Community Health Equity

Community Health Equity

A Chicago Reader

Edited by: Fernando De Maio, MD Raj C. Shah, John Mazzeo and MD David A. Ansell

University of Chicago Press | 2019

DOI: https://doi.org/10.7208/9780226614762

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About this book

Perhaps more than any other American city, Chicago has been a center for the study of both urban history and economic inequity. Community Health Equity assembles a century of research to show the range of effects that Chicago’s structural socioeconomic inequalities have had on patients and medical facilities alike. The work collected here makes clear that when a city is sharply divided by power, wealth, and race, the citizens who most need high-quality health care and social services have the greatest difficulty accessing them. Achieving good health is not simply a matter of making the right choices as an individual, the research demonstrates: it’s the product of large-scale political and economic forces. Understanding these forces, and what we can do to correct them, should be critical not only to doctors but to sociologists and students of the urban environment—and no city offers more inspiring examples for action to overcome social injustice in health than Chicago.

Author information

Fernando De Maio is associate professor of sociology at DePaul University and codirector of the Center for Community Health Equity. Raj C. Shah,MD,is associate professor in the Department of Family Medicine and the Rush Alzheimer’s Disease Center atRush University Medical Center and also serves as codirector of the Center for Community Health Equity.John Mazzeo is associate professor of anthropology and director of the Master of Public Health program at DePaul University. David A. Ansell, MD, is professor of internal medicine at Rush University Medical Center, as well as the author of The Death Gap, also published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

“Community Health Equity is an exciting and important opportunity to present the whole story of Chicago’s long and deeply rooted history of structural inequities. The book exposes a city divided by power and racism, which impacts access to health care, causing gaps in public health outcomes throughout the last hundred years. The editors detail how these inequities are duly caused and reinforced by structural and social determinants of health; they also provide ways to take action to address them. The target audience for Community Health Equity is wide and broad—after all, learning from the past can help shape and influence the future.”

— Christina R. Welter, University of Illinois at Chicago

“In healthcare, we are taught that the right treatment comes from the right diagnosis. Paradoxically our profession almost always gets the diagnosis for health inequity wrong, and mistreats accordingly. Health workers who read this book will interrupt that cycle, recognizing that they cannot continue to support the current social arrangement if we dream of achieving health equity this generation.”

— Michelle Morse, founding codirector of EqualHealth

“An invaluable resource for both researchers and community practitioners, both inside and outside of Chicago. . . . The editors do an outstanding job of drawing linkages across disciplines, methodological approaches, health conditions, populations, and communities. While the book provides no simple map to solutions, the editors provide a selection of works and thoughtfully pose questions that will challenge a broad swath of readers to reflect, engage, and hopefully use this book as a tool toward health equity and justice.”

— Progress in Community Health Partnerships

Frontmatter Free access PDF PDF	i
Contents Free access PDF PDF	v
Foreword Free access PDF PDF	ix
Acknowledgments Free access PDF PDF	xiii
Introduction Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	1
Part I. A Divided City
Chapter One. Negro Mortality Rates in Chicago H. L. Harris Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	19
Chapter Two. Selections from Mental Disorders in Urban Areas: An Ecological Study of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses Robert E. L. Faris and H. Warren Dunham Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	34
Chapter Three. Selection from Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	56
Chapter Four. Selection from Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America Laurie Kaye Abraham Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	66
Chapter Five. Selections from Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect Robert J. Sampson Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	78
Part II. The Health Gap
Chapter Six. Cancer Profi les from Several High- Risk Chicago Communities Clyde W. Phillips and Loretta F. Prat Lacey Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	105
Chapter Seven. Differing Birth Weight among Infants of U.S.- Born Blacks, African- Born Blacks, and U.S.- Born Whites Richard J. David and James W. Collins Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	111
Chapter Eight. Variations in the Health Conditions of Six Chicago Community Areas Ami M Shah, Steven Whitman and Abigail Silva Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	122
Chapter Nine. Demographic Characteristics and Survival with AIDS Demian Christiansen, Girma Woldemichael, Sandra Thomas and Nanette Benbow Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	135
Chapter Ten. The Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Mortality Steven Whitman, David Ansell, Jennifer Orsi and Teena Francois Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	146
Chapter Eleven. Black Women’s Awareness of Breast Cancer Disparity and Perceptions of the Causes of Disparity Karen Kaiser, Kenzie A. Cameron, Gina Curry and Melinda Stolley Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	163
Chapter Twelve. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence Margaret T. Hicken, Hedwig Lee, Jeffrey Morenoff, James S. House and David R. Williams Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	173
Part III. Separate and Unequal Health Care
Chapter Thirteen. What Color Are Your Germs? Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	197
Chapter Fourteen. Letter to the President’s Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders Quentin D. Young Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	205
Chapter Fifteen. Racism in Red Blood Cells Edwin Black Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	209
Chapter Sixteen. The Uptown People’s Health Center, Chicago, Illinois John Conroy Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	215
Chapter Seventeen. Transfers to a Public Hospital Robert L. Schiff, David A. Ansell, James E. Schlosser, Ahamed H. Idris, Ann Morrison and Steven Whitman Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	226
Chapter Eighteen. Trauma Deserts Marie Crandall, Douglas Sharp, Erin Unger, David Straus, Karen Brasel, Renee Hsia and Thomas Esposito Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	238
Part IV. Communities Matter
Chapter Nineteen. Social Support in Smoking Cessation among Black Women in Chicago Public Housing Loretta P. Lacey, Clara Manfredi, George Balch, Richard B. Warnecke, Karen Allen and Constance Edwards Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	257
Chapter Twenty. Life Expectancy, Economic Inequality, Homicide, and Reproductive Timing in Chicago Neighbourhoods Margo Wilson and Martin Daly Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	271
Chapter Twenty-One. Neighborhoods and Violent Crime Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush and Felton Earls Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	282
Chapter Twenty-Two. Urban Violence and African American Pregnancy Outcome James W. Collins and Richard J. David Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	304
Chapter Twenty-Three. Social Capital and Neighborhood Mortality Rates in Chicago Kimberly A. Lochner, Ichiro Kawachi, Robert T. Brennan and Stephen L. Buka Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	313
Chapter Twenty-Four. Weathering Jan Warren-Findlow Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	325
Chapter Twenty-Five. The Protective Effect of Community Factors on Childhood Asthma Ruchi S. Gupta, Xingyou Zhang, Lisa K. Sharp, John J. Shannon and Kevin B. Weiss Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	346
Part V. Taking Action
Chapter Twenty-Six. Community Health in a Chicago Slum John L. McKnight Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	371
Chapter Twenty-Seven. CeaseFire Nancy Ritter Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	379
Chapter Twenty-Eight. A Community Effort to Reduce the Black/White Breast Cancer Mortality Disparity in Chicago David Ansell, Paula Grabler, Steven Whitman, Carol Ferrans, Jacqueline Burgess-Bishop, Linda Rae Murray, Ruta Rao and Elizabeth Marcus Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	386
Chapter Twenty-Nine. The Fight for a University of Chicago Adult Trauma Center Claire Bushey and Kristen Schorsch Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	399
Chapter Thirty. Selections from Healthy Chicago 2.0: Partnering to Improve Health Equity, 2016– 2020 Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	412
Conclusion Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	421
Suggestions for Further Reading Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	429
Author Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	431
Subject Index Access restricted Content is available PDF PDF	435

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