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1 Multidisciplinary Track Recommended Reading List Journal articles Acevedo-Garcia D, Soobader MJ, Berkman LF. Low birthweight among US Hispanic/Latino subgroups: the effect of maternal foreign-born status and education. Soc Sci Med 2007; 65(12): Acevedo-Garcia D. Residential segregation and the epidemiology of infectious diseases. Soc Sci Med 2000;51(8): Adler NE, Rehkopf DH. U.S. disparities in health: descriptions, causes, and mechanisms. Annu Rev Public Health 2008;29: Adler N, Newman K, Socioeconomic disparities in health: pathways and policies. Health Affairs 2002 Mar-Apr;21(2): Banks J., Marmot M., Oldfield Z, Smith J. Disease and disadvantage in the United States and in England. JAMA. 2006;295: Blank, R. Selecting Among Anti-Poverty Policies: Can an Economist be Both Critical and Caring? Review of Social Economy, 2003: 61(4): Borrell L. Self-Reported Hypertension and Race Among Hispanics in the National Health Interview Survey. Ethnicity & Disease. 2006: 16(1), Borrell L. Racial Identity Among Hispanics: Implications for Health and Well-Being. American Journal of Public Health (Editorials). March 2005, Vol, 95, No. 3, Bosma H, Marmot MG, Hemingway H, Nicholson AC, Brunner E, Stansfield SA. Low job control and risk of coronary heart disease in Whitehall II (prospective cohort) study. BMJ. 1997; 314: Braveman P. Health Disparities and Health Equity: Concepts and Measurements. Annu. Rev. Public Health 2006; 27: Braveman PA, Cubbin C, Egerter S, Chideya S, Marchi K, Posner S, Metzler M. Socioeconomic Status in Health Research: One Size Does Not Fit All. JAMA 2005;294(22): Page 1 of 6

2 Braveman P, Egerter S, et al. Overcoming Obstacles to Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation February (Available online from or from hard copies also can be ordered free of charge) Cohen S, Janicki-Deverts D, Miller GE. Psychological stress and disease. JAMA 2007;298(14): Duncan GJ, Yeung WJ, Brooks-Gunn J, Smith JR. How much does childhood poverty affect the life chances of children? American Sociological Review. 1998; 63: Freeman HP. Commentary on the Meaning of Race in Science and Society. Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention. March, 2003 (suppl.); Vol. 12; 232s-236s. Geronimus AT, Hicken M, Keene D, Bound J. "Weathering" and age patterns of allostatic load scores among blacks and whites in the United States. Am J Public Health 2006;96(5): Geronimus AT, Korenman S. Maternal youth or family background? On the health disadvantages of infants with teenage mothers. Am J Epidemiol. 1993; 137: Independent inquiry into inequalities in health report. (The Acheson Report) London: Stationary Office, 1998 ( Isaacs SL, Schroeder SA. Class - the ignored determinant of the nation's health. N Engl J Med 2004;351(11): Jones, CP. Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener s tale. Am J Public Health. 2000; 90: Kaplan GA, Pamuk ER, Lynch JW, Cohen RD, Balfour JL. Inequality in income and mortality in the United States: analysis of mortality and potential pathways. BMJ. 1996; 312: Kaplan GA. People and places: contrasting perspectives on the association between social class and health. Int J Health Serv. 1996; 26: Kaplan, GA. Health inequalities and the welfare state: perspectives from social epidemiology. Norsk Epidemi. 2007: 17(1): 9-20 Kawachi I, Kennedy BP, Lochner K, Prothrow-Stith D. Social capital, income inequality, and mortality. Am J Public Health 1997; 87: Kawachi I, Daniels N, Robinson D. Health Disparities by Race and Class: Why Both Matter. Health Affairs. March/April 2005; Vol. 24, No. 2, See also books by Kawachi in Books section Kennedy BP, Kawachi I, Prothrow-Stith D. Income distribution and mortality: cross sectional ecological study of the Robin Hood index in the United States. BMJ. 1996; 312: Krieger N. Proximal, distal, and the politics of causation: what's level got to do with it? Am J Public Health 2008;98(2): Page 2 of 6

