RCSH 207 - Interdisciplinary Approaches to Health Disparities - Faculty Information

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• Grammarly

• Turn-it-in

Readings

• Braveman P. "Health disparities and health equity: concepts and measurement." Annu Rev Public Health 2006;27:167-194

• Starfield, B. "Basic concepts in population health and health care." J Epidemiology Community Health 2001 55:452-454

• Krieger N. "A glossary for social epidemiology." J Epidemiol Community Health. 2001 55(10):693-700

• Adler NE, Stewart J. Health disparities across the lifespan: meaning, methods, and mechanisms. Ann N YAcad Sci 2010 Feb;1186:5-23

Readings

• National Academies Of Sciences, Engineering, And Medicine. 2017. "The state of health disparities in the united states." In: Communities In Action: Pathways To Health Equity. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. Doi: 10.17226/24624.

Film

• Unnatural Causes: In Sickness and in Wealth

Reading

• Link BG, Phelan JC. "Social conditions as fundamental causes of disease." Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 1995. extra:80-94.

• Phelan, J.C., Link, B.G., 2015. "Is racism a fundamental cause of inequalities in health?" Annu. Rev. Sociol. 41, 311e330.

• Jennifer Malat, Sarah Mayorga-Gallo, David R. Williams. "The effects of whiteness on the health of whites in the USA." Social Science & Medicine 199 (2018) 148e156

Readings

• Thayer ZM, Kuzawa CW. "Biological memories of past environments: epigenetic pathways to health disparities." Epigenetics. 2011 Jul;6(7):798-803.

• Gravlee, C. "How race becomes biology: Embodiment of social inequity." Am J Physical Anthropology 2009: 139: 47-57

• Osborne-Majnik A, Fu Q, Lane RH. "Epigenetic mechanisms in fetal origins of health and disease." Clin Obstet Gynecol. 2013 Sep;56(3):622-32. doi:10.1097/GRF.0b013e31829cb99a.

• Waterland RA, Michels KB. "Epigenetic epidemiology of the developmental origins hypothesis." Annu RevNutr. 2007;27:363-88.

• Bell RA. "Health issues facing the state's American Indian populations." N C Med J 2004 Nov-Dec;65(6):353-355.

Film

• Unnatural Causes: Becoming American

Reading

• Mitchell FM. "Reframing Diabetes in American Indian Communities: A Social Determinants of Health Perspective." Health Soc Work. 2012 May;37(2):71-9.

• Abraído-Lanza AF, Echeverría SE, Flórez KR. "Latino Immigrants, Acculturation, and Health: Promising New Directions in Research." Annu Rev Public Health. 2016;37:219-36.

Film

• Unnatural Causes: Place Matters

Readings

• Courtwright AM. "Justice, stigma, and the new epidemiology of health disparities." Bioethics Volume 23 Number 2 2009 pp 90–96

• Hatzenbuehler, M.L., Phelan, J.C., Link, B.G., 2013. "Stigma as a fundamental cause of population health inequalities." Am. J. Public Health 103, 813e821

• Asad L. Asad , Matthew Clair. "Racialized legal status as a social determinant of health." Social Science & Medicine 199 (2018) 19e28

• Williams DR & Collins C. (2001). "Racial Residential Segregation: A fundamental cause of racial disparities in health." Public Health Reports, Volume 16(4):404-416

Readings

• Bowleg L. "The problem with the phrase women and minorities: intersectionality – an important theoretical framework for public health." Am J Public Health. 2012;102:1267-1273

• Castañeda H, Holmes SM, Madrigal DS, Young ME, Beyeler N, Quesada J. "Immigration as a social determinant of health." Annu Rev Public Health. 2015 Mar 18;36:375-92.

• Echeverria SE, Pentakota SR, Abraido-Lanza AF, Janevic T, Gundersen DA, Ramirez SM, Delnevo CD. "Clashing paradigms: an empirical examination of cultural proxies and socioeconomic condition shaping Latino health." Ann Epidemiol 2013

Readings

• Bell RA. "Barriers to Diabetes Prevention and Control Among American Indians." N C Med J 2011;72(5):393-396

• Brawley OW, Berger MZ. "Cancer and disparities in health: perspectives on health statistics and research questions." Cancer 2008 Oct 1;113(7 Suppl):1744-1754.

• Li CI. "Racial and ethnic disparities in breast cancer stage, treatment, and survival in the United States." Ethn Dis 2005 Spring;15(2 Suppl 2):S5-9

HDEV Talk

• “Cognitive Function Trajectories and Enriched Environment at Work among Older Latino Adults” Dr. Elizabeth Munoz

Readings

• Adler NE, Stewart J. "Health disparities across the lifespan: meaning, methods, and mechanisms." Ann N Y Acad Sci 2010 Feb;1186:5-23.

