References

Various Publications
Institute of Medicine Reports
Cancer Related References
Transdisciplinary Science References
Intervention Research
General References

Various Publications
CPHHD midcourse report, Cells To Society: Overcoming Health Disparities

Examining the Health Disparities Research Plan of the NIH

Kaiser Issue Brief: Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Back to Top

Institute of Medicine Reports
Adler NE, Page AEK (Eds). (2008) Cancer Care for the Whole Patient: Meeting Psychosocial Health Needs. Washington, DC: National Academy Press, Institute of Medicine.

Anderson N, Bulatao R, Cohen B (Eds.), (2004) Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press.

Finch CE, Vaupel JW, Kinsella K (Eds). (2001) Cells and Surveys: Should Biological Measures Be Included in Social Science Research? Committee on Population, National Research Council, Washington, DC: National Academy Press.

Hanna K, Coussens C. (Eds) (2001) Rebuilding the Unity of Health and the Environment: A New Vision of Environmental Health for the 21st Century. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.

Hernandez LM, Blazer DG (Eds). (2006) Genes, Behavior, and the Social Environment: Moving Beyond the Nature/Nurture Debate. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.

Institute of Medicine (2001). Committee on Health and Behavior: Research, Practice, and Policy Board on Neuroscience and Behavioral Health. Health and Behavior: The Interplay of Biological, Behavioral, and Societal Influences. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.

Martin L, Soldo B (Eds.), (1997) Racial and Ethnic Differences in the Health of Older Americans. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Acadamies Press.

Singer BH, Ryff CD (Eds). (2001) New Horizons in Health: An Integrative Approach. Committee on Future Directions for Behavior and Social Sciences Research at the National Institutes of Health. National Research Council. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.

Smedley BD, Stith AY, Nelson AR (Editors) (2003) Committee on Understanding and Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Healthcare. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academies Press.

Smedley BD, Syme SL (Eds). (2000) Promoting Health: Intervention Strategies from Social and Behavioral Research. Committee on Capitalizing on Social Science and Behavioral Research to Improve the Public's Health. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.

Weinstein M, Vaupel JW, Wachter KW (Eds) (2007) Biosocial Surveys. Committee on Advances in Collecting and Utilizing Biological Indicators and Genetic Information in Social Science Surveys. Washington, DC: Institute of Medicine, National Academy Press.

Back to Top

Cancer Related References
American Cancer Society. (2008). Cancer Facts and Figures, 2006. Atlanta, GA: American Cancer Society. http://www.cancer.org/downloads/STT/2008CAFFfinalsecured.pdf.

An Update on Cancer in American Indians and Alaska Natives, 1999-2004. Cancer 2008; 113(S5): 1113-1273. http://www3.interscience.wiley.com/journal/121383359/issue.

Antoni MH, Lutgendorf SK, Cole SW, Dhabhar FS, Sephton SE, McDonald PG, Stefanek M, Sood AK. (2006) The influence of bio-behavioural factors on tumour biology: pathways and mechanisms. Nat Rev Cancer. Mar;6(3):240-8. Review.

Cancer Center Directors Working Group. Accelerating Successes against Cancer. Recommendations from the NCI-Designated Cancer Center Directors. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, 2006. NIH Pub. No. 06-6080. http://cancercenters.cancer.gov/documents/Accelerating_Successes
_Against_Cancer_Report.pdf.

Cancer Trends Progress Report - 2007 Update, National Cancer Institute, NIH, DHHS, Bethesda, MD, December 2007, http://progressreport.cancer.gov/index.asp.

Harper S, Lynch J. Methods for Measuring Cancer Disparities: Using Data Relevant to Healthy People 2010 Cancer-Related Objectives. NCI Cancer Surveillance Monograph Series, Number 6. Bethesda, MD: National Cancer Institute, 2005. NIH Publication No. 05-5777. http://surveillance.cancer.gov/disparities/.

Schnoll RA, Johnson TA, Lerman C. (2007) Genetics and smoking behavior. Curr Psychiatry Rep. Oct;9(5):349-57. Review.

