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My research interests sit at the intersection of medical sociology, spatial demography, population health, and environmental sociology. My scholarship seeks to use a political economy approach to understand how geographic disparities in health and mortality emerge and become exacerbated through the natural environment, socioeconomic contexts, and other spatialized forces. A theme that arises most often in my applied work is examining how political environments contribute to health disparities by shaping the distribution (and importance) of environmental hazards and socioeconomic resources within local spaces.
Air Pollution, Structural Forces, and Cardiovascular Disease Mortality
Sun, Yue. Forthcoming. “How Do States’ Environmental Policies Predict Geographic Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality?” Population Research and Policy Review
Sun, Yue. 2024. “Environmental Correlates of Mortality: How Does Air Pollution Contribute to Geographic Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality?” Population and Environment 46:1.
Sun, Yue, and Michael Esposito. “How Do Counties’ Industrial Structures Shape Geographic Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Mortality?” (Under Review)
Social Infrastructure, Climate Change, and Cognitive Health
Sun, Yue, Michael Esposito, Mallory Sagehorn, Robert A. Melendez, and Jessica M. Finlay. “Uneven Access to Essential Services and Amenities: Geographic Disparities in ‘Third Place’ Closures across the United States from 2010-2021.” (Under Review)
Finlay, Jessica M., Grace Savard, Desiree Alvarez-McNelis, Mallory Sagehorn, Grace Bowman, Yue Sun, and Michael Esposito. “Cognability Across Adulthood: A Qualitative Investigation of Neighborhoods and Cognitive Health Behaviors.” (Under Review)
Sun, Yue, Jessica M. Finlay, and Michael Esposito. “Extreme Environmental Events and Cognitive Health among Older Adults in the United States.” (In Progress)
Socioeconomic Contexts, State Policies, and COVID-19
Sun, Yue, and Erin M. Bisesti. 2023. “Political Economy of the COVID-19 Pandemic: How State Policies Shape County-Level Disparities in COVID-19 Deaths.” Socius: Sociological Research for a Dynamic World 9:1-13.
Sun, Yue, and Shannon M. Monnat. 2022. “Rural-Urban and Within-Rural Differences in COVID-19 Vaccination Rates.” The Journal of Rural Health 38(4):916-922.
Sun, Yue, and Danielle C. Rhubart. 2022. “Rural-Urban Differences in the Associations Between Aging and Disability Services and COVID-19 Vaccination Rates Among Older Adults.” Journal of Applied Gerontology 41(12):2583-2588.
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