Paula A Braveman
Biographic Data
| ID | 124446 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paula A Braveman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paula A |
| FAMILY NAME | Braveman |
| SIGNATURE | BRAVEMAN P A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Paula A. Braveman is with the University of California, San Francisco. Shiriki Kumanyika is with University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia. Jonathan Fielding is with the University of California, Los Angeles, School of Public Health. Thomas LaVeist is with Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD. Luisa N. Borrell is with Lehman College, City University of New York, New York. Ron Manderscheid is with the National Association of County Behavioral Health and... |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 323 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 16 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling
Racism is not always conscious, explicit, or readily visible-often it is systemic and structural. Systemic and structural racism are forms of racism that are pervasively and deeply embedded in systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, and entrenched practices and beliefs that produce, condone, and perpetuate widespread unfair treatment and oppression of people of color, with adverse health consequences. Examples include residential segregatio…
Latina Birth Outcomes in California: Not so Paradoxical
The Role of Socioeconomic Factors in Black–White Disparities in Preterm Birth
Objectives. We investigated the role of socioeconomic factors in Black–White disparities in preterm birth (PTB). Methods. We used the population-based California Maternal and Infant Health Assessment survey and birth certificate data on 10 400 US-born Black and White California residents who gave birth during 2003 to 2010 to examine rates and relative likelihoods of PTB among Black versus White women, with adjustment for multiple socioeconomic fa…
Do wealth disparities contribute to health disparities within racial/ethnic groups
BACKGROUND: Though wide disparities in wealth have been documented across racial/ethnic groups, it is largely unknown whether differences in wealth are associated with health disparities within racial/ethnic groups. METHODS: Data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (2004, ages 25-64) and the Health and Retirement Survey (2004, ages 50+), containing a wide range of assets and debts variables, were used to calculate net worth (a standard measure o…
Broadening the FocusThe Need to Address the Social Determinants of Health
Health Disparities and Health Equity: The Issue Is Justice
Eliminating health disparities is a Healthy People goal. Given the diverse and sometimes broad definitions of health disparities commonly used, a subcommittee convened by the Secretary's Advisory Committee for Healthy People 2020 proposed an operational definition for use in developing objectives