Title: Community health equity : a Chicago reader /
Authors: De Maio, Fernando, 1976-; Shah, Raj C.; Mazzeo, John; Ansell, David A.
Year: 2019
Subjects: Minorities Medical care Illinois Chicago.; African Americans Medical care Illinois Chicago.; Social medicine Illinois Chicago.; Health services accessibility United States; Discrimination in medical care United States; Health and race; Minority Health; Social Medicine; Health services accessibility; Health and race; Discrimination in medical care; African Americans Medical care; Minorities Medical care; Social medicine; Chicago; United States; Illinois Chicago
Abstract: 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.  -- Provided by publisher.
Contents: Foreword / Linda Rae Murray -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I. A Divided City -- Negro Mortality Rates in Chicago (1927) / H. L. Harris Jr. -- Selections from Mental Disorders in Urban Areas: An Ecological Study of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses (1939) / Robert E. L. Faris and H. Warren Dunham -- Selection from Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945) / St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton -- Selection from Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America (1993) / Laurie Kaye Abraham -- Selections from Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (2012) / Robert J. Sampson --