Notes
1 Stephen Ohlemacher, “US Slipping in Life Expectancy Rankings,” The Associated Press, August 12, 2007.
2 Michael Marmot, The Status Syndrome: How Social Standing Affects Our Health and Longevity (New York: Owl Books, 2004).
3 National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), Health, United States (Washington, DC: U.S. Printing Office, 2002).
4 Institute of Medicine, Coverage Matters (Washington, DC: National Academy Press, 2001).
5 US Department of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics website, http://www.bls.gov.
6 Institute of Medicine, Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care (Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2003).
7 Jill Quadagno, One Nation, Uninsured (New York: Oxford University Press, 2005).
8 David Cay Johnston, “Income Gap is Widening, Data Shows,” New York Times, March 29, 2007.
9 Richard G. Wilkinson, The Impact of Inequality: How to Make Sick Societies Healthier (New York: The New Press, 2005).
10 N. E. Adler, E. S. Epel, G. Castellazzo, and J.R. Ickovics, “Relationship of Subjective and Objective Social Status with Psychological and Physiological Functioning: Preliminary Data in Healthy White Women,” Health Psychology 19:6, pp. 586–592.
11 William W. Dressler, “Culture and Blood Pressure: Using Consensus Analysis to Create a Measurement,” Cultural Anthropology Methods 8:6–8 (1996); William W. Dressler, Mauro Campos Baliero, and Jose Ernesto Dos Santos, “Culture, Skin Color, and Arterial Blood Pressure in Brazil,” American Journal of Human Biology 11:49–59 (1999).
12 Ichiro Kawachi and Bruce P. Kennedy, The Health of Nations: Why Inequality is Harmful to Your Health (New York: the New Press, 2006).
13 Robert Sapolsky, “Sick of Poverty,” Scientific American 296:6 (2005), pp. 92–99.
14 Arlie Hochschild, The Second Shift: Working Parents and the Revolution at Home (New York: Viking Penguin, 1989).
15 Kawachi and Kennedy, op. cit.
16 Vincente Navarro, Carles Mutaner, Carme Borrell, Joan Benach, Agueda Quiroga, Maica Rodriguez-Sanz, Nuria Vergés, and M. Isable Pasarin, “Politics and Health Outcomes,” The Lancet, 368: 9540, September 14, 2006, pp. 1033–1037.