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Braveman P, Egerter S, et al. Overcoming Obstacles to Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation February 2008. (Available online from www.commissiononhealth.org or from www.rwjf.org; hard copies also can be ordered free of charge) Cohen S, Janicki-Deverts D, Miller GE. Psychological stress and disease. JAMA 2007;298(14):1685-7. Duncan GJ, Yeung WJ, Brooks-Gunn J, Smith JR. How much does childhood poverty affect the life chances of children? American Sociological Review. 1998; 63:406-423. 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):826-33. Geronimus AT, Korenman S. Maternal youth or family background? On the health disadvantages of infants with teenage mothers. Am J Epidemiol. 1993; 137:213-225. Independent inquiry into inequalities in health report. (The Acheson Report) London: Stationary Office, 1998 (http://www.archive.official-documents.co.uk/document/doh/ih/contents.htm) Isaacs SL, Schroeder SA. Class - the ignored determinant of the nation's health. N Engl J Med 2004;351(11):1137-42. Jones, CP. Levels of racism: a theoretic framework and a gardener s tale. Am J Public Health. 2000; 90:1212-1215. 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: 999-1003. Kaplan GA. People and places: contrasting perspectives on the association between social class and health. Int J Health Serv. 1996; 26:507-519. 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; 87:1491-1498. Kawachi I, Daniels N, Robinson D. Health Disparities by Race and Class: Why Both Matter. Health Affairs. March/April 2005; Vol. 24, No. 2, 343-352. 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: 1004-1007. Krieger N. Proximal, distal, and the politics of causation: what's level got to do with it? Am J Public Health 2008;98(2):221-30. Page 2 of 6
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; 93:194-199. Krieger N. Embodying inequality: a review of concepts, measures, and methods for studying health consequences of discrimination. Int J Health Serv. 1999; 29:295-352. Krieger N. Epidemiology and the web of causation: Has anyone seen the spider? Soc Sci Med. 1994; 39:887-903. Krieger, N, Williams DR, Moss N. Measuring social class in US public health research: concepts, methodologies, and guidelines. Annu Rev Public Health. 1997; 18:341-378. Lochner K, Kawachi I, Kennedy BP. Social capital: a guide to its measurement. Health Place 1999;5(4):259-70. Lynch JW, Kaplan GA. Understanding how inequality in the distribution of income affects health. Journal of Health Psychology. 1997; 2:297-314. 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; 44:809-819. 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, 2004. Macintyre S. Inequalities in health in Scotland: what are they and what can we do about them. (Available at: http://www.sphsu.mrc.ac.uk/files/file/reports/op017.pdf) Macintyre S. The patterning of health by social position in contemporary Britain: directions for sociological research. Soc Sci Med. 1986; 23:393-415. 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; 349:1655-1659. 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; 44:757-771. 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; 337:1387-1393. 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):901-910. 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):25-45. 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
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