3 Krieger N. Does racism harm health? Did child abuse exist before 1962?--On explicit questions, critical science, and current controversies: an ecosocial perspective. Am J Public Health. 2003; 93: Krieger N. Embodying inequality: a review of concepts, measures, and methods for studying health consequences of discrimination. Int J Health Serv. 1999; 29: Krieger N. Epidemiology and the web of causation: Has anyone seen the spider? Soc Sci Med. 1994; 39: Krieger, N, Williams DR, Moss N. Measuring social class in US public health research: concepts, methodologies, and guidelines. Annu Rev Public Health. 1997; 18: Lochner K, Kawachi I, Kennedy BP. Social capital: a guide to its measurement. Health Place 1999;5(4): Lynch JW, Kaplan GA. Understanding how inequality in the distribution of income affects health. Journal of Health Psychology. 1997; 2: Lynch JW, Kaplan GA, Salonen JT. Why do poor people behave poorly? Variation in adult health behaviours and psychosocial characteristics by stages of the socioeconomic lifecourse. Soc Sci Med. 1997; 44: Lynch JW, Smith GD, Harper S, Hillemeier, M, Ross, N, Kaplan, GA, Wolfson, M. Is Income Inequality a Determinant of Population Health? Part 1. A Systematic Review. Milbank Quarterly. Volume 82, Number 1, Macintyre S. Inequalities in health in Scotland: what are they and what can we do about them. (Available at: Macintyre S. The patterning of health by social position in contemporary Britain: directions for sociological research. Soc Sci Med. 1986; 23: Mackenbach JP, Kunst AE, Cavelaars AE, Groenhof F, Geurts JJ. Socioeconomic inequalities in morbidity and mortality in western Europe. The EU Working Group on Socioeconomic Inequalities in Health. Lancet. 1997; 349: Mackenbach JP, Kunst A. Measuring the magnitude of socio-economic inequalities in health: an overview of available measures illustrated with two examples from Europe. Soc Sci Med. 1997; 44: Marmot MG, Smith GD, Stansfeld S, Patel C, North F, Head J, White I, Brunner E, Feeney A. Health inequalities among British civil servants: the Whitehall II study. Lancet. 1991; 337: Marmot MG, Ryff CD, Bumpass LL, Shipley M, Marks NF. Social inequalities in health: next questions and converging evidence. Soc Sci Med. 1997; 44(6): Massey DS. Segregation and stratification: a biosocial perspective. The Dubois Review: Social Science Research on Race. 2004(1):1-19. Miller GE, Chen E, Zhou ES. If it goes up, must it come down? Chronic stress and the hypothalamic-pituitaryadrenocortical axis in humans. Psychol Bull 2007;133(1): Murray CJ, Kulkarni SC, Michaud C, Tomijima N, Bulzacchelli MT, Iandiorio TJ, et al. Eight Americas: investigating mortality disparities across races, counties, and race-counties in the United States. PLoS Med 2006;3(9):e260. Page 3 of 6

