LaVeist, Isaac:

Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader, 2nd Edition

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Table Of Contents

Chapter 1: The Color Line: Race Matters in the Elimination of Health Disparities

Chapter 2: Health Care Disparities—Science, Politics, and Race

Chapter 3: Health Care Disparities—Science, Politics, and Race

Chapter 4: Why Genes Don’t Count (for Racial Differences in Health)

Chapter 5: Using “Socially Assigned Race” to Probe White Advantages in Health Status

Chapter 6: Racism as a Stressor for African Americans: A Biopsychosocial Model

Chapter 7: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research on Self-Reported Racism and Health

Chapter 8: Stress, Coping, and Health Outcomes Among African-Americans: A Review of the John Henryism Hypothesis

Chapter 9: Race and Unhealthy Behaviors: Chronic Stress, the HPA Axis, and Physical and Mental Health Disparities Over the Life Course

Chapter 10: Epigenetics and the Embodiment of Race: Developmental Origins of U.S. Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Health

Chapter 11: Acculturation and Latino Health in the United States: A Review of the Literature and Its Sociopolitical Context

Chapter 12: Measuring Culture: A Critical Review of Acculturation and Health in Asian Immigrant Populations

Chapter 13: Racial Influences Associated with Weight-Related Beliefs in African American and Caucasian Women

Chapter 14: Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Differences Between U.S.- and Foreign-Born Women in Major U.S. Racial and Ethnic Groups

Chapter 15: Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener’s Tale

Chapter 16: Racial Residential Segregation: A Fundamental Cause of Racial Disparities in Health

Chapter 17: Life Course Theories of Race Disparities: A Comparison of the Cumulative Dis/Advantage Theory Perspective and the Weathering Hypothesis

Chapter 18: U.S. Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations

Chapter 19: Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities

Chapter 20: Race/Ethnicity, the Social Environment, and Health

Chapter 21: Built Environments and Obesity in Disadvantaged Populations

Chapter 22: Health Risk and Inequitable Distribution of Liquor Stores in African American Neighborhoods

Chapter 23: Environmental Health Disparities: A Framework Integrating Psychosocial and Environmental Concepts

Chapter 24: Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Scientific Evidence, Methods, and Research Implications for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Occupational Health

Chapter 25: Attitudes About Racism, Medical Mistrust, and Satisfaction with Care Among African American and White Cardiac Patients

Chapter 26: The Legacy of Tuskegee and Trust in Medical Care: Is Tuskegee Responsible for Race Differences in Mistrust of Medical Care?

Chapter 27: Patient Race/Ethnicity and Quality of Patient–Physician Communication During Medical Visits

Chapter 28: Implicit Bias Among Physicians and Its Prediction of Thrombolysis Decisions for Black and White Patients

Chapter 29: The Effect of Patient Race and Socio-Economic Status on Physicians’ Perceptions of Patients

Chapter 30: Ethnicity and Analgesic Practice

Chapter 31: The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians’ Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization

Chapter 32: Advancing Health Disparities Research Within the Health Care System: A Conceptual Framework

Chapter 33: Linking Cultural Competence Training to Improved Health Outcomes: Perspectives from the Field

Chapter 34: “We Don’t Carry That”—Failure of Pharmacies in Predominantly Nonwhite Neighborhoods to Stock Opioid Analgesics

Chapter 35: Do Hospitals Provide Lower-Quality Care to Minorities Than to Whites?

Chapter 36: Linking Science and Policy Through Community-Based Participatory Research to Study and Address Health Disparities

Chapter 37: The National Health Plan Collaborative to Reduce Disparities and Improve Quality

Chapter 38: Interventions to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

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