Date: Wed, 30 Apr 1997 07:30:32 -0400
From: Nancy Krieger <nkrieger@HSPH.HARVARD.EDU> Reply-To: Social Class in Contemporary Societies

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Subject: Re: SOCIAL-CLASS Digest - 28 Apr 1997 to 29 Apr 1997

Some references that may be of use re relationships between class, race/ethnicity, racism, and health:

Adler NE, Boyce T, Chesney MA, Cohen S, Folkman S, et al. Socioeconomic status and health: the challenge of the gradient. Am J Psychol 1994; 49:15-24.

Duncan GJ. 1996. Income dynamics and health. Int J Health Serv 1996; 26:419-44.

Fox J ed. Health Inequalities in European Countries. Aldershot, UK: Gower, 1989.

Krieger N. Women and social class: a methodological study comparing individual, household, and census measures as predictors of black/white differences in reproductive history. J Epidemiol Comm Health 1991; 45:35-42.

Krieger N, Rowley DL, Herman AA, Avery B, Phillips MT. Racism, sexism, and social class: implications for studies of health, disease, and well-being. Am J Prev Med 1993; 9(suppl 2):82-122.

Krieger N, Fee E. Measuring social inequalities in health in the United States: an historical review, 1900-1950. Int J Health Serv 1996; 26:391-418.

Krieger N, Williams D, Moss N. Measuring social class in US public health research: concepts, methodologies and guidelines. Annu Rev Public Health 1997 (in press)

LaVeist TA. Segregation, poverty, and empowerment: health consequences for African Americans. Milbank Q 1993; 71:41-64.

Liberatos P, Link BG, Kelsey JL. The measurement of social class in epidemiology. Epidemiol Rev 1988; 10:87-121.

Marmot M, Bobak M, Smith GD. Explanations for social inequalities in health. In: Amick B III, Levine S, Tarlov AR, Walsh D (eds). Society & Health. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995; 172-210.

Navarro V. Race or class versus race and class: mortality differentials in the United States. Lancet 1990; ii:1238-1240.

Smaje C. The ethnic patterning of health: new directions for theory and research. Social Health & Illness 1996; 18:139-171.

Smith GD. Income inequality and mortality: why are they related? Br Med J 1996; 312:987-988.

Szreter SRS. The genesis of the Registrar General's social classification of occupations. Br J Sociol 1984; 35:522-46.

Townsend P, Davidson N, Whitehead M. Inequalities in Health: The Black Report and The Health Divide. London: Penguin Books, 1990.

Williams DR, Collins C. US socioeconomic and racial differences in health: patterns and explanations. Annu Rev Sociol 1995; 21:349-86.