Race, ethnicity, and health : a public health reader /

"Race, Ethnicity and Health, Second Edition, is a new and critical selection of hallmark articles that address health disparities in America. It effectively documents the need for equal treatment and equal health status for minorities. Intended as a resource for faculty and students in public h...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: LaVeist, Thomas Alexis (Editor), Isaac, Lydia A., 1977- (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Francisco : Jossey-Bass, [2013]
Edition:Second edition.
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Defining health and health care disparities and examining disparities across the life span
  • The color line: race matters in the elimination of health disparities
  • Health care disparities: science, politics, and race
  • Why genes don't count (for racial differences in health)
  • Using "Socially assigned race" to probe white advantages in health status
  • Psychosocial and individual-level determinants
  • Racism as a stressor for African Americans: a biopsychosocial model
  • A systematic review of empirical research on self-reported racism and health
  • Stress, coping, and health outcomes among African-Americans: a review of the John Henryism hypothesis
  • Race and unhealthy behaviors: chronic stress, the HPA axis, and physical and mental health disparities over the life course
  • Epigenetics and the embodiment of race: developmental origins of U.S. racial disparities in cardiovascular health
  • The effects of culture
  • Acculturation and Latino health in the United States: a review of the literature and its sociopolitical context
  • Measuring culture: a critical review of acculturation and health in Asian immigrant populations
  • Racial influences associated with weight-related beliefs in African American and Caucasian women
  • Adverse pregnancy outcomes: differences between U.S.- and foreign-born women in major U.S. racial and ethnic groups
  • Social determinants
  • Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener's tale
  • Racial residential segregation: a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health
  • Life course theories of race disparities: a comparison of the cumulative dis/advantage theory perspective and the weathering hypothesis
  • U.S. socioeconomic and racial differences in health: patterns and explanations
  • Exploring health disparities in integrated communities
  • Environmental determinants
  • Race/ethnicity, the social environment, and health
  • Built environments and obesity in disadvantaged populations
  • Health risk and inequitable distribution of liquor stores in African American neighborhoods
  • Environmental health disparities: a framework integrating psychosocial and environmental concepts
  • Sick and tired of being sick and tired: scientific evidence, methods, and research implications for racial and ethnic disparities in occupational health
  • Patients
  • Attitudes abut racism, medical mistrust, and satisfaction with care among African American and white cardiac patients
  • The legacy of Tuskegee and trust in medical care: is Tuskegee responsible for race differences in mistrust of medical care?
  • Patient race/ethnicity and quality of patient-physician communication during medical visits
  • Providers
  • Implicit bias among physicians and its prediction of thromolysis decisions for black and white patients
  • The effect of patient race and socio-economic status on physicians' perceptions of patients
  • Ethnicity and analgesic practice
  • The effect of race and sex on physicians' recommendations for cardiac catheterization
  • System
  • Advancing health disparities research within the health care system: a conceptual framework
  • Linking cultural competence training to improved health outcomes: perspectives from the field
  • "We don't carry that": failure of pharmacies in predominantly nonwhite neighborhoods to stock opioid analgesics
  • Do hospitals provide lower-quality care to minorities than to whites?
  • Linking science and policy through community-based participatory research to study and address health disparities
  • The national health plan collaborative to reduce disparities and improve quality
  • Interventions to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health care