Research on racial differences in Alzheimer disease (AD) dementia has increased in recent
years. Older African American individuals bear a disproportionate burden of AD and …

Longstanding racial/ethnic inequalities in morbidity and mortality persist in the United States.
Although the determinants of health inequalities are complex, social and structural factors …

Reducing health disparities requires an understanding of the mechanisms that generate
disparities. Life course approaches to health disparities leverage theories that explain how …

From public health luminary Nancy Krieger comes a revolutionary way of addressing health
justice and the embodied truths of lived experience. Since the 1700s, fierce debates in …

Socioeconomic differences in behaviour are pervasive and well documented, but their
causes are not yet well understood. Here, we make the case that a cluster of behaviours is …

Purpose: Black women in the United States face poor outcomes across reproductive health
measures—from pregnancy outcomes to gynecologic cancers. Racial health inequities are …

This book explores the socio-political implications of human heredity from the second half of
the nineteenth century to the present postgenomic moment. It addresses three main phases …

This article reviews research examining the effects of adverse early caregiving on
relationships throughout the lifespan. Central attachment constructs are summarized and …

Residents of distressed urban areas suffer early aging-related disease and excess mortality.
Using a community-based participatory research approach in a collaboration between social …

There are persistent socioeconomic disparities in many aspects of child development in
America. Relative to their affluent peers, children of low socioeconomic status (SES) …