Social isolation and discrimination are growing public health concerns associated with poor
physical and mental health. They are risk factors for increased morbidity and mortality and …

Observed variation between populations in fertility-timing distributions has been thought to
contribute to infant mortality differentials. This hypothesis is based, in part, on the belief that …

Background Previous studies in medical imaging have shown disparate abilities of artificial
intelligence (AI) to detect a person's race, yet there is no known correlation for race on …

2 Introduction synthesis. After the microanalytic turn of my recent books, the present volume
also returns to meso-and macroanalytic levels of analysis. Grounds for Difference emerged …

This article examines the extent to which racial differences in socio-economic status (SES),
social class and acute and chronic indicators of perceived discrimination, as well as general …

The author presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels:
institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising …

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 …

Abstract 'Multiple causation'is the canon of contemporary epidemiology, and its metaphor
and model is the 'web of causation.'First articulated in a 1960 US epidemiology textbook, the …

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

The chapter addresses the stigma associated with mental illnesses. It begins by
summarizing the development of thinking about labeling and stigma over the past half …