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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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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San Francisco :
Jossey-Bass,
[2013]
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| 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