And, there's a lot more to it than socieconomics or ethnicity...think about
gays/lesbians, people with disabilities, sex workers, etc.  Different
sub-groups of people can become stigmatized and marginalized for any number
of reasons.
AB

At 02:12 PM 12/2/2004, Barbara Starfield wrote:
>Then why is it that so little is known about the health problems of
>Caucasian individuals who are of low and working class?  Or why has
>there not been an effort to find the common threads (like low minimum
>wages levels and other similar characteristics) across disadvantaged
>groups to enable the development of a coherent national strategy to
>eliminate/reduce inequity, at least in health?
>
>Barbara Starfield, MD
>
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Social Determinants of Health [mailto:[log in to unmask]] On Behalf Of
>Heurtin-Roberts, Suzanne (NIH/NCI)
>Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 2:35 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [SDOH] Pretty major event re: health disparities, BUT
>
>A little further in this vein, in the US we generally recognized
>disparities
>in health founded on race, ethnicity, or socioeconomic position among
>other
>factors.  We certainly attend to more than racial or ethnic disparities
>in
>health.
>
>Suzanne Heurtin-Roberts, Ph.D., M.S.W.
>Health Disparities Research Coordinator
>Office of the Associate Director
>Behavioral Research Program,
>Division of Cancer Control and Population Sciences
>National Cancer Institute
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>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mario Browne [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
>Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2004 1:04 PM
>To: [log in to unmask]
>Subject: Re: [SDOH] Pretty major event re: health disparities, BUT
>
>Your assumptions amuse me. Perhaps white folk who are poor are
>experiencing "racial" health disparities, especially since "race" is a
>social construct, however I am sure that "racism" occurs in Canada,
>doesn't it? We cannot afford to only look at the socioeconomic
>"inequities", but also the underlying racial and ethnic "disparities".
>But
>hey, we all have our battles to fight. Some of us fight from an etic
>perspective and some from an emic perspective.
>Thank you for making my point.
>
>Peace,
>
>Mario
>
>Social Determinants of Health <[log in to unmask]> on Thursday, December 02,
>2004 at 11:29 AM -0500 wrote:
> >The nomenclature "racial" and "ethnic" health disparities used in the
> >States (compared to Social Determinants of Health as "we" refer to it
>in
> >Canada) is so very interesting since so many poor people in the U.S.
>are
> >definitively Caucasian and wouldn't refer to or see themselves as being
> >ethnically diverse because they are poor.  Yet according to your
> >terminology they are catagorically experiencing racial and ethnic
>health
> >disparity.
> >
> >
> >Good luck to you,
> >
> >
> >  Deborah
> >
> >
> >>>> [log in to unmask] 12/1/2004 10:20:09 PM >>>
> >In the US "we" call them RACIAL and ETHNIC Health Disparities!
> >
> >
> >Social Determinants of Health <[log in to unmask]> writes:
> >>Well it won't get far whilke even progressives in the US continue to
> >call
> >>health inequities "disparities".  That Thatcherist/Reagonist term
> >should
> >>be consigned to the waste and even health inequalities should only be
> >>used for descriptive purposes.  But for analysis and policy
> >development,
> >>let's call them what they are, preventable, reinforced by elites in
> >the
> >>face of evidence and therefore inequities.
> >>
> >>
> >>>>> [log in to unmask] 12/02/04 03:09am >>>
> >>This looks like a temendous opportunity.  And since it will be
> >>web-archived, it can be accessed and saved, I would think on CDs.
> >>
> >>
> >>But the big question is, and I ask this in the greatest sympathy to
> >my
> >>neighbours to the south:
> >>
> >>
> >>Can this come to anything in George Bush's America? - dr
> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>----
>---------
> >>From EQUIDAD/PAHO list
> >>----------------------------------------------------------------------
>----
>---------
> >>
> >>
> >>HEALTH DISPARITIES & THE BODY POLITIC:
> >>
> >>
> >>POLICY, RESEARCH, DATA & GOVERNMENT RESPONSIBILITY
> >>
> >>
> >> Three international symposia sponsored by the Harvard School of
> >Public
> >>Health:
> >> March 3, 2005  - April 14, 2005 -  May 5, 2005
> >> For free registration & information on accessing free webcast, see
> >>website
> >>at:  http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/disparities
> >>
> >>
> >> Social inequality may be harmful to your health. It increases the
> >burden
> >>of disability and disease in communities and cuts short lives.
> >>Economic deprivation, discrimination, lack of access to health
> >services,
> >>and violation or neglect of human rights all play a part in shaping
> >>population health.
> >> Yet, despite centuries of evidence on the toll of adverse living and
> >>working conditions on health, only been in the past decade has
> >concern
> >>with
> >>social inequalities in health become part of the mainstream public
> >health
> >>agenda.
> >> To explore the role that governments and engaged communities can play
> >in
> >>reducing and rectifying social inequities in health worldwide, the
> >Harvard
> >>School of Public Health is hosting a three-part symposium series.
> >>
> >>
> >> --Thursday, March 3, 2:00 pm -- 5:00 pm, Harvard Conference Center,
> >77
> >>Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston
> >> "Spreading the Health: Government's Role in Addressing Health
> >>Disparities."
> >>
> >>
> >> --Thursday, April 14, 2:00 pm -- 5:00 pm, Harvard Conference Center,
> >77
> >>Avenue Louis Pasteur, Boston.
