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Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Other Social Characteristics as Factors in Health and Health Care Disparities

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Research in the Sociology of Health Care

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Research in the Sociology of Health Care Volume 38

Race, Ethnicity, Gender, and Other Social Characteristics as Factors in Health and Health Care Disparities

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Jennie Jacobs Kronenfeld

Arizona State University, USA

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About the Authors

Annika Y. Anderson, PhD, MA, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Sociology where she teaches classes on deviant behavior, criminology, and race and ethnic relations. She received her BA in Public Relations from Pennsylvania State University and her MA and PhD in Sociology from Washington State University.

Dr Roksana Badruddoja, PhD, MBA, is a mother and a Associate Professor of Sociology and Women and Gender Studies. She is the author of Eyes of the Storms: The Voices of South Asian-American Women, the editor of New Maternalisms: Tales of Motherwork, and a contributor of Good Girls Marry Doctors: South Asian Daughters in Obedience and Rebellion.

Dr Matt Thomas Bagwell, PhD, MPA, is an Assistant Professor in the Public Administration Division at Tarleton State University. He has worked extensively in public health policy and research; his current interests include broadly public policy analysis, budgeting, ethics, organizational theories, human resource management, public health, and administrative leadership.

Dr Sangeeta Das Bhattacharya MD, MPH, is working in the area of evidence-based health policies, internal medicine, pediatrics, HIV/AIDS, and college mental health programs, and global health. She is a professor in the School of Medical Science and Technology, IIT Kharagpur. Prof Bhattacharya is an alumnus of John Hopkins University and authored several research papers in international journals.

Tulika Bhattacharyya is a Sociologist, Psychologist, and Gerontologist by training. She has been interested in understanding the distinctive contributions institutions of higher education can make in responding to the interests and needs of the aging population, especially in the context of research poor countries.

Dr Debolina Chatterjee is Assistant Professor in the Department of Human Development, J.D. Birla Institute, Kolkata, affiliated to Jadavpur University. Her research interests are in prison studies, sociology of health and illness, gender and ageing.

Prof. Suhita Chopra Chatterjee teaches Sociology of Ageing and Gerontechnology at IIT Kharagpur. Recently she published a book titled Death and Dying in India: Ageing and End-of-Life Care of the Elderly. She is a life-long writer and has a uniquely wry voice that glows through her writings.

Claudia Chaufan, MD, PhD, is Associate Professor of Health Policy and Global Health and Director of the Graduate Program in Health at York University, Canada. Prof Chaufan's background spans clinical medicine, sociology, comparative political economy, and philosophy. She teaches about and conducts research on health issues in relation to capitalist globalization, medicalization, language/power/discourse, and the scholarship of teaching and learning; has published widely; is board member and reviewer of refereed journals; and a long-time supporter of grassroots organizations opposing imperialism and war.

Patricia Drentea, PhD, is professor of sociology at the University of Alabama at Birmingham. Her recent book, Families and Aging (Rowman & Littlefield) examines how social trends in families in the US will affect the aging experience. She has published widely in areas of family, gender, race and mental health.

Kelsey E. Gonzalez is a PhD student in the School of Sociology at the University of Arizona. Her research focuses on quantitative methodology, the social determinants of physical and mental health and illness, racial and panethnic identities, and discrimination.

Nicole Henley, PhD, MBA, is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Health Science and Human Ecology. She received her PhD in Health Services from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her research focuses on social determinants of health and access to health care for vulnerable populations.

Terrence D. Hill is an Associate Professor in the School of Sociology and a Scientific Member of the Arizona Center on Aging at the University of Arizona. His research examines the social distribution of health and health-relevant behaviors.

Kimberly R. Huyser, PhD, is an Associate Professor of Sociology at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver. Her research seeks to gain a deeper understanding of the social conditions that undermine health and to identify the cultural and social resources leveraged by racial and ethnic groups in the United States.

