Resources for Health Equity and Justice

The bibliography below offers additional reading on this year’s Campus Community Book Project topic—health equity and justice—to supplement the book selection, Weathering:  The Extraordinary Stress of Ordinary Life in an Unjust Society by Arline Geronimus.  The list includes books, scholarly articles, and other resources divided by topic.

General

• Barr, D. A. (2014). Health disparities in the United States:  social class, race, ethnicity, and health. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Brill, S. (2015). America’s bitter pill:  money, politics, backroom deals, and the fight to fix our broken healthcare system. Random House.
• Burke Harris, N. (2018). The deepest well:  healing the long-term effects of childhood adversity. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.
• Chandler, C. E., Williams, C. R., & Turner, M. W. (2022). Training public health students in racial justice and health equity:  A Systematic Review. Public Health Reports, 137(2), 373–385.
• Dawes, D. (2020). The political determinants of health. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Einav, L., & Finkelstein, A. (2023). We’ve got you covered:  Rebooting American health care. Portfolio/Penguin.
• Galea, S. (2022). The contagion next time. Oxford University Press.
• Geronimus, A. (2024). Weathering:  The extraordinary stress of ordinary life in an unjust society. Back Bay Books.
• Hersey, T. (2022). Rest is resistance:  A manifesto. Little, Brown Spark.
• Littler, K., Sheather, J., Singh, J., & Wright, K. (2023). Why climate change health policy needs ethics to achieve health equity and climate justice–a call to action. BMJ, 381, 1368.
• McKay, F. H., & Taket, A. R. (2020). Health equity, social justice and human rights. Routledge.
• Miller, W. J. (2023). Equity, equality, & justice for all:  Born to be an advocate. Pegasus Books.
• Nuila, R. (2023). The people’s hospital:  Hope and peril in American medicine. Scribner.
• Payne, K. (2017). The broken ladder:  How inequality affects the way we think, live and die. Viking.
• Reid, T. R. (2010). The healing of America:  a global quest for better, cheaper, and fairer health care. Penguin Books.
• Singh, P. (2016). Dying and living in the neighborhood:  a street-level view of America’s healthcare promise. Johns Hopkins University Press.
• Smith, G. S., & Thorpe, R. J. (2020). Gentrification:  A priority for environmental justice and health. Ethnicity & Disease, 509–512.
• Sole-Smith, V. (2023). Fat talk:  Parenting in the age of diet culture. Henry Holt and Company.
• Sweet, V. (2012). God’s hotel:  A doctor, a hospital, and a pilgrimage to the heart of medicine. Riverhead Books.
• Tobin Tyler, E., & Teitelbaum, J. B. (2019). Essentials of health justice:  a primer. Jones & Bartlett.
• Wright, G., Hubbard, L., & Darity Jr., W. (Eds.). (2022). The pandemic divide:  How COVID increased inequality in America. Duke University Press.

Race

• Allen, A. L. (2022). Privacy, health, and race equity in the Digital Age. American Journal of Bioethics, 22(7), 60–63.
• Cruz, T. M., & Smith, S. A. (2021). Health equity beyond data:  Health care worker perceptions of race, ethnicity, and language data collection in electronic health records. Medical Care, 59(5), 379–385.
• Dawes, D., Holden, K., & Williams, D. R. (Eds.). (2023). Health equity:  African Americans and public health. American Publish Association.
• Ford, C. L., & Airhihenbuwa, C. O. (2010). Critical race theory, race equity, and public health:  Toward antiracism praxis. American Journal of Public Health, 100(S1), S30–S35.
• Kindig, D. (2017). Population health equity:  Rate and burden, race and class. JAMA: The Journal of the American Medical Association, 317(5), 467–468.
• Marmot, M. (2015). The health gap:  Improving health in an unequal world. Bloomsbury Press.
• Marya, R., & Patel, R. (2022). Inflamed:  deep medicine and the anatomy of injustice. Picador.
• Mate, G., & Mate, D. (2022). The myth of normal:  trauma, illness & healing in a toxic culture. Avery.
• Matthew, D. B. (2015). Just Medicine:  A cure for racial inequality in American health care. NYU Press.
• Pollock, A. (2021). Sickening:  Anti-Black racism and health disparities in the United States. University of Minnesota Press.
• Williams, M. T., Rosen, D. C., & Kanter, J. (Eds.). (2019). Eliminating race-based mental health disparities:  promoting equity and culturally responsive care across settings. Context Press.

