Rachel's Democracy & Health News, April 6, 2006 (Draft 2.1)

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY ON THE SOCIAL DETERMINANTS OF HEALTH

[My personal favorites are marked with a double asterisk. --P.M.]

By Peter Montague

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**Alperovitz, Gar. America Beyond Capitalism; Reclaiming Our wealth, Our Liberty and Our Democracy. Hoboken, N.J.: John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2005). ISBN 0471667307 On inequalities of wealth in the U.S., see pgs. 204-206.

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Blakely, T.A., B.P. Kennedy and I. Kawachi. "Socioeconomic inequality in voting participation and self-rated health." American Journal of Public Health Vol. 91, No. 1 (2001), pgs. 99-104.

Blakely, T.A., B.P. Kennedy, R. Glass and I. Kawachi, et al. "What is the lag time between income inequality and health status?" Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health Vol. 54, No. 4 (2000), pgs. 318-319.

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Bobak, M., and others. "Poverty and smoking." In P. Jha and F. Chaloupka, editors. Tobacco control in developing countries. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2000, pgs. 41-61.

Bosma, H. and others. "Two alternative job stress models and risk of coronary heart disease." American Journal of Public Health Vol. 88 (1998), pgs. 68-74.

Bosma, H., and others. "Low job control and risk of coronary heart disease in Whitehall II (prospective cohort) study." British Medical Journal Vol. 314 (1997), pgs. 558-565.

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Brunner, E.J. and others. "Adrenocortical, autonomic and inflammatory causes of the metabolic syndrome." Circulation Vol. 106 (2002), pgs. 2659-2665.

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Charter on Transport, Environment and Health. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1999 (EUR/ICP/EHCO 02 02 05/9 Rev.4) (http: //www.euro.who.int/document/peh-ehp/charter_transporte.pdf, accessed on 15 August 2003).

Chiang, T. "Economic transition and changing relation between income inequality and mortality in Taiwan." British Medical Journal Vol. 319, No. 7218 (1999), pgs. 1162-1165.

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**Collins, Chuck, and Felice Yeskel. Economic Apartheid in America; A Primer on Economic Inequality and Insecurity. New York: New Press, 2000; ISBN 1595580158. Revised and corrected data on weakth inequalities available at http://www.ufenet.org/research/ Economic_Apartheid_Data.html#p55

**Collins, Chuck, Betsy Leondar-Wright and Holly Sklar. Shifting Fortunes; The Perils of The Growing Wealth Gap. Boston, Mass.: United for a Fair Economy, 1999. Available from: United for a Fair Economy, 37 Temple Place, Boston, MA 02111. Or here: http://faireconomy.org/ press/archive/1999/shifting_fortunes_report.html

Compa, Lance. Unfair Advantage: Workers' Freedom of Association In The United States Under International Human Rights Standards. New York: Human Rights Watch, August 2000. ISBN 1-56432-251-3.

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Daniels, Norman, and others. Is Inequality Bad For Our Health? Boston: Beacon Press, 2000; ISBN: 0807004472; offers an extensive bibliography.

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Davey Smith, George, and others. "Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality Risk among Men Screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: I. White Men." American Journal of Public Health Vol. 86, No. 4 (April, 1996), pgs. 486-496.

Davey Smith, George, and others. "Socioeconomic Differentials in Mortality Risk among Men Screened for the Multiple Risk Factor Intervention Trial: II. Black Men." American Journal of Public Health Vol. 86, No. 4 (April, 1996), pgs. 497-504.

Davey Smith, George. "Income inequality and mortality: why are they related?" British Medical Journal Vol. 312 (April 20, 1996), pgs. 987-988.

Davies, A. Road transport and health. London: British Medical Association, 1997.

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Diet, nutrition and the prevention of chronic diseases. Report of a Joint WHO/FAO Expert Consultation. Geneva: World Health Organization, 2003 (WHO Technical Report Series, No. 916) http://www.who.int/hpr/ NPH/docs/who_fao_expert_ report.pdf, accessed 14 August 2003.

Diez Roux, Ana V., and others. "Neighborhood of Residence and Incidence of Coronary Heart Disease." New England Journal of Medicine Vol. 345, No. 2 (July 12, 2001), pgs. 99-106.

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Dora C, Phillips M, eds. Transport, environment and health. Copenhagen, WHO Regional Office for Europe, 2000 (WHO Regional Publications, European Series, No. 89) (http: //www.euro.who.int/ document/e72015.pdf, accessed on 15 August 2003).

Drain, P.K., J.S. Smith, J.P. Hughes and others. "Correlates of National HIV Seroprevalence: An ecologic analysis of 122 developing countries." Journal of the Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome Vol. 35, No. 4 (2004), pgs. 407-420.

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**Evans, Robert G., Theodore Marmor, and Morris Barer, editors. Why Are Some People Healthy and Others Not?: The Determinants of Health of Populations. Hawthorne, N.Y. Aldine DeGruyter, 1994. ISBN 0202304892.

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Ferrie, J., and others, editors. Labour market changes and job insecurity: a challenge for social welfare and health promotion. Copenhagen: WHO Regional Office for Europe, 1999 (WHO Regional Publications, European Series, No. 81) http: //www.euro.who.int/ document/e66205.pdf, accessed 15 August 2003.

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Globalization, diets and noncommunicable diseases. Geneva, World Health Organization, 2002 (http://www.who.int/hpr/NPH/docs/global ization. diet.and.ncds.pdf, accessed 15 August 2003).

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**Goode, Erica. "For Good Health, It Helps to be Rich and Important," New York Times June 1, 1999, pgs. D1, D9.

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**Hofrichter, Richard. Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease. New York: Jossey-Bass, 2003. ISBN 0787967335.

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Kahn, H.S., A.V. Patel, E.J. Jacobs, M.E. Calle, B.P. Kennedy, I. Kawachi and others. "Pathways between area-level income inequality and increased mortality in US men." Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences Vol. 896 (1999), pgs. 332-334.

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**Marmot, Michael, and Richard G. Wilkinson, editors. Social Determinants of Health. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 1999; ISBN 0192630695; offers extensive bibliographies.

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Raphael, Dennis, and Sara Farrell. "Income Inequality and Cardiovascular Disease in North-America: Shifting the Paradigm." Harvard Health Policy Review Vol. 3, No. 2 (Fall 2002), pages unknown. Available here: http://tinyurl.com/apazw

**Raphael, Dennis, editor. Social Determinants of Health: Canadian Perspectives. Toronto: Canadian Scholars' Press, 2004. ISBN 1-55130-237-3.

Raphael, Dennis, Susan Anstice, Kim Raine, Kerry R. McGannon, Syed Kamil Rizvl, and Vanessa Yu. "The social determinants of the incidence and management of type 2 diabetes mellitus: are we prepared to rethink our questions and redirect our research activities?" International Journal of Health Care Quality Assurance Vol. 16, No. 3 (2003), pgs. x-xx. Available here: http://tinyurl.com/djaot

Raphael, Dennis. "Beyond medicine and lifestyle: addressing the societal determinants of cardiovascular disease in North America." Leadership in Health Services Vol. 15, No. 4 (2002), pgs. i-v. Available here: http://tinyurl.com/apazw

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