Day 1 Health reading list
A. Social Determinants of Health
i.
Theory
ii.
SES
iii.
Race
iv.
Gender
v.
Families & Relationships
B. Stress & Social Support
C. Life Course
i.
Cohorts
ii.
Aging and Longevity
iii.
Early life origins of health and illness
iv.
Biodemography/Biosocial
A. Social Determinants of Health
i. Theory
House, James S. 2002. "Understanding Social Factors and Inequalities in Health: 20th
Century Progress and 21st Century Prospects." Journal of Health and Social Behavior
43:125-142.
Kirk, Dudley. 1996. "Demographic Transition Theory." Population Studies 50:361-387.
Link, Bruce G., and Jo C. Phelan. 1995. "Social Conditions as Fundamental Causes of
Disease." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 35:80-94.
Link, Bruce G. 2008. "Epidemiological Sociology and the Social Shaping of Population
Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 49:367-384.
Phelan, Jo C., Bruce G. Link, and Parisa Tehranifar. “Social Conditions as Fundamental
Causes of Health Inequalities Theory, Evidence, and Policy Implications.” Journal of
Health and Social Behavior 51, no. 1 suppl (November 1, 2010): S28–S40.
Rosich, Katherine J. and Janet R. Hankin. 2010. “Executive Summary: What Do We
Know? Key Findings from 50 Years of Medical Sociology.” Journal of Health and
Social Behavior 51(S): S1-S9.
ii. SES
Demakakos, Panayotes, James Nazroo, Elizabeth Breeze, and Michael Marmot. 2008.
"Socioeconomic status and health: The role of subjective social status." Social Science &
Medicine 67:330-340.
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Masters, Ryan K, Robert A Hummer, and Daniel A Powers. 2012. "Educational
Differences in US Adult Mortality A Cohort Perspective." American sociological review
77:548-572.
Miech, Richard, Fred Pampel, Jinyoung Kim, and Richard G. Rogers. 2011. The
enduring association between education and mortality: The role of widening and
narrowing disparities. American Sociological Review 76(6): 913-934.
Montez, Jennifer Karas, Robert Hummer, and Mark Hayward. (2011). “Educational
attainment and adult mortality in the United States: A systematic analysis of functional
form.” Demography.
Hayward, M., Hummer, R. & I. Sasson 2015. “Trends and group differences in the
association between educational attainment and U.S. adult mortality: Implications for
understanding education's causal influence.” Social Science & Medicine, 127:8-18.
Ross, Catherine E., Ryan K. Masters, and Robert A. Hummer. 2012. “Education and the
Gender Gaps in Health and Mortality.” Demography 49 (4) (November 1): 1157–1183.
iii. Race
Bratter, Jenifer L., Bridget K. Gorman. 2011. Does Multiracial Matter? A Study of Racial
Disparities in Self-Rated Health. Demography, 48, 127-52.
Geronimus, A.T., M. Hicken, D. Keene, and J. Bound. 2006. ""Weathering" and Age
Patterns of Allostatic Load Scores Among Blacks and Whites in the United States." Am J
Public Health 96(5):826-833.
Hayward, M. D., T. P. Miles, et al. (2000). "The Significance of Socioeconomic Status in
Explaining the Racial Gap in Chronic Health Conditions." American Sociological Review
65(6): 910 -930.
Hummer, Robert. 1996. "Black-White Differences in Health and Mortality: A Review
and Conceptual Model." The Sociological Quarterly 37:105-125.
Lariscy, Joseph T., Robert A. Hummer, Mark D. Hayward. 2014. Hispanic Older Adult
Mortality in the United States: New Estimates and an Assessment of Factors Shaping the
Hispanic Paradox. Demography [Epub ahead of print]
Masters R, Hummer RA, Powers DA, Beck A, Lin SF, Finch BK. 2014. Long-Term
Trends in Adult Mortality for U.S. Blacks and Whites: An Examination of Period- and
Cohort-Based Changes. Demography. 2014 Dec;51(6):2047-73.
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Pais, Jeremy. 2014. Cumulative Structural Disadvantage and Racial Health Disparities:
The Pathways of Childhood Socioeconomic Influence. Demography. 2014
Oct;51(5):1729-53.
Powers, Daniel A. 2013. Paradox Revisited: A Further Investigation of Racial/Ethnic
Differences in Infant Mortality by Maternal Age. Demography. Apr;50(2):495-520
Williams, David R. and Michelle Sternthal. 2010. Understanding Racial- ethnic
Disparities in Health: Sociological Contributions. J Health Soc Behav. 2010;51
Suppl:S15-27.
iv. Gender
Courtenay, Will H. Constructions of masculinity and their influence on men's well-being:
a theory of gender and health. Social Science & Medicine 50 (2000) 1385-1401
Gorman, B. K., et al. (2010). “Gender, Acculturation, and Health among Mexican
Americans.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 51(4): 440-457.