Gender

• Bott, N. T., Sheckter, C. C., & Milstein, A. S. (2017). Dementia care, women’s health, and gender equity:  The value of well-timed caregiver support. JAMA Neurology, 74(4), 757–758.
• Dusenbery, M. (2018). Doing harm:  the truth about how bad medicine and lazy science leave women dismissed, misdiagnosed, and sick. HarperOne.
• Hossain, A. (2021). The pain gap:  How sexism and racism in healthcare kill women. Tiller Press.
• Jackson, G. (2021). Pain and prejudice:  How the medical system ignores women—And what we can do about it. Greystone Books.
• Sen, G., & Ostlin, P. (2009). Gender equity in health:  The shifting frontiers of evidence and action. Routledge.
• Sinha, C., & Schryer-Roy, A.-M. (2018). Digital health, gender and health equity:  Invisible imperatives. Journal of Public Health, 40.
• Smalley, K. B., Warren, J. C., & Barefoot, K. N. (Eds.). (2018). LGBT health:  meeting the needs of gender and sexual minorities. Springer Publishing Company.

Poverty and Long-term Health Outcomes

• Desmond, M. (2016). Evicted:  poverty and profit in the American city. Crown Publishers.
• Desmond, M., & Kimbro, R. T. (2015). Eviction’s fallout: housing, hardship, and health. Social Forces, 94(1), 295–324. https://doi.org/10.1093/sf/sov044
• Gold, A. E. (2016). No home for justice: how eviction perpetuates health inequity among low-income and minority tenants. Georgetown Journal on Poverty Law & Policy, 24(1), 59.
• Hazekamp, C., Yousuf, S., Day, K., Daly, M. K., & Sheehan, K. (2020). Eviction and pediatric health outcomes in Chicago. Journal of Community Health, 45(5), 891–899. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10900-020-00806-y
• Hedman, K. (2019). Strengths and support of older people affected by precarity in South Louisiana. International Journal of Older People Nursing, 14(2), e12232. https://doi.org/10.1111/opn.12232
• Himmelstein, G., & Desmond, M. (2021, April 1). Eviction and Health:  A Vicious Cycle Exacerbated by the Pandemic. Health Affairs. https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/briefs/eviction-and-health-vicious-cycle-exacerbated-pandemic
• Hooten, N. N., Pacheco, N. L., Smith, J. T., & Evans, M. K. (2022). The accelerated aging phenotype: The role of race and social determinants of health on aging. Aging Research Reviews, 73.
• Khadka, A., Fink, G., Gromis, A., & McConnell, M. (2020). In utero exposure to threat of evictions and preterm birth: Evidence from the United States. Health Services Research, 55(Supplement2), 823–832.
• Krieger, N., & Testa, C. (2024). Epigenetic Aging and Racialized, Economic, and Environmental Injustice NIMHD Social Epigenomics Program. JAMA Network Open, 7(7).
• Leifheit, K. M., Schwartz, G. L., Pollack, C. E., Black, M. M., Edin, K. J., Althoff, K. N., & Jennings, J. M. (2020). Eviction in early childhood and neighborhood poverty, food security, and obesity in later childhood and adolescence: Evidence from a longitudinal birth cohort. SSM – Population Health, 11, 100575. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ssmph.2020.100575
• Rao, S., Essien, U. R., Powell-Wiley, T. M., Maddineni, B., Das, S. R., Halm, E. A., Pandey, A., & Sumarsono, A. (2022). Association of US County-Level Eviction Rates and All-Cause Mortality. Journal of General Internal Medicine. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11606-022-07892-9