Recommended Reading and Viewing
Books:
Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care by the Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care
The Spirit Catches You and You Fall Down: A Hmong Child, Her American Doctors, and the Collision of Two Cultures by Anne Fadiman
Promoting Cultural Diversity: Strategies for Health Care Professionals by Kathryn Hopkins Kavanagh and Patricia H. Kennedy
Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the U.S. by Thomas LaVeist
The Working Poor: Invisible in America by David Shipler
A People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn
Media/Films:
RACE - The Power of an Illusion (PBS; 2003)
SiCKO (2007)
The Color of Fear (1994)
Unnatural Causes (PBS, 2008)
Articles:
"Beyond Equal Care: How Health Systems can Impact Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities" by Kate Meyers
"Confronting the Uncomfortable: Health Plans and Health Disparities: A Moral Dilemma in a Morally Driven Industry" by Winston F. Wong
"Cultural Humility Versus Cultural Competence: A Critical Distinction in Defining Physician Training Outcomes in Multicultural Education" by Melanie Tervalon and Jann Murray-Garcia
"Culture, Illness, and Care: Clinical Lessons from Anthropologic and Cross-Cultural Research" by Arthur Klienman, Leon Eisenberg, and Byron Good
"Economic Equality is Best Medicine" by Stephen Bezruchka
"Insurgent Multiculturalism: Rethinking How and Why we Teach Culture in Medical Education" by Delese Wear
"Learning to Value Ethnic Diversity-What, Why and How?" by Joe Kai, John Spencer, and Paramjit Gill
"Levels of Racism: A Theoretical Framework and a Gardener's Tale" by Camara Phyllis Jones
"Negotiating Cross-Cultural Issues at the End of Life: "You Got to go Where he Lives" by Marjorie Kagawa-Singer and Leslie J. Blackhall
"Social Sources of Racial Disparities in Health" by David R. Williams and Pamela Braboy Jackson
"The Ethics of Cultural Competence" by Michael Paasche-Orlow
"Understanding and Eliminating Racial Inequities in Women's Health in the United States: The Role of the Weathering Conceptual Framework" by Arline T. Geronimus
Faculty Research:
Catalano, R., Bruckner, T., Gould, J., Eskenazi, B., and Anderson, B. (2005). Sex ratios in California following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Human Reproduction, 20:1221-1227.
Guendelman S, Fernald L, Neufeld L, Fuentes-Afflick E. Maternal Perceptions of Early Childhood Ideal Body Weight Differ among Mexican-Origin Mothers Residing in Mexico Compared to California. Journal of the American Dietetic Association, 2010; 110(2):222-229.
Herd, D. Changes in the Prevalence of Alcohol Use in Rap Song Lyrics: 1979-1997, Addiction, 2005, 9:1258-1269.
Minkler, M, Breckwich Vásquez, V, Tajik, M, Petersen, D (in press) Promoting Environmental Justice through Community Based Participatory Research: Results of a Cross Site Case Study Analysis Health Education and Behavior
Morello-Frosch R and Lopez, R: The Riskscape and the Colorline: Examining the Role of Segregation in Environmental Health Disparities, Environmental Research, 2006 102(2): 181-196.
Mujahid MS, Diez Roux AV, Shen MW, Gowda D, Sanchez B, Shea S, Jacobs DR, Jackson SA. Relationship between Neighborhood Environments and Obesity in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (MESA). American Journal of Epidemiology 2008. 167(11):1349-1357.
Nuru-Jeter A , Parker-Dominguez TP, Powell Hammond WP, Leu J, Skaff M, Egerter S, Jones CP, Braveman P. It's the skin you're in: African American women talk about their experiences of racism. An exploratory study to develop measures of racism for birth outcome studies. Matern Child Health J. 2009. 13(1):29-39.
Ozer, E.J., Fernald, L.C., & Roberts, S. Internalizing Symptoms Among Rural Mexican Adolescents: A Social Ecological Analysis. In press, Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, 2008;43(12):1014-1023.
Ozer, E.J., Wolf, J.P., & Kong, C. Experiences of School Connection among Ethnically-Diverse Urban Adolescents. Journal of Adolescent Research, 2008;23(4):438-470.
Satariano WA, MacLeod KE, Cohn TE, Ragland DR. Problems with vision associated with limitations or avoidance of driving in older populations. Journals of Gerontology: Social Sciences, 2004; 59(5): S281-286.
Smith KR, K. Balakrishnan, Mitigating Climate, Meeting MDGs, and Moderating Chronic Disease: The Health Co-benefits Landscape, Commonwealth Health Ministers' Update 2009, Commonwealth Secretariat, London, pp. 59-65, 2009.
Snowden LR, Catalano RF, Shumway M. Emergency mental health treatment and African American populations (2009). Psychiatric Services 60(12):1664-1671.