Race/ethnicity, the social environment, and health

Social Class and Mental Illness

1959 • 3,360 citations

Statistical Abstract of the United States: 1960.

1961 • 2,775 citations

The Increasing Disparity in Mortality between Socioeconomic Groups in the United States, 1960 and 1986

1993 • 1,551 citations

Differential Mortality in the United States: A Study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology.

1975 • 972 citations

Socioeconomic Differentials in Health: A Review and Redirection

1990 • 788 citations

MORTALITY DECLINE AND WIDENING SOCIAL INEQUALITIES

1986 • 568 citations

Mortality among Infants of Black as Compared with White College-Educated Parents

1992 • 383 citations

Race or class versus race and class: mortality differentials in the United States

1990 • 381 citations

Racial Differences in Low Birth Weight

1987 • 378 citations

The Biological Concept of Race and Its Application to Public Health and Epidemiology

1986 • 368 citations

Beyond dummy variables and sample selection: what health services researchers ought to know about race as a variable.

1994 • 358 citations

The Questionable Contribution of Medical Measures to the Decline of Mortality in the United States in the Twentieth Century

1977 • 346 citations

Differential Mortality in the United States: A Study in Socioeconomic Epidemiology.

1974 • 311 citations

Segregation, Poverty, and Empowerment: Health Consequences for African Americans

1993 • 308 citations

The Effect of Known Risk Factors on the Excess Mortality of Black Adults in the United States

1990 • 297 citations

Social class and black-white differences in breast cancer survival.

1986 • 248 citations

Shades of Difference: Theoretical Underpinnings of the Medical Controversy on Black/White Differences in the United States, 1830–1870

1987 • 232 citations

Risk Factors Accounting for Racial Differences in the Rate of Premature Birth

1987 • 216 citations

Living and dying in the U.S.A.: Sociodemographic determinants of death among blacks and whites

1992 • 211 citations

Inconsistencies in Coding of Race and Ethnicity Between Birth and Death in US Infants

1992 • 199 citations

Social Support and Cardiovascular Disease

1994 • 195 citations

“Race” in the Epidemiologic Literature: An Examination of the American Journal of Epidemiology, 1921–1990

1991 • 177 citations

Probing the Meaning of Racial/Ethnic Group Comparisons in Crack Cocaine Smoking

1993 • 176 citations

The Association of Skin Color With Blood Pressure in US Blacks With Low Socioeconomic Status

1991 • 167 citations

Does Racial Variation in Risk Factors Explain Black-White Differences in the Incidence of Hypertensive End-Stage Renal Disease?

1991 • 162 citations

Race, Family Income, and Low Birth Weight

1991 • 151 citations

The concept of race in Health Services Research: 1966 to 1990.

1994 • 144 citations

Health status of minorities and low-income groups

1979 • 134 citations

The distribution of psychiatric morbidity in black Americans: A review and suggestions for research

1984 • 104 citations

Environmentalism and the Politics of Equity: Emergent Trends in the Black Community

1987 • 66 citations

Race or Class or Race and Class: Growing Mortality Differentials in the United States

1991 • 63 citations

Latina and African American Women: Continuing Disparities in Health

1993 • 60 citations

Social Support in the Work Environment and Cardiovascular Disease

1994 • 50 citations

Race differences in psychological distress: The effects of SES, urbanicity, and measurement strategy

1984 • 45 citations

The contribution of socioeconomic position to minority health

1985 • 42 citations

Medical Nemesis: The Exploration of Health.

1977 • 39 citations

Race- and Rank-Specific Infant Mortality in a US Military Population

1992 • 34 citations

Rewriting the SES: Demographic patterns and divorcing families

1986 • 16 citations

Racial Inequality and Occupational Health in the United States: The Effect on White Workers

1985 • 8 citations