Eliminating health disparities is a fundamental, though not always explicit, goal of public
health research and practice. There is a burgeoning literature in this area, but a number of …

Background. Despite an extensive literature, there have been widely divergent findings
regarding the direction of the association between area socio-economic characteristics and area …

Although previous systematic reviews considered the relationship between socioeconomic
status and obesity, almost 200 peer‐reviewed articles have been published since the last …

… DH Rehkopf assisted with the study and analyses. SV Subramanian assisted with the study
design and data interpretation. All authors helped to conceptualize ideas, interpret findings, …

… DH Rehkopf assisted with the study and analyses. SV Subramanian assisted with study
design and data interpretation. All authors helped to conceptualize ideas, interpret findings, and …

This study estimates the effects of prenatal poverty on birth weight using changes in state
Earned Income Tax Credits (EITC) as a natural experiment. We seek to answer two questions …

The absence of individual-level socioeconomic information in most US health surveillance
data necessitates using area-based socioeconomic measures (ABSMs) to monitor health …

Background Debates exist as to whether, as overall population health improves, the absolute
and relative magnitude of income- and race/ethnicity-related health disparities necessarily …

PURPOSE: The aim of the study is to examine whether socioeconomic position (SEP) is
associated with metabolic syndrome and whether the association differs by gender and race/…

The authors conducted a meta-analytic review to assess the prevalence of major depressive
disorder and depressive symptoms among Latinos compared with non-Latino Whites in the …