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Social Determinants of Health
The COVID-19 pandemic brought the issue of healthcare disparities and related inequalities to the forefront. This display features books on systemic racism, socioeconomic discrimination, access to education, the physical environment, social support, and health equity in contemporary and historical perspectives. The titles examine these problems and offer potential solutions to help improve outcomes for underserved patients and communities.
In Print
Applied Demography and Public Health in the 21st Century by WHSC Library WA 950 A77 2017 and online
Bad Blood: The Tuskegee Syphilis Experiment by WHSC Library Tye Collection WC 160 J6 1981 T
Disease and Class: Tuberculosis and the shaping of modern North American society by WHSC Library Tye Collection WF 11 F4 1995 T and online
Environmental Policy and Public Health by WHSC Library WA 380 J64 2018
Health Care Politics, Policy, and Services: A social justice analysis by WHSC Library W 84 AA1 A4795 2018
Health Disparities in the United States: Social class, race, ethnicity, and the social determinants of health by WHSC Library WA 300 AA1 B37 2019
How Cancer Crossed the Color Line by WHSC Library QZ 11 AA1 W215H 2011, Woodruff RC276 .W35 2011 and online
Human Exposure to Pollutants Via Dermal Absorption and Inhalation by WHSC Library QP82.2 .P6 H86 2010
The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by WHSC Library WO 690 S55 2010, Woodruff RC265.6 .L24 S55 2011 also online, and as audiobook and DVD
Mama Might Be Better off Dead: The failure of health care in urban America by WHSC Library Tye Collection W 84 A23 1993 T
Poverty and the Myths of Health Care Reform by WHSC Library WA 540 .AA1 C738 2016
Public Health and the Risk Factor: A history of an uneven medical revolution by WHSC Library RA 427.3 .R68 2003 and online
Race and Medicine in Nineteenth-and Early-Twentieth-Century America by WHSC Library Tye Collection WA 11 AA1 S28 2007 T, Woodruff RA448.5 .N4 S28 2007 and online
Religion As a Social Determinant of Public Health by WHSC Library WB 880 R35 2014, Woodruff BL65 .M4 R45 2014
Slavery, Disease, and Suffering in the Southern Lowcountry by WHSC Library Tye Collection WA 300 M123 2011 and Woodruff RA418.3 .U6 M35 2011
Urban Planning and Public Health: A critical partnership by WHSC Library WA 380 G74 2017 and Woodruff RA566.7 .G74 2017
eBooks
Black and Blue : The origins and consequences of medical racism by eBook (and in print at Woodruff RA563.M56 H63 2012)
Inequality and African-American Health: How racial disparities create sickness by eBook (and in print at Woodruff RA448.5 .N4 H55 2016)
Just Medicine: A cure for racial inequality in American health care by eBook (and in print at Woodruff RA448.4 .M38 2015)
Pathogenic Policing: Immigration enforcement and health in the U.S. South by eBook (and in print at Woodruff RA448.5.I44 K55 2019)
The Racial Divide in American Medicine: Black physicians and the struggle for justice in health care by eBook (and in print at Woodruff RA563.M56 R334 2018)
Reproductive Injustice: Racism, pregnancy, and premature birth by eBook (and in print at Woodruff RA564.86 .D38 2019 and Oxford 362.1082 D2615R)
Subprime Health: Debt and race in U.S. medicine by eBook (and in print at Woodruff RA448.5.N4 S83 2017)
Unequal Cities: Structural racism and the death gap in America's largest cities by eBook (and in print at Woodruff RA418 .U54 2021)
