...Peter Kent-Stoll Hatch Anthony Ryan . Blood Sugar: Racial Pharmacology and Food Justice in Black America . Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press , 2016 . 184 pp. $87.50 cloth, $25.00 paper. Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017 The concept of metabolic...

...Figure 4 Public Support for State's Medicaid Expansion by Racial Group Figure 4. Public Support for State's Medicaid Expansion by Racial Group ...

... essential for American democracy, but American institutions were not designed to handle its current form—ideologically pure, racially sorted, closely matched parties playing by “Gingrich rules” before a partisan media. The new partisanship injects three far-reaching changes into national health policy: an...

...David Barton Smith No published measures of racial integration in health facilities in the United States exist. This article reviews the problems with possible sources of data. It then derives estimates of the degree of integration in nursing homes and hospitals from the 1985 National Nursing Home...

...Sarah E. Gollust; Paula M. Lantz; Peter A. Ubel Despite the salience of health disparities in media and policy discourse, little previous research has investigated if imagery associating an illness with a certain racial group influences public perceptions. This study evaluated the influence of the...

... expenses. Finally, we find that health care policy preferences, already tinged with racial attitudes in 2008, became increasingly so by 2010. © 2011 by Duke University Press 2011 References ABC News/Washington Post . 2008 . Poll , January 30 – February 1 . iPOLL Databank, Roper Center for...

...Jacqueline Stevens Conventional wisdom holds that race is socially constructed and not based on genetic differences. Cutting-edge genetic research threatens this view and hence also endangers the pursuit of racial equality and useful public health research. The most recent incarnation of racial...

..., they are the only providers for which current reporting requirements make it possible to fully assess racial disparities in use and quality of care. We find that African Americans' use of nursing homes in 2000 in the United States was 14 percent higher than Caucasians' use. The largest relative African...

...Jason Schnittker; Ke Liang Although some scholars suggest that racial/ethnic concordance between physicians and patients will do much to eliminate disparities in medical care, the evidence for concordance effects is mixed. Using nationally representative data with an oversample of blacks and...

...David R. Williams; Valerie Purdie-Vaughns Abstract Large racial/ethnic and socioeconomic status (SES) differences in health persist in the United States. Eliminating these health disparities is a public health challenge of our time. This article addresses what is needed for social and behavioral...

...Rashawn Ray; Abigail A. Sewell; Keon L. Gilbert; Jennifer D. Roberts Abstract Blacks and Latinos are less likely than whites to access health insurance and utilize health care. One way to overcome some of these racial barriers to health equity may be through advances in technology that allow people...

...Deborah Stone Although racial and ethnic disparities in health have been on the federal government's agenda since 1985, no policy reforms have significantly reduced disparities. The question arises whether states can effectively address this issue without waiting for solutions from the national...

...Brian K. Gibbs; Laurie Nsiah-Jefferson; Matthew D. McHugh; Amal N. Trivedi; Deborah Prothrow-Stith Eliminating racial and ethnic disparities in health status and health care, a major focus of Healthy People 2010 , remains on the national agenda and among the priorities for the administration of...

...David Rosner Robert N. Proctor. Racial Hygiene: Medicine under the Nazis. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1988. 496 pp. $14.95 paper. Copyright © 1991 by Duke University Press 1991 Reference Maier , Charles S. 1988 . The Unmasterable Past: History, Holocaust, and...

...David Barton Smith Large racial inequities in health care use continue to be reported, raising concerns about discrimination. Historically, the health system, with its professionally dominated, autonomous, voluntary organizational structure, has presented special challenges to civil rights efforts...

...Mark A. Hall Abstract United States' courts have played a limited, yet key, role in shaping health equity in three areas of law: racial discrimination, disability discrimination, and constitutional rights. Executive and administrative action has been much more instrumental than judicial decisions...

... costs of medical treatment. Drawing on data from three original vignette experiments embedded in a nationally representative survey of American adults, we find that respondents are reluctant to blame or deny societal support in response to explicit cues about racial attributes — but equally explicit...