Spiegel D, Sephton SE. (2001) Psychoneuroimmune and endocrine pathways in cancer: effects of stress and support. Semin Clin Neuropsychiatry. Oct;6(4):252-65. Review.

Szyf M. (2007) The dynamic epigenome and its implications in toxicology. Toxicol Sci. 2007 Nov;100(1):7-23. Epub Aug 3. Review.

Taylor SE, RL Repetti, T Seeman. (1997) Health psychology: What is an unhealthy environment and how does it get under the skin? Annu Rev Psychol. 48:411-47.

The Nation's Investment in Cancer Research: A Plan and Budget Proposal for Fiscal Year 2009. http://plan.cancer.gov/ Accessed February 20, 2008.

Back to Top

Transdisciplinary Science References
Abrams, D. B. (2006). Applying transdisciplinary research strategies to understanding and eliminating health disparities. Health Educ Behav, 33(4), 515-531.

The Science of Team Science - Assessing the Value of Transdisciplinary Research American Journal of Preventive Medicine (AJPM) Supplement on the "Science of Team Science," published August 2008 (Volume 35, issue 2). http://cancercontrol.cancer.gov/brp/scienceteam/ajpm.html.

Warnecke RB, Oh A, Breen N, Gehlert S, Paskett E, Tucker KL, Lurie N, Rebbeck T, Goodwin J, Flack J, Srinivasan S, Kerner J, Heurtin-Roberts S, Abeles R, Tyson FL, Patmios G, Hiatt RA. (2008). Approaching Health Disparities from a Population Perspective: The NIH Centers for Population Health and Health Disparities. Am J Public Health. Sep;98(9):1608-15. Epub 2008 Jul 16.

Back to Top

Intervention Research

Cooper LA Hill MN Powe NR. (2002) Designing and evaluating interventions to eliminate racial and ethnic disparities in health care. J Gen Intern Med.17:477-86.

Rust G Cooper LA (2007). How can practice-based research contribute to the elimination of health disparities? J Am Board Fam Med, 20:105-14.

Davis AM, Vinci LM, Okwuosa TM, Chase AR and Huang ES (2007). Cardiovascular Health Disparities: A Systematic Review of Health Care Interventions. Med Care Res Rev; 64(5 Suppl): 29S-100S.

Jenkins C, McNary S, Carlson BA, King MG et al. (2004) Reducing Disparities for African Americans with Diabetes: Progress Made by the REACH2010 Charleston and Georgetown Diabetes Coalition. Public Health Reports, 119; 322-330.

Lurie N and Dubowitz T. (2007) Health Disparities and Access to Health. JAMA; 297, 1118-1121.

Back to Top

General References
Office of Behavioral and Social Sciences Research. Toward Higher Levels of Analysis: Progress and Promise in Research on Social and Cultural Dimensions of Health. Bethesda, MD: National Institutes of Health, 2007. NIH Pub. No. 01-5020.. http://obssr.od.nih.gov/Conf_Wkshp/higherlevel/conference.html. Accessed February 20, 2008.

Ezzati M, Friedman AB Kulkarni SC and Murray CJ (2008). The reversal of fortunes: Trends in county mortality and cross-county mortality disparities in the United States. PLoS Medicine, 2008, 5, 1-11.

Murray CJ, Kulkarni, SC, Michaud C et al. (2006) Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States. PloS Medicine, 3, 1513-1524.

Rosenfield P. (1992) The potential of transdisciplinary research for sustaining and extending linkages between the health and social sciences. Soc Sci Med; 35(11):1343-57.

Sankar P, Cho MK, Condit CM, Hunt LM, Koenig B, Marshall P, Lee SS, Spicer P. (2004). Genetic Research and Health Disparities. JAMA. 2004 Jun 23;291(24):2985-9.

Schulz AJ, Mullings L (Eds). (2006) Gender, Race, Class and Health: Intersectional Approaches. San Francisco, California.

Voelker R. (2008) Decades of work to reduce disparities in health care produce limited success. JAMA.;299;1411-13.

Back to Top