Hill, Terrence D.; Needham, Belinda L. 2013. "Rethinking gender and mental health: A
critical analysis of three propositions.” Social Science & Medicine 92:83-91.
Montez, J.K. and A. Zajacova. 2013. “Explaining the Widening Education Gap in
Mortality among U.S. White Women.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior 54:166182.
Jen'nan Ghazal Read and Bridget K. Gorman. 2010. “Gender and Health Inequality.”
Annual Review of Sociology. Vol. 36: 371-386.
Springer KW, Hankivsky Olena, Bates Lisa M. “Gender and health: Relational,
intersectional, and biosocial approaches.” Soc Sci Med. 2012 Jun;74(11):1661-6.
Pudrovska T, Reither EN, Logan ES, Sherman-Wilkins KJ. “Gender and reinforcing
associations between socioeconomic disadvantage and body mass over the life course.” J
Health Soc Behav. 2014 Sep;55(3):283-301
Pudrovska T, Karraker A. “Gender, job authority, and depression.” J Health Soc Behav.
2014 Dec;55(4):424-41.
T Pudrovska, D Carr, M McFarland, C Collins “Higher-status occupations and breast
cancer: A life-course stress approach.” Social Science & Medicine, 2013
v. Families & Relationships
Carr, D., & Springer, K. 2010. Advances in Families and Health Research in the 21st
Century.
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House, James S., Karl R. Landis, and Debra Umberson. 1988. "Social relationships and
health." Science 241:540.
McFarland, Michael J., Mark D. Hayward, and Dustin Brown. 2013. "I've Got You under
My Skin: Marital Biography and Biological Risk." Journal of Marriage and Family
75:363-380.
Thomeer, M. B., et al. (2013). "Marital Processes around Depression: A Gendered and
Relational Perspective." Society and Mental Health 3(3): 151-169.
Umberson, D. et al. (2006). You make me sick: Marital quality and health over the life
course. Journal of Health and Social Behavior. 47: 1-16
Umberson D, Pudrovska T, Reczek C. 2010. Parenthood, Childlessness, and Well-Being:
A Life Course Perspective. J Marriage Fam. 2010 Jun;72(3):612-629.
Umberson, Debra, Robert Crosnoe, and Corinne Reczek. 2010. "Social Relationships and
Health Behavior across the Life Course." Annual Review of Sociology 36: 139-157.
Umberson, D., et al. (2014). "Race, Gender, and Chains of Disadvantage: Childhood
Adversity, Social Relationships, and Health." Journal of Health and Social Behavior
55(1): 20-38.
Umberson, Debra and Jennifer Karas Montez. 2010. Social Relationships and Health: A
Flashpoint for Health Policy. J Health Soc Behav. 2010; 51(Suppl): S54–S66.
Williams, Kristi. 2003. Has the Future of Marriage Arrived? A Contemporary
Examination of Gender, Marriage, and Psychological Well-Being. Journal of Health and
Social Behavior, Vol. 44, No. 4 (Dec., 2003), pp. 470-487
Yang, Y. C., et al. (2013). "Social Isolation and Adult Mortality: The Role of Chronic
Inflammation and Sex Differences." Journal of Health and Social Behavior 54(2): 183203.
B. Stress and Social Support
Almeida, David M. et al. 2005. “Do Daily Stress Processes Account for Socioeconomic
Health Disparities?” The Journals of Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences and
Social Sciences 60B, Special Issue II (2005): S34-39.
Pearlin, Leonard I., Scott Schieman, Elena M. Fazio, and Stephen C. Meersman. 2005.
"Stress, Health, and the Life Course: Some Conceptual Perspectives." Journal of Health
and Social Behavior 46:205-219.
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Thoits, Peggy A.. 2010. Mechanisms Linking Social Ties and Support to Physical and
Mental Health. Journal of Health and Social Behavior June 2011 vol. 52 no. 2 145-161.
Thoits, Peggy A.. 2010. Stress and Health: Major Findings and Policy Implications. J
Health Soc Behav. 2010;51 Suppl:S41-53.
Turner, R. Jay, Blair Wheaton, and Donald A. Lloyd. 1995. "The Epidemiology of Social
Stress" American Sociological Review 60: 104-24.
Umberson, Debra, Hui Liu and Corinne Reczek (2008). “Stress and Health Behaviors.”
Pp. 19-44 in Advances in Life Course Research: Stress Processes across the Life Course
(Heather Turner and Scott Schiemann, Editors), Elsevier.
