Main description:

Race, Ethnicity and Health, Second Edition, is a 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 health as well as the social sciences, it will be also be valuable to public health administrators and frontline staff who serve diverse racial and ethnic populations. The book brings together the best peer reviewed research literature from the leading scholars and faculty in this growing field, providing a historical and political context for the study of health, race, and ethnicity, with key findings on disparities in access, use, and quality. This volume also examines the role of health care providers in health disparities and discusses the issue of matching patients and doctors by race.

New chapters cover: reflections on demographic changes in the US based on the current census; metrics and nomenclature for disparities; theories of genetic basis for disparities; the built environment; residential segregation; environmental health; occupational health; health disparities in integrated communities; Latino health; Asian populations; stress and health; physician/patient relationships; hospital treatment of minorities; the slavery hypertension hypothesis; geographic disparities; and intervention design.

Contents:

Sources xi The Editors xv The Authors xvii Introduction: The Ethnic Demographic Transition 1 Thomas A. LaVeist Chapter 1 Defi ning Health and Health Care Disparities and Examining Disparities Across the Life Span 11 Lydia A. Isaac PART 1 HISTORICAL AND POLITICAL CONSIDERATIONS Chapter 2 The Color Line: Race Matters in the Elimination of Health Disparities 35 Stephen B. Thomas Chapter 3 Health Care Disparities Science, Politics, and Race 41 M. Gregg Bloche PART 2 CONCEPTUALIZING RACE AND ETHNICITY Chapter 4 Why Genes Don t Count (for Racial Differences in Health) 49 Alan H. Goodman Chapter 5 Using Socially Assigned Race to Probe White Advantages in Health Status 57 Camara Phyllis Jones, Benedict I. Truman, Laurie D. Elam-Evans, Camille A. Jones, Clara Y. Jones, Ruth Jiles, Susan F. Rumisha, Geraldine S. Perry PART 3 EXPLAINING RACIAL AND ETHNIC DISPARITIES PSYCHOSOCIAL AND INDIVIDUAL-LEVEL DETERMINANTS 77 Chapter 6 Racism as a Stressor for African Americans: A Biopsychosocial Model 79 Rodney Clark, Norman B. Anderson, Vernessa R. Clark, David R. Williams Chapter 7 A Systematic Review of Empirical Research on Self-Reported Racism and Health 105 Yin Paradies Chapter 8 Stress, Coping, and Health Outcomes Among African-Americans: A Review of the John Henryism Hypothesis 139 Gary G. Bennett, Marcellus M. Merritt, John J. Sollers III, Christopher L. Edwards, Keith E. Whitfield, Dwayne T. Brandon, Reginald D. Tucker-Seeley Chapter 9 Race and Unhealthy Behaviors: Chronic Stress, the HPA Axis, and Physical and Mental Health Disparities Over the Life Course 159 James S. Jackson, Katherine M. Knight, Jane A. Rafferty Chapter 10 Epigenetics and the Embodiment of Race: Developmental Origins of U.S. Racial Disparities in Cardiovascular Health 175 Christopher W. Kuzawa, Elizabeth Sweet THE EFFECTS OF CULTURE 213 Chapter 11 Acculturation and Latino Health in the United States: A Review of the Literature and Its Sociopolitical Context 215 Marielena Lara, Cristina Gamboa, M. Iya Kahramanian, Leo S. Morales, David E. Hayes Bautista Chapter 12 Measuring Culture: A Critical Review of Acculturation and Health in Asian Immigrant Populations 253 Talya Salant, Diane S. Lauderdale Chapter 13 Racial Influences Associated with Weight-Related Beliefs in African American and Caucasian Women 291 Christie Z. Malpede, Lori F. Greene, Stephanie L. Fitzpatrick, Wendy K. Jefferson, Richard M. Shewchuk, Monica L. Baskin, Jamy D. Ard Chapter 14 Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes: Differences Between U.S.- and Foreign-Born Women in Major U.S. Racial and Ethnic Groups 303 Gopal K. Singh, Stella M. Yu SOCIAL DETERMINANTS 321 Chapter 15 Levels of Racism: A Theoretic Framework and a Gardener s Tale 323 Camara Phyllis Jones Chapter 16 Racial Residential Segregation: A Fundamental Cause of Racial Disparities in Health 331 David R. Williams, Chiquita Collins Chapter 17 Life Course Theories of Race Disparities: A Comparison of the Cumulative Dis/Advantage Theory Perspective and the Weathering Hypothesis 355 Roland J. Thorpe Jr., Jessica A. Kelley-Moore Chapter 18 U.S. Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health: Patterns and Explanations 375 David R. Williams, Chiquita Collins Chapter 19 Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities 419 Thomas A. LaVeist ENVIRONMENTAL DETERMINANTS 437 Chapter 20 Race/Ethnicity, the Social Environment, and Health 439 Marsha Lillie-Blanton, Thomas A. LaVeist Chapter 21 Built Environments and Obesity in Disadvantaged Populations 455 Gina S. Lovasi, Malo A. Hutson, Monica Guerra, Kathryn M. Neckerman Chapter 22 Health Risk and Inequitable Distribution of Liquor Stores in African American Neighborhoods 485 Thomas A. LaVeist, John M. Wallace Jr. Chapter 23 Environmental Health Disparities: A Framework Integrating Psychosocial and Environmental Concepts 493 Gilbert C. Gee, Devon C. Payne-Sturges Chapter 24 Sick and Tired of Being Sick and Tired: Scientific Evidence, Methods, and Research Implications for Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Occupational Health 523 Linda Rae Murray PART 4 HEALTH SERVICES AND HEALTH SYSTEM EFFECTS PATIENTS 539 Chapter 25 Attitudes About Racism, Medical Mistrust, and Satisfaction with Care Among African American and White Cardiac Patients 541 Thomas A. LaVeist, Kim J. Nickerson, Janice V. Bowie Chapter 26 The Legacy of Tuskegee and Trust in Medical Care: Is Tuskegee Responsible for Race Differences in Mistrust of Medical Care? 557 Dwayne T. Brandon, Lydia A. Isaac, Thomas A. LaVeist Chapter 27 Patient Race/Ethnicity and Quality of Patient Physician Communication During Medical Visits 569 Rachel L. Johnson, Debra Roter, Neil R. Powe, Lisa A. Cooper PROVIDERS 587 Chapter 28 Implicit Bias Among Physicians and Its Prediction of Thrombolysis Decisions for Black and White Patients 589 Alexander R. Green, Dana R. Carney, Daniel J. Pallin, Long H. Ngo, Kristal L. Raymond, Lisa I. Iezzoni, Mahzarin R. Banaji Chapter 29 The Effect of Patient Race and Socio-Economic Status on Physicians Perceptions of Patients 607 Michelle van Ryn, Jane Burke Chapter 30 Ethnicity and Analgesic Practice 637 Knox H. Todd, Christi Deaton, Anne P. D Adamo, Leon Goe Chapter 31 The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization 647 Kevin A. Schulman, Jesse A. Berlin, William Harless, Jon F. Kerner, Shyrl Sistrunk, Bernard J. Gersh, Ross Dube, Christopher K. Taleghani, Jennifer E. Burke, Sankey Williams, John M. Eisenberg, Jose J. Escarce SYSTEM 665 Chapter 32 Advancing Health Disparities Research Within the Health Care System: A Conceptual Framework 667 Amy M. Kilbourne, Galen Switzer, Kelly Hyman, Megan Crowley-Matoka, Michael J. Fine Chapter 33 Linking Cultural Competence Training to Improved Health Outcomes: Perspectives from the Field 689 Joseph R. Betancourt, Alexander R. Green Chapter 34 We Don t Carry That Failure of Pharmacies in Predominantly Nonwhite Neighborhoods to Stock Opioid Analgesics 697 R. Sean Morrison, Sylvan Wallenstein, Dana K. Natale, Richard S. Senzel, Lo-Li Huang Chapter 35 Do Hospitals Provide Lower-Quality Care to Minorities Than to Whites? 707 Darrell J. Gaskin, Christine S. Spencer, Patrick Richard, Gerard F. Anderson, Neil R. Powe, Thomas A. LaVeist PART 5 HEALTH DISPARITIES SOLUTIONS Chapter 36 Linking Science and Policy Through Community-Based Participatory Research to Study and Address Health Disparities 723 Meredith Minkler Chapter 37 The National Health Plan Collaborative to Reduce Disparities and Improve Quality 741 Nicole Lurie, Allen Fremont, Stephen A. Somers, Kathryn Coltin, Andrea Gelzer, Rhonda Johnson, Wayne Rawlins, Grace Ting, Winston Wong, Donna Zimmerman Chapter 38 Interventions to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care 761 Marshall H. Chin, Amy E. Walters, Scott C. Cook, Elbert S. Huang Index 787