• Hogan VK, Rowley D, Bennett T, Taylor KD. "Life Course, Social Determinants, and Health Inequities: Toward a National Plan for Achieving Health Equity for African American Infants-a Concept Paper." Matern Child Health J 2011 Jul 7.

HDEV Talk

• Dr. Pei-Chia Lan, Distinguished Professor of Sociology, Director of Global Asia Research Center, and Associate Dean of the College of Social Sciences at National Taiwan University. Lan will be presenting on her new book, Raising Global Families: Parenting, Immigration, & Class in Taiwan and the US

Readings

• Perez-Escamilla R. "Acculturation, nutrition, and health disparities in Latinos." Am J Clin Nutr. 2011 May; 93(5): 116S-7S

• Daniel M, O'Dea K, Rowley KG, McDermott R, Kelly S. "Social environmental stress in indigenous populations: potential biopsychosocial mechanisms." Ann N Y Acad Sci 1999;896:420-423.

Readings    

• Geronimus AT, Hicken M, Keene D, Bound J. "'Weathering' and age patterns of allostatic load scores among blacks and whites in the United States." Am J Public Health 2006 May;96(5):826-833Hobel CJ, Goldstein A, Barrett ES. Psychosocial stress and pregnancy outcome. Clin Obstet Gynecol 2008 Jun;51(2):333-348

• Sarah L. Szanton, Jessica M. Gill, Jerilyn K. Allen. "Allostatic Load: A Mechanism of Socioeconomic Health Disparities?" Biol Res Nurs. 2005 July; 7(1): 7–15

• Theresa M. Beckie "A Systematic Review of Allostatic Load, Health, and Health Disparities." Biological Research for Nursing 14(4) 311-346

• Guendelman, S., Broderick A., Mlo H., Gemmill A., & Lindeman D. 2017. "Listening to communities: Mixed-method study of the engagement of disadvantaged mothers and pregnant women with digital health technologies." Journal of Medical Internet Research, 19(7), e240

• Amy Chesser, Anne Burke, Jared Reyes, & Tessa Rohrbert 2016. "Navigating the digital divide: A systematic review of eHealth literacy in underserved populations in the United States." Informatics for Health and Social Care, 41:1,1-19.

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• Campus faculty (guest lecturers)

• Background reading to help brush up

  • Discipline-specific materials and resources for instructors

  • Preparatory Assignments

• Suggested readings

• Homework

• Bring to class items

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• Include handouts, etc.

• Grading Rubrics

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• Elements of the assignment

  • Observation - What caught your attention? Did you notice any patterns? Did something motivate or offend you?

  • Hypothesis - Agree and disagree by always providing explanations, arguments, and examples. Express your opinion and support it with objective and critical information.

  • Conclusion should restate the most important points of the essay.

  • Significance - This is the "so what" moment. Why is it important or why should anyone be concerned about what you have noticed or what you are thinking?

• Purpose of Response Papers

  • Helping the student clarify their thinking about some class’ topics

  • Provide the student the opportunity to practice how to write scientific arguments and writing about social aspects of health

  • Ensuring that students come to class with ideas for discussion and prepared to contribute

  • Help the instructor measure overall understanding among class members

• Grading of Response Papers

  • The total response papers will count for 20% of your grade (i.e., each individual response paper counts for 2% of your grade).

  • An excellent paper will show a highly critical engagement with the coursework. A satisfactory paper will show some critical engagement but may not be as original or well developed as an excellent paper. An unsatisfactory paper will lack an analytical approach. Only excellent papers will receive full points.

  • These papers should not exceed 2 pages each.

A 2‐3-page (double‐spaced) abstract of the proposed paper. The Final proposal abstract should include:

• Background: What is the purpose of the paper? What question(s) are you trying to answer and why? What is the rationale (health importance) for your review of the topic?

• Key terms: Define the terms you will be researching (i.e. the social/behavioral factor of interest, the population group(s) affected, and the health problem/condition)

• Methods: Briefly describe your search strategy (i.e. define the terms, search engines to be used, criteria for selecting articles to be abstracted)

• Preliminary results: How many articles of what type/study design identified, preliminary assessment of the literature, and any necessary steps to refine the current search strategy

Final project should be 10‐12 pages of text maximum (+ references and tables/appendices), typed, double‐spaced, in 12‐point type or larger, with one‐inch margins all around, using formatting style of your discipline. For most questions, it is expected that a minimum at least 10 references will be included in the paper

• Grading the Final Project

  • Definition of the problem (i.e. description of the issue, discussion of why it is a problem) – 10 points

  • Search strategy (i.e. search terms, standard methods) – 15 points

  • Review and synthesis of literature/findings (i.e. systematic evaluation of findings, relevance of literature selected, presentation of results) – 25 points

  • Discussion and analysis of findings (i.e. how well the literature answers the research question, limitations) – 25 points

  • Writing (i.e. clarity, language, organization of paper) – 25 points

  • Use of Endnote software for references – extra 5 points