Community Health Equity : A Chicago Reader /: A Chicago Reader. (2019)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Fernando De Maio, Raj C. Shah, MD, John Mazzeo, David A. Ansell, MD.
• Editors: De Maio, Fernando; Shah, MD, Raj C; Mazzeo, John; Ansell, MD, David A
• Contents: Foreword, Linda Rae Murray Acknowledgments Introduction Part I. A Divided City 1. Negro Mortality Rates in Chicago (1927) H. L. Harris Jr. 2. Selections from Mental Disorders in Urban Areas: An Ecological Study of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses (1939) Robert E. L. Faris and H. Warren Dunham 3. Selection from Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945) St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton 4. Selection from Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America (1993) Laurie Kaye Abraham 5. Selections from Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (2012) Robert J. Sampson Part II. The Health Gap 6. Cancer Profiles from Several High-Risk Chicago Communities (1987) Clyde W. Phillips and Loretta F. Prat Lacey 7. Differing Birth Weight among Infants of U.S.-Born Blacks, African-Born Blacks, and U.S.-Born Whites (1997) Richard J. David and James W. Collins Jr. 8. Variations in the Health Conditions of Six Chicago Community Areas: A Case for Local-Level Data (2006) Ami M. Shah, Steven Whitman, and Abigail Silva 9. Demographic Characteristics and Survival with AIDS: Health Disparities in Chicago, 1993–2001 (2009) Girma Woldemichael, Demian Christiansen, Sandra Thomas, and Nanette Benbow 10. The Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Mortality (2011) Steven Whitman, David Ansell, Jennifer Orsi, and Teena Francois 11. Black Women's Awareness of Breast Cancer Disparity and Perceptions of the Causes of Disparity (2013) Karen Kaiser, Kenzie A. Cameron, Gina Curry, and Melinda Stolley 12. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence: Reconsidering the Role of Chronic Stress (2014) Margaret T. Hicken, Hedwig Lee, Jeffrey Morenoff, James S. House, and David R. Williams Part III. Separate and Unequal Health Care 13. What Color Are Your Germs? (1954) Committee to End Discrimination in Chicago Medical Institutions 14. Letter to the President's Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1967) Quentin D. Young 15. Racism in Red Blood Cells: The Chicago 45, 000 and the Board of Health (1972) Edwin Black 16. The Uptown People's Health Center, Chicago, Illinois (1979) John Conroy 17. Transfers to a Public Hospital: A Prospective Study of 467 Patients (1986) Robert L. Schiff, David A. Ansell, James E. Schlosser, Ahamed H. Idris, Ann Morrison, and Steven Whitman 18. Trauma Deserts: Distance from a Trauma Center, Transport Times, and Mortality from Gunshot Wounds in Chicago (2013) Marie Crandall, Douglas Sharp, Erin Unger, David Straus, Karen Brasel, Renee Hsia, and Thomas Esposito Part IV. Communities Matter 19. Social Support in Smoking Cessation among Black Women in Chicago Public Housing (1993) Loretta P. Lacey, Clara Manfredi, George Balch, Richard B. Warnecke, Karen Allen, and Constance Edwards 20. Life Expectancy, Economic Inequality, Homicide, and Reproductive Timing in Chicago Neighbourhoods (1997) Margo Wilson and Martin Daly 21. Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy (1997) Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls 22. Urban Violence and African-American Pregnancy Outcome: An Ecologic Study (1997) James W. Collins Jr. and Richard J. David 23. Social Capital and Neighborhood Mortality Rates in Chicago (2003) Kimberly A. Lochner, Ichiro Kawachi, Robert T. Brennan, and Stephen L. Buka 24. Weathering: Stress and Heart Disease in African American Women Living in Chicago (2006) Jan Warren-Findlow 25. The Protective Effect of Community Factors on Childhood Asthma (2009) Ruchi S. Gupta, Xingyou Zhang, Lisa K. Sharp, John J. Shannon, and Kevin B. Weiss Part V. Taking Action 26. Community Health in a Chicago Slum (1980) John L. McKnight 27. CeaseFire: A Public Health Approach to Reduce Shootings and Killings (2009) Nancy Ritter 28. A Community Effort to Reduce the Black/White Breast Cancer Mortality Disparity in Chicago (2009) David Ansell, Paula Grabler, Steven Whitman, Carol Ferrans, Jacqueline Burgess-Bishop, Linda Rae Murray, Ruta Rao, and Elizabeth Marcus 29. The Fight for a University of Chicago Adult Trauma Center: The Rumble and the Reversal (2016) Claire Bushey and Kristen Schorsch 30. Selections from Healthy Chicago 2.0: Partnering to Improve Health Equity, 2016–2020 (2016) Chicago Department of Public Health Conclusion Suggestions for Further Reading Index.
• Publisher Details: Chicago : University of Chicago Press
• Publication Date: 2019
• Copyright Date: 2019
• Extent: 1 online resource (400 pages)
• Subjects: Medical -- General; Medical -- Public Health; Medical -- History; Social Science -- Sociology -- Urban
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780226614762
• Related ISBNs: 9780226614595; 9780226614625
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