U.S. disparities in health: descriptions, causes, and mechanisms.

By Nancy E. Adler, David H. Rehkopf. Annual Review of Public Health, 2008

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Subfields: General Health Professions, Health, Sociology and Political Science

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A Sociocultural Approach to Narcissism: The Case of Modern China (2012, background): “People’s subjective sense of where they stand in relation to others in society is closely tied to a range of important health outcomes (Adler & Matthews, 1994; Adler & Rehkopf, 2008).”
Where Have All the “Workers” Gone? A Critical Analysis of the Unrepresentativeness of Our Samples Relative to the Labor Market in the Industrial–Organizational Psychology Literature (2015, background): “Social and physical settings (including a person’s work, home, and neighborhood) differ by SES and impact individuals’ contact with health-damaging conditions as well as health-protecting resources (Adler & Rehkopf, 2008).”
Well-being is more than happiness and life satisfaction: a multidimensional analysis of 21 countries (2020, background): “Certainly, it is well known that higher income is related to higher subjective well-being and better health and life expectancy [1, 42], so reduced income following unemployment is likely to lead to increased inequalities.”
Weight stigma is stressful. A review of evidence for the Cyclic Obesity/Weight-Based Stigma model. (2014, background): “Not only is there a large literature studying racial stigma as a stressor (see Pascoe & Smart Richman, 2009; Williams & Mohammed, 2009 for reviews), but stress mechanisms dominate much of the literature attempting to explain racial and other health disparities (e.g., Adler & Rehkopf, 2008).”
Psychological Stress in Childhood and Susceptibility to the Chronic Diseases of Aging: Moving Towards a Model of Behavioral and Biological Mechanisms (2011, background): “Second, SES in adulthood is strongly related to morbidity and mortality from the chronic diseases we consider here (Adler & Rehkopf, 2008; Lynch & Smith, 2005).”
Childhood poverty, chronic stress, and adult working memory (2009, background): “Among adults, SES is consistently negatively associated with health across a wide range of diseases (28, 29).”
The pains and pleasures of parenting: when, why, and how is parenthood associated with more or less well-being? (2014, background): “SES, as indicated by income, education, and occupation, is related to many important life outcomes, including both well-being and health (Adler & Rehkopf, 2008; Diener & Biswas-Diener, 2002).”