Fabrice Julien, MPH, MA, is a doctoral candidate in Medical Sociology at The University of Alabama at Birmingham. His research interests include immigrant health, adolescent mental health, race and discrimination, global health, aging, and social stratification and mobility. Julien is currently funded by the Agency for Healthcare Research Quality (AHRQ).

Maureen Walsh Koricke, PhD, is Assistant Professor in Health Administration and Director of the Master of Health Administration Program at Queens University of Charlotte. Her research focuses on patient safety and quality improvement in health care delivery.

Rajeev Kumar, MSW, MPhil, PhD, completed his doctoral research on HIV/AIDS availing UGC Senior Research Fellowship from the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India). Dr Kumar is an alumnus of the Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Mumbai, and Central Institute of Psychiatry, Ranchi (India). He is a mental health professional and published several research papers in reputed international books and journals on mental health, community health, and gender rights.

Jessica L. Liddell, MSW/MPH, is a PhD candidate in Social Work at the University of Tulane. Her research focuses on sexual and reproductive health, reproductive justice issues, making health services more responsive to community needs and input, and harm reduction service models.

Andrew H. Mannheimer is a Lecturer in Sociology at Clemson University. His research interests are education, culture, and race and ethnicity. His work examines the ways social institutions reproduce racial and ethnic inequalities. Recently he won the Phil Prince Award for Innovation in Teaching.

Spero M. Manson, PhD, is a Distinguished Professor of Public Health and Psychiatry and directs the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health which includes 10 national centers engaging with 250 Native communities. He is widely acknowledged as one of the nation's leading authorities on Indian and Native health.

Adrienne N. Milner is a Senior Lecturer in the College of Health and Life Sciences and a member of the Institute of Environment, Health and Societies at Brunel University London. Her research addresses issues of health equity in terms of race and ethnicity and sex and gender.

Joan O'Connell, PhD, is a Health Economist at the Centers for American Indian and Alaska Native Health at the Colorado School of Public Health, University of Colorado. She is Director of the Indian Health Service Improving Health Care Delivery Data Project; data from this project were analyzed in this study.

Hyunsu Oh is a PhD candidate in Sociology at University of California, Merced. His research broadly examines experiences of Asian immigrants and their descendants in various areas, including education, health, and the labor market. He is the recipient of the 2017 Distinguished Graduate Student Paper Award, Pacific Sociological Association.

Jennifer Rockell, PhD in Human Nutrition, University of Otago, is a Lead Health Data Analyst with Telligen, Inc. Her work examines Medicare care transitions, chronic disease management, behavioral health, and vulnerable populations. For 10 years, her research informed health care policy and service delivery for American Indian and Alaska Native communities.

Teresa L. Scheid is a Professor of Sociology and Public Policy at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Her research focuses on the organization and delivery of health care services with the majority of her research focused on mental health. She is senior editor of The Handbook for the Study of Mental Health (Cambridge University Press) and the author of numerous publications including peer-reviewed journal articles and books.

Dr Sanjay Kumar Singh, MD, is a Professor in the Department of Medicine, Rajendra Institute of Medical Sciences (RIMS), Ranchi (India). As a Nodal Officer of Anti-Retroviral Therapy (ART) Centre of RIMS, Dr Singh supervises the therapeutic management of persons infected with HIV/AIDS. Dr Singh has published several research papers in journals of national and international fame.

Damodar Suar, PhD, is a Professor at the Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur (India). He is the Editor-in-Chief of the journal, Psychological Studies (Springer). His research focuses on leadership, business ethics, cognition, post-disaster trauma, and HIV/AIDS. He has authored over 125 scientific/professional articles, 17 book chapters, one book, and co-edited four books.

Dr Thomas T. H. Wan, PhD, MHS, is a Professor of Public Affairs, Health Management and Informatics, and Medical Education at University of Central Florida. His extensive research expertise includes health care informatics, health systems analysis and evaluation, long-term care, artificial intelligence applications in health care, and clinical health services research.

Charlton Wilson, MD, is a Consultant and Physician Executive who has extensive leadership experience in medicine, public health, and health policy with an emphasis on the populations served by Medicare, Medicaid, and the Indian Health Service programs.

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