Pudrovska T, Carr D, McFarland M, Collins C. “Higher-status occupations and breast
cancer: a life-course stress approach.” Soc Sci Med. 2013 Jul;89:53-61.
C. Life Course
DiPrete, Thomas and Greg Eirich. 2006. “Cumulative Advantage as a Mechanism for
Inequality: A Review of Theory and Evidence.” Annual Review of Sociology 32:271–297.
Elder, Glen H., Monica Kirkpatrick Johnson, Robert Crosnoe, Jeylan T. Mortimer, and
Michael J. Shanahan. 2003. "The Emergence and Development of Life Course Theory."
Pp. 3-19, Handbooks of Sociology and Social Research: Springer US.
Hatch, Stephani L. 2005. "Conceptualizing and Identifying Cumulative Adversity and
Protective Resources: Implications for Understanding Health Inequalities." Journals of
Gerontology Series B: Psychological Sciences & Social Sciences 60B:130-134.
Willson, Andrea, Kim M. Shuey, and Glen H. Elder, Jr. 2007. "Cumulative Advantage
Processes as Mechanisms of Inequality in Life Course Health." The American Journal of
Sociology 112:1886-1924.
i. Cohorts
Lauderdale Diane S. “Education and Survival: Birth Cohort, Age and Period Effects.”
Demography. 2001;38:551–61.
Lynch Scott M. “Cohort and Life-Course Patterns in the Relationship between Education
and Health: A Hierarchical Approach.” Demography. 2003;40:309–331.
Masters RK, Reither EN, Powers DA, Yang YC, Burger AE, Link BG. 2013. “The
impact of obesity on US mortality levels: the importance of age and cohort factors in
population estimates.” Am J Public Health. 2013 Oct;103(10):1895-901, with
commentary
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Yang, Yang. 2008. “Trends in U.S. Adult Chronic Disease Mortality: Age, Period, and
Cohort Variations.” Demography 45:387-416.
ii. Aging and longevity
Gee, Gilbert C., Eliza K. Pavalko and J. Scott Long. 2007. “Age, Cohort and Perceived
Age Discrimination: Using the Life Course to Assess Self-Reported Age
Discrimination.” Social Forces 86(1):265-90
Mirowsky, John. Cognitive Decline and the Default American Lifestyle. Journals of
Gerontology: Social Sciences. 2011 Jul;66 Suppl 1:i50-8.
Yang, Yang and Linda C. Lee. “Dynamics and Heterogeneity in the Process of Human
Frailty and Aging: Evidence from the U.S. Older Adult Population.” Journals of
Gerontology: Social Sciences, 65(B): 246-255.
iii. Early-Life Origins of Health and Illness
Blackwell, Debra L., Mark D. Hayward, and Eileen M. Crimmins. 2001. "Does
childhood health affect chronic morbidity in later life?" Social Science & Medicine
52:1269-1284. –
Case Anne, Christina Paxson. Causes and Consequences of Early-Life Health.
Demography. 2010;47:S65–S85.
McFarland, Michael and Mark Hayward 2014. “Poverty and Awakening Cortisol in
Adolescence: The Importance of Timing in Early Life.” Society and Mental Health
41:21-37.
Montez, Jennifer Karas, and Mark D. Hayward. 2014. “Cumulative Early-Life Adversity,
Educational Attainment, and Active Life Expectancy among U.S. Adults.” Demography
51(2): 413-435.
Palloni, Alberto, Carolina Milesi, Robert G. White, and Alyn Turner. 2009. "Early
childhood health, reproduction of economic inequalities and the persistence of health and
mortality differentials." Social Science & Medicine 68:1574-1582.
Pudrovska, T. 2014. “Early-Life Socioeconomic Status and Mortality at Three Life
Course Stages: An Increasing Within-Cohort Inequality.” Journal of Health and Social
Behavior 55(2): 181-195.
iv. Biodemography/Biosocial
Caspi, Avshalom et al. 2003. Influence of Life Stress on Depression: Moderation by a
Polymorphism in the 5-HTT Gene. Science. 2003 Jul 18;301(5631):386-9.
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Crimmins E, Kim JK, Vasunilashorn S. 2010. Biodemography: new approaches to
understanding trends and differences in population health and mortality. Demography.
2010;47 Suppl:S41-64.
Crimmins, Eileen M., Jung Kim, and Teresa Seeman. 2009. “Poverty and Biological
Risk: The Earlier ‘Aging’ of the Poor.” Journal of Gerontology: Medical Sciences
64A(2):286–292.
Boardman, J.D., Blalock, C., & F. Pampel. 2010 “Trends in the Genetic Influences on
Smoking.” Journal of Health and Social Behavior, 51(1) 108-123.
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