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The Social Inequalities in Health Journal Club is sponsored by the Center for the Study of Social Inequalities and Health and led by faculty member Lisa Bates. Affiliates of the Center meet monthly to discuss journal articles pertaining to social, behavioral, and cultural factors and health with relevance to the investigation and interpretation of health disparities. Participants read 1-2 articles in advance and engage in an open discussion, including critical textual analysis and consideration of broader substantive and methodological implications.

Articles are selected that: a) support general scholarly “literacy”; b) challenge prevailing paradigms/methods; c) introduce new approaches or topics; and d) make for a fun and interesting discussion. Suggestions of topics or specific articles to discuss are always welcome. The club meets once a month for an hour and a half. Coffee and light fare is provided.

Spring 2012 Social Inequalities in Health Journal Club Meetings

Topics TBA. 

Thurs February 2nd   10:00-11:30am  Conference Room 1101

Geroge Davey Smith. "Epidemiology, epigenetics, and the 'Gloomy Prospect': embracing randomness in population health research and practice." International Journal of Epidemiology, 2011, 40:537-562.

Fri February 17th  10:00-11:30am  Hess auditorium

Ezra Susser, Ingrid Mehlum, and Bruce Link present and discuss their plans for the following study. Socio-economic position in childhood and in adulthood, and intelligence are all predictors of adult health but the relationships between them have been much debated. We want to study these relationships, using a unique Norwegian birth cohort consisting of all live-born in Norway 1967-1971, linked with a number of national registers.

Fri March 16th      10:00-11:30am  Hess auditorium

Do, DP, Frank, R, & Finch, BK. "Does SES Explain More of the Black/White Health Gap than We Thought? Revisiting our Approach Towards Understanding Racial Disparities in Health." Social Science & Medicine, 2012.

Fri April 26th        10:00-11:30am  Room 923

Calogero, RM, & Jost, J. "Self-subjugation Among Women: Exposure to Sexist Ideology, Self-Objectification, and the Protective Function of the Need to Avoid Closure." Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 2011, 100 (2): 211-228.

Fri May 18th         10:00-11:30am  Hess auditorium

Fall 2011 Social Inequalities in Health Journal Club Meetings  

Fri December 16th 10:00-11:30am Conference Room 532 

Socioeconomic Differences in Cardiometabolic Factors: Social Causation or Health-related Selection? 

1.     Elovainio, M, Ferrie, J, Singh-Manoux, A, Shipley, M, Batty, G, Head, J, Hamer, M, Jokela, M, Virtanen, M, Brunner, E, Marmot, M, and Kivimaki, M. “Socioeconomic differences in Cardiometabolic Factors: Social Causation or Health-related Selection? Evidence from the Whitehall II Cohort Study, 1991-2004." American  Journal of Epidemiology, 2011, 174 (7) 779-789.  

Fri November 18th 10:00-11:30am Conference Room 532

Racial Differences in Resilience to Stress

1.     Suglia, S, Cohen, S, Rich-Edwards, J, Staudenmayer, J, Enlow, M, and Wright, R. “Cumulative Stress and Cortisol Disruption among Black and Hispanic Pregnant Women in an Urban Cohort.” Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice and Policy, 2010, 2 (4) 326-334. 

2.     Haley, W, Roth, D, Coleton, M, Ford, G, West, C, Collins, R, and Isobe, T. “Appraisal, Coping and Social Support as Mediators of Well-Being in Black and White Family Caregivers of Patients with Alzheimer’s Disease.” Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1996, 64 (1) 121-129. 

3.   Fuller-Rowell, T, Doan, S, and Eccles, J. "Differential effects of perceived discrimination on the diurnal cotisol rhythm of African Americans and Whites." Psychoneuroendocrinology, 2011, in press.

Tues October 25th 2:00-3:30pm Conference Room 1101

Social Gradients in Health 

Case, A and Paxon, C. "The Long Reach of Childhood Healthand Circumstance: Evidence from the Whitehall II Study." National Bureau of Economic Research, 2010 (15640).

See past meeting topics and article selections.