Adults with higher educational attainment live healthier and longer lives compared with their
less educated peers. The disparities are large and widening. We posit that understanding …

There are persistent and pervasive disparities in the health of Black people compared to non‐
Hispanic Whites in the United States. There are many reasons for this gap; this article …

Background A clear understanding of the macro-level contexts in which education impacts
health is integral to improving national health administration and policy. In this research, we …

Human societies have always been deeply interconnected with our ecosystems, but today
those relationships are witnessing greater frictions, tensions, and harms than ever before …

Objectives: This study describes key population health concepts and examines major
empirical trends in US health and healthcare inequalities from 1935 to 2016 according to …

In this article the author examines how the frameworks of color-blind racism have influenced
many topics during the pandemic. Using readily available material from popular culture (TV …

Purpose The weathering hypothesis states that chronic exposure to social and economic
disadvantage leads to accelerated decline in physical health outcomes and could partially …

We previously proposed that socioeconomic status (SES) is a fundamental cause of health
inequalities and, as such, that SES inequalities in health persist over time despite radical …

During the past two decades, the public health community's attention has been drawn
increasingly to the social determinants of health (SDH)—the factors apart from medical care …

In 1999, only 20 studies in the public health literature employed instruments to measure self-
reported experiences of discrimination. Fifteen years later, the number of empirical …