Socioeconomic factors: education, economic resources, housing, early childhood development, neighborhoods, criminal injustice, …. (student facilitators select topics)
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- Up one level
- Course schedule and outline (copy)
(For convenience in refering to during class)
- Main points - contextual factors
- Humor: SMBC - Naughty and nice
- Unnatural Causes - Is inequality making us sick?
Seven-part documentary series exploring racial & socioeconomic inequalities in health.
California Newsreel, http://www.newsreel.org/
Producers of "Race the Power of an Illusion" (http://newsreel.org/video/RACE-THE-POWER-OF-AN-ILLUSION) and "Raising America's Children" (in production)
- The Raising of America
From California Newsreel
- Sarah Gehlert et al.: Targeting Health Disparities: A Model Linking Upstream Determinants To Downstream Interventions
We present a downward causal model, originating at the population level and ending at disease, with psychological and behavioral responses linking the two.
Sarah Gehlert, Dana Sohmer, Tina Sacks, Charles Mininger, Martha McClintock, and Olufunmilayo Olopade
Health Aff (Millwood). 2008; 27(2): 339–349
- Harold Freeman on breast cancer mortality disparities
- Annie Lowrey: Income gap, meet the longevity gap
Income Gap, Meet the Longevity Gap, by Annie Lowrey, NY Times, March 15, 2014
- Adimora and Schoenbach - Social Context, Sexual Networks, and Racial Disparities in Rates of Sexually Transmitted Infections
The Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2005;191, Supplement 1:S115-S122.
- A pot hangover
- Social determinants of health
Reports and websites
- For discussion: E-cigarettes
A former Surgeon General lends his support to E-cigarettes.
Science 7 Feb 2014;343:589
- The Nation
Read any article
- Report of the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health
- Bibliographic resources compilation
Vic's compendium of possible resources
- UNC webcasts
- Thomas and Thomas. ... social forces underlying racial disparities in rates of sexually transmitted diseases in a rural North Carolina county
James C. Thomas and Karen K. Thomas. Things ain't what they ought to be: social forces underlying racial disparities in rates of sexually transmitted diseases in a rural North Carolina county. Social Science & Medicine 1999;49:1075-1084 (article)
- Pruitt-Igoe housing complex
- Moving To Opportunity (MTO) for Fair Housing Demonstration Program
- John Cassel. The Contribution of the Social Environment to Host Resistance
The Fourth Wade Hampton Frost Lecture.
American Journal of Epidemiology 1976; 104(2):107-123