CONTEXT: Adverse birth outcomes, such as preterm birth and low birth weight, have serious
health consequences across the life course. Socioeconomic disparities in birth outcomes …

Infant mortality (IM) and birth outcomes, key population health indicators, have lifelong
implications for individuals, and are unequally distributed globally. Even among western …

Objective: To overcome the absence of national, state, and local public health data on the
unequal economic and social burden of COVID-19 in the United States. Design: We analyze …

Objectives. To assess if historical redlining, the US government's 1930s racially
discriminatory grading of neighborhoods' mortgage credit-worthiness, implemented via the …

Close and caring relationships are undeniably linked to health and well-being at all stages
in the life span. Yet the specific pathways through which close relationships promote optimal …

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 …

Objectives. To describe the association between indicators of socioeconomic status (SES)
and the prevalence of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) in the United States during the period …

Why a thoroughly updated and revised second edition of this book about theories of disease
distribution, in past and present societal and ecological context? Because the lived realities …

Objectives. We evaluated use of the Index of Concentration at the Extremes (ICE) for public
health monitoring. Methods. We used New York City data centered around 2010 to assess …

In the 1930s, maps created by the federal Home Owners' Loan Corporation (HOLC)
nationalized residential racial segregation via “redlining,” whereby HOLC designated and …