4 Steptoe A, Marmot M. The role of psychobiological pathways in socio-economic inequalities in cardiovascular disease risk. Eur Heart J 2002;23(1): Subramanian SV, Acevedo-Garcia D, Osypuk TL. Racial residential segregation and geographic heterogeneity in black/white disparity in poor self-rated health in the US: a multilevel statistical analysis. Soc Sci Med 2005;60(8): Syme SL. Social determinants of health: The community as an empowered partner. Preventing Chronic Disease. 1:1-5, Syme SL. The social determinants of disease: Some roots of the movement. Epidemiological Perspectives and Innovations. 2:2, April 19, United Nations. Universal Declaration of Human Rights. JAMA 1998; 297: UN GA resolution 217 A (III); December 10, UN document A/810 at 71 (1948). Wadsworth MEJ, Health inequalities in the life course perspective. Soc Sci Med 1997; 44: Warnecke RB, Oh A, Breen N, Gehlert S, Paskett E, Tucker KL, et al. Approaching Health Disparities From a Population Perspective: The National Institutes of Health Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities. Am J Public Health Wilkinson RG. Socioeconomic determinants of health. Health inequalities: relative or absolute material standards? BMJ 1997; 314(7080): Williams, DR. The concept of race in Health Services Research: 1966 to Health Services Research 1994; 29(3): Williams, DR, Collins, C. Racial residential segregation: a fundamental cause of racial disparities in health. Public Health Reports 2001; 116: Williams, DR. Race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status: measurement and methodological issues. Int J Health Serv. 1996; 26: World Health Organization (WHO) Commission on Social Determinants of Health. Achieving Health Equity: from root causes to fair outcomes. Geneva, 2007 (Interim report of the WHO Commission, available on World Health Organization (WHO) Task Force on Research Priorities for Equity in Health. Priorities for research to take forward the health equity policy agenda. Bulletin of the World Health Organization 2005, 83 (12) Books/Monographs Amick, Benjamin III et al., editors. Society and Health. New York, New York: Oxford University Press, Inc., Auerbach, J and Krimgold B, editors. Income, Socioeconomic Status, and Health: Exploring the Relationships. Washington, D.C.: National Policy Association Academy for Health Services Research and Health Policy, Berkman L, Kawachi I, editors. Social Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press; Page 4 of 6

5 Braithwaite R, Taylor S, editors. Health Issues in the Black Community. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; Braveman P, Egerter S et al., Overcoming Obstacles to Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, February available online (or hard copies can be ordered) from Evans T, Whitehead M, Diderichsen F, Bhuiya A, Wirth M, editors. Challenging Inequities in Health: From Ethics to Action. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc; Health and Wealth. Daedalus, Journal of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences Fall 1994; vol. 123, no. 4. Heymann J, Hertzman C, Barer M, and Evans R, eds. Healthier Societies. From Analysis to Action. New York: Oxford University Press, Inc; Hofrichter, R, editor. Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; The International Bank for Reconstruction and Development/The World Bank. World Development Report 2000/2001: Attacking Poverty. Washington, D.C.: Oxford University Press, Kawachi I, Berkman L, editors. Neighborhoods and Health. New York: Oxford University Press; Kawachi I, Kennedy B, editors. The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health. New York: The New Press; Kawachi, I., and L. Berkman. Social Cohesion, Social Capital and Health. In Lisa Berkman and Ichiro Kawachi (eds.), Social Epidemiology. New York: Oxford University Press: Kington R, Nickens, H. Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health: Recent Trends, Current Patterns, Future Directions. America Becoming: Racial Trends and Their Consequences, Volume 2. Washington, D.C. National Academy Press, LaVeist, T, editor. Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass; MacArthur Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health. Reaching for a Healthier Life. Facts on Socioeconomic Status and Health in the U.S. The John D and Catherine T MacArthur Foundation Research Network on Socioeconomic Status and Health (available online at McKeown, Thomas and Lowe, C.R. An Introduction to Social Medicine. 2 nd edition. Great Britain: Blackwell Scientific Publications, Navarro, Vicente, editor. The Political Economy of Social Inequalities: Consequences for Health and Quality of Life. Amityville, New York: Baywood Publishing Company, Inc., Physicians for Human Rights. The Right to Equal Treatment. Physicians for Human Rights Page 5 of 6

6 Rugulies R, Aust A, Syme SL. Epidemiology of health and illness: A socio-psycho-physiological perspective. In: The Sage Handbook of Health Psychology. London: Sage Publications, Schoeni RF, House JS, Kaplan GA, Pollack H. Making Americans Healthier: Social and Economic Policy as Health Policy. New York: Russell Sage, Shonkoff, Jack and Philips, Deborah, editors. From Neurons to Neighborhoods: The Science of Early Childhood Development. Washington, D.C.: National Academy Press, Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR, eds. Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Washington, DC: National Academy Press; Townsend, Peter and Davidson, Nick, editors. The Black Report. Whitehead, Margaret. The Health Divide. Inequalities in Health. 2 nd edition. London: Penguin Books, Page 6 of 6

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