EI n behalf on the Institute of Medicine and my colleagues on the committee, I would like to
outline the major find-ings and recommendations of our report, Un-equal Treatment …

Increasing social inequalities in health in the United States and elsewhere, coupled with
growing inequalities in income and wealth, have refocused attention on social class as a key …

From public health luminary Nancy Krieger comes a revolutionary way of addressing health
justice and the embodied truths of lived experience. Since the 1700s, fierce debates in …

Authoritative and comprehensive, this is the leading text and professional resource on using
geographic information systems (GIS) to analyze and address public health problems. Basic …

Investigating effects of discrimination upon health requires clear concepts, methods, and
measures. At issue are both economic consequences of discrimination and accumulated …

BACKGROUND. Most US medical records lack socioeconomic data, hindering studies of
social gradients in health and ascertainment of whether study samples are representative of …

Objective: The majority of research on breast cancer risk and socioeconomic status (SES)
has been conducted for blacks and whites. This study evaluates the relationship between …

Since the effects of racism and its impact on diagnosis, treatment, and access to mental
healthcare are ongoing, this review serves as a call to action rather than solely a review of …

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer and the most common cause of cancer-
related mortality among women worldwide. However, the burden is not evenly distributed …

Background Women without private health insurance are less likely than privately insured
women to be screened for breast cancer, and their treatment may differ after cancer is …