> >>  "Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas for National Health
> >>Research Institutes"
> >>
> >>
> >> --Thursday, May 5, 2:00 -- 5:00 pm, Harvard Conference Center, 77
> >Avenue
> >>Louis Pasteur, Boston
> >>"Making Disparities Count: From Government Statistics Systems to
> >Action"
> >>
> >>
> >> To enhance the global reach of the symposia, each session will be
> >web
> >>cast
> >>live, with free access. All sessions will be archived, also with free
> >>access, at this symposium web site hosted by the Harvard School of
> >Public
> >>Health.
> >>
> >>
> >> The content of all the symposia has been developed independently of
> >our
> >>sponsors. Admission is free. Seating is limited. See symposium
> >>descriptions
> >>for registration deadlines.
> >>
> >>
> >>  SYMPOSIUM PARTICIPANTS:
> >>
> >>
> >> --March 3, 2005: "Spreading the Health: Government's Role in
> >Addressing
> >>Health Disparities"
> >>
> >>
> >>  Moderator:
> >>David Studdert, PhD, HSPH Associate Professor of Law and Public
> >Health
> >>
> >>
> >> Speakers:
> >>Carolyn Clancy, MD, Director, Agency for Healthcare Research and
> >Quality,
> >>United States Department of Health and Human Services;
> >> Fiona Adshead, MD, Deputy Medical Officer, Department of Health,
> >United
> >>Kingdom;
> >> Asa Christina Laurell, MD, Minister of Health, Mexico City;
> >> Irene Nilsson Carlsson, Director, Division for Public Health,
> >Sweden.
> >>
> >>
> >> Discussant:
> >>Sir Donald Acheson, professor emeritus, University College of London,
> >>author of The Acheson Inquiry
> >>
> >>
> >> Q & A Panel:
> >>
> >>
> >>Deborah Prothrow Stith, MD, HSPH Professor of Public Health Practice,
> >>Facilitator
> >> Kalahn Taylor Clark, HSPH graduate student;
> >> Sofia Gruskin, HSPH Associate Professor of Health and Human Rights;
> >> Ashih Jha, HSPH Assistant Professor of Health Management and HMS
> >Research
> >>Fellow in Medicine;
> >> Brent Staples (invited), The New York Times, columnist.
> >>
> >>
> >>  --April 14, 2005: "Investigating Health Disparities: New Agendas
> >for
> >>National Health Research Institutes"
> >> Moderator: Lisa Berkman, HSPH Professor of Public Policy, Departments
> >of
> >>Society, Human Development, and Health and Epidemiology, Harvard
> >School of
> >>Public Health
> >>
> >>
> >> Speakers:
> >>Elias Zerhouni, MD, Director, U.S. National Institutes of Health;
> >> John Frank, PhD, Scientific Director, Institute of Population and
> >Public
> >>Health, Canada;
> >> Mirta Roses Periago, MD, Director, Pan American Health Organization;
> >>PAHO/WHO
> >> Sujatha Rao, MD, Member Secretary of the National Commission on
> >>Macroeconomics and Health, India.
> >>
> >>
> >> Discussant:
> >>Harvey Fineberg, MD, PhD, MPH, President, Institute of Medicine
> >>
> >>
> >> Q & A Panel:
> >>
> >>
> >>Howard Koh, MD, HSPH Professor of Health Policy, Facilitator
> >> JudyAnn Bigby, MD, Director of Community Health Programs and HMS
> >Center
> >>of
> >>Excellence in Women's Health, Brigham and Women57;s Hospital;
> >> Christopher Murray, MD, PhD, HSPH Professor of Population Policy,
> >>Director
> >>of the Harvard Global Health Initiative;
> >> Atul Gawande, MD, Assistant Professor of Surgery, Brigham and
> >Women's
> >>Hospital;
> >> Maria Glymour, SD, Research Associate, HSPH Department of Society,
> >Human
> >>Development, and Health.
> >>
> >>
> >>  --May 5, 2005: "Making Disparities Count: From Government
> >Statistics
> >>Systems to Action"
> >> Moderator: Nancy Krieger, PhD, HSPH Associate Professor of Society,
> >Human
> >>Development, and Health, Harvard School of Public Health
> >>
> >>
> >> Speakers:
> >>John Fox, PhD, Director of Statistics, Department of Health, United
> >>Kingdom
> >> Vickie Mays, PhD, Professor of Clinical Psychology, University of
> >>California-Los Angeles and Director, UCLA Center on Research,
> >Education,
> >>Training, and Strategic Communications on Minority Health
> >Disparities;
> >> Eduardo Mota, SD, Chief of Health Statistics, Instituto de Saude
> >>Coletiva,
> >>Brazil;
> >>
> >>
> >> Discussant:
> >>Godfrey Woelk, PhD, Associate Professor, Department of Communitiy
> >>Medicine,
> >>College of Health Sciences, University of Zimbabwe;
> >>
> >>
> >> Q & A Panel:
> >>
> >>
> >>Robert Blendon, ScD, HSPH Professor of Health Policy and Management,
> >>Facilitator
> >> Howard Koh, MD, HSPH Professor of Health Policy;
> >> Mary Waters, PhD, Professor of Sociology, Harvard;
> >> Evelynn Hammonds, PhD, SM, Professor of the History of Science and
> >>African
> >>and African American Studies, Harvard;
> >>
> >>
> >> David Rehkopf, MPH, doctoral candidate, Harvard School of Public
> >Health
> >> Organized by the HSPH Health Disparities Working Group symposia
> >>committee:
> >>Nancy Krieger, Lisa Berkman, David Studdert, Bev Freeman, Alix
> >Smullin
> >>
> >>
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