Research Guides: Health Sciences: Health Disparities

Racial, Ethnic, and other Disparities

October 2023 -- See 2 ebooks

Braveman, Paula. 2023. The Social Determinants of Health and Health Disparities.

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Coughlin, Steven, Lovoria Williams, and Tabia Henry Akintobi, eds. 2023. Black Health in the South. Link to come.

February 2022 -- See Health Affairs February 2022 special issue focusing on Racism & Health.

2022 Article -- Inequalities in Life Expectancy Across North Carolina : A Spatial Analysis of the Social Determinants of Health and the Index of Concentration at Extremes
Mitchell, Jessica H. BS; Runkle, Jennifer D. PhD; Andersen, Lauren M. MA; Shay, Elizabeth PhD; Sugg, Margaret M. PhD Inequalities in Life Expectancy Across North Carolina, Family & Community Health: February 04, 2022. doi: 10.1097/FCH.0000000000000318
2022 review -- Reimagining Rural: Shifting Paradigms About Health and Well-Being in the Rural United States
Afifi, R.A., E.A. Parker, G. Dino, D.M. Hall, and B. Ulin. “Reimagining Rural: Shifting Paradigms About Health and Well-Being in the Rural United States.” Annual Review of Public Health 43, no. 1 (April 1, 2022): https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-publhealth-052020-123413.

Selection of Review Articles on Health Disparities in the USA

It's interesting to search on "critical race theory" in PubMed.

Here are some recent reviews of primary studies on health disparities, ranging from dental and mental to heart disease, stroke, and cancer.

Cadoret, Cynthia A., and Raul I. Garcia. 2014. “Health Disparities and the Multicultural Imperative.” The Journal of Evidence-Based Dental Practice 14 Suppl (June): 160–70.e1. doi:10.1016/j.jebdp.2014.02.003. AppState full text link.

Douthit, N., S. Kiv, T. Dwolatzky, and S. Biswas. 2015. “Exposing Some Important Barriers to Health Care Access in the Rural USA.” Public Health 129 (6): 611–20. doi:10.1016/j.puhe.2015.04.001. AppState full text link.

Graham, Garth. 2014. “Population-Based Approaches to Understanding Disparities in Cardiovascular Disease Risk in the United States.” International Journal of General Medicine 7: 393–400. doi:10.2147/IJGM.S65528. Full text link.

Howard, George. 2013. “Ancel Keys Lecture: Adventures (and Misadventures) in Understanding (and Reducing) Disparities in Stroke Mortality.” Stroke; a Journal of Cerebral Circulation 44 (11). doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.113.002113. Full text link.

Kim, Minjeong. 2014. “Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Depression and Its Theoretical Perspectives.” The Psychiatric Quarterly 85 (1): 1–8. doi:10.1007/s11126-013-9265-3. AppState full text link.

Landsbergis, Paul A., Joseph G. Grzywacz, and Anthony D. LaMontagne. 2014. “Work Organization, Job Insecurity, and Occupational Health Disparities.” American Journal of Industrial Medicine 57 (5): 495–515. doi:10.1002/ajim.22126. AppState full text link.

O’Keefe, Eileen B., Jeremy P. Meltzer, and Traci N. Bethea. 2015. “Health Disparities and Cancer: Racial Disparities in Cancer Mortality in the United States, 2000-2010.” Frontiers in Public Health 3: 51. doi:10.3389/fpubh.2015.00051. Full text link.