra-personal characteristics and context. Manhood and health are relational constructs that highlight how the salience of masculinities are shaped by perceived and actual social norms and expectations. A life course perspective adds a framework for considering how some gendered beliefs, goals and behaviors change over time while others remain static. Three life course frameworks highlight dif­ferent mechanisms through which minority men’s life experiences and physiological and behavioral responses to gendered social norms, beliefs and expectations become embodied as premature mortality and other health outcomes over the life course.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Manhood represents an impor­tant lens to understand how minority men’s identities, goals and priorities affect their health, yet the role of manhood in minority men’s health is understudied and under­developed. To achieve health equity, it is critical to consider how manhood shapes minority men’s lives and health across the life course, and to address how man­hood affects gendered and non-gendered mechanisms and pathways that explain minority men’s health over time. <em>Ethn Dis. </em>2015;25(3):287-293.</p>

Introduction: Risk, Social Inclusion and the Life Course

2013 ◽  
Vol 12 (2) ◽  
pp. 253-264 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jens O. Zinn
Keyword(s):  
Social Work ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Life Course ◽  
Gender Studies ◽  
Old Age ◽  
Social Inclusion ◽  
Research Collaboration ◽  
Policy Practice ◽  
Policy Debates ◽  
The Life Course

In social policy debates and research over recent years, ‘risk’, ‘social inclusion’ and ‘the life course’ have become influential topics. In this themed section we will revisit these concepts and analyse how they have influenced policy debates and research in Australia and elsewhere. The contributions were developed as part of a research collaboration that brings together expertise from social policy, gender studies, risk sociology, social work, youth studies and research on ageing and old age. This introduction outlines the concepts and dimensions we found helpful for analysing social policy practice and research and the key arguments of the contributions.

scholarly journals Racism and the Life Course: Social and Health Equity for Older Black Americans

2021 ◽  
Vol 5 (Supplement_1) ◽  
pp. 252-252
Author(s):  
Harry Taylor ◽  
Robert Taylor ◽  
Linda Chatters
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Health Equity ◽  
Adult Development ◽  
Black Americans ◽  
Life Course Perspective ◽  
Systemic Racism ◽  
Neighborhood Conditions ◽  
Linked Lives ◽  
State Of Affairs ◽  
The Life Course

Abstract Racism and the Life Course: Social and Health Equity for Older Black Americans examines the impacts of systemic racism on adult development and the aging trajectories of Black Americans. Using the life course perspective (e.g., socio-historical events, linked lives), we discuss systemic racism as a structural driver of practices and policies (e.g., racial residential segregation) that have shaped the social and health circumstances of older Black Americans. These life circumstances include high rates of poverty, poor housing and neighborhood conditions, worse health profiles, and relationship loss and social isolation—conditions that, for too many older Black adults, represent the ‘normal’ state of affairs. Creating a ‘new normal’ of social and health equity for older Black Americans requires recognizing and disrupting the operation of systemic racism in our policies and practices. Selected recommendations and actions for achieving health and social equity for older Black Americans are discussed.

Human Development in the Life Course

2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tania Zittoun ◽  
Jaan Valsiner ◽  
Dankert Vedeler ◽  
Joao Salgado ◽  
Miguel M. Goncalves ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Life Course ◽  
Human Development ◽  
The Life Course
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