Foreword, Linda Rae Murray
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. A Divided City
1. Negro Mortality Rates in Chicago (1927)
H. L. Harris Jr.
2. Selections from
Mental Disorders in Urban Areas: An Ecological Study of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses (1939)
Robert E. L. Faris and H. Warren Dunham
3. Selection from
Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City (1945)
St. Clair Drake and Horace R. Cayton
4. Selection from
Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America (1993)
Laurie Kaye Abraham
5. Selections from
Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect (2012)
Robert J. Sampson
Part II. The Health Gap
6. Cancer Profiles from Several High-Risk Chicago Communities (1987)
Clyde W. Phillips and Loretta F. Prat Lacey
7. Differing Birth Weight among Infants of U.S.-Born Blacks, African-Born Blacks, and U.S.-Born Whites (1997)
Richard J. David and James W. Collins Jr.
8. Variations in the Health Conditions of Six Chicago Community Areas: A Case for Local-Level Data (2006)
Ami M. Shah, Steven Whitman, and Abigail Silva
9. Demographic Characteristics and Survival with AIDS: Health Disparities in Chicago, 1993–2001 (2009)
Girma Woldemichael, Demian Christiansen, Sandra Thomas, and Nanette Benbow
10. The Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Mortality (2011)
Steven Whitman, David Ansell, Jennifer Orsi, and Teena Francois
11. Black Women’s Awareness of Breast Cancer Disparity and Perceptions of the Causes of Disparity (2013)
Karen Kaiser, Kenzie A. Cameron, Gina Curry, and Melinda Stolley
12. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence: Reconsidering the Role of Chronic Stress (2014)
Margaret T. Hicken, Hedwig Lee, Jeffrey Morenoff, James S. House, and David R. Williams
Part III. Separate and Unequal Health Care
13. What Color Are
Your Germs? (1954)
Committee to End Discrimination in Chicago Medical Institutions
14. Letter to the President’s Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1967)
Quentin D. Young
15. Racism in Red Blood Cells: The Chicago 45,000 and the Board of Health (1972)
Edwin Black
16. The Uptown People’s Health Center, Chicago, Illinois (1979)
John Conroy
17. Transfers to a Public Hospital: A Prospective Study of 467 Patients (1986)
Robert L. Schiff, David A. Ansell, James E. Schlosser, Ahamed H. Idris, Ann Morrison, and Steven Whitman
18. Trauma Deserts: Distance from a Trauma Center, Transport Times, and Mortality from Gunshot Wounds in Chicago (2013)
Marie Crandall, Douglas Sharp, Erin Unger, David Straus, Karen Brasel, Renee Hsia, and Thomas Esposito
Part IV. Communities Matter
19. Social Support in Smoking Cessation among Black Women in Chicago Public Housing (1993)
Loretta P. Lacey, Clara Manfredi, George Balch, Richard B. Warnecke, Karen Allen, and Constance Edwards
20. Life Expectancy, Economic Inequality, Homicide, and Reproductive Timing in Chicago Neighbourhoods (1997)
Margo Wilson and Martin Daly
21. Neighborhoods and Violent Crime: A Multilevel Study of Collective Efficacy (1997)
Robert J. Sampson, Stephen W. Raudenbush, and Felton Earls
22. Urban Violence and African-American Pregnancy Outcome: An Ecologic Study (1997)
James W. Collins Jr. and Richard J. David
23. Social Capital and Neighborhood Mortality Rates in Chicago (2003)
Kimberly A. Lochner, Ichiro Kawachi, Robert T. Brennan, and Stephen L. Buka
24. Weathering: Stress and Heart Disease in African American Women Living in Chicago (2006)
Jan Warren-Findlow
25. The Protective Effect of Community Factors on Childhood Asthma (2009)
Ruchi S. Gupta, Xingyou Zhang, Lisa K. Sharp, John J. Shannon, and Kevin B. Weiss
Part V. Taking Action
26. Community Health in a Chicago Slum (1980)
John L. McKnight
27. CeaseFire: A Public Health Approach to Reduce Shootings and Killings (2009)
Nancy Ritter
28. A Community Effort to Reduce the Black/White Breast Cancer Mortality Disparity in Chicago (2009)
David Ansell, Paula Grabler, Steven Whitman, Carol Ferrans, Jacqueline Burgess-Bishop, Linda Rae Murray, Ruta Rao, and Elizabeth Marcus
29. The Fight for a University of Chicago Adult Trauma Center: The Rumble and the Reversal (2016)
Claire Bushey and Kristen Schorsch
30. Selections from
Healthy Chicago 2.0: Partnering to Improve Health Equity, 2016–2020 (2016)
Chicago Department of Public Health
Conclusion
Suggestions for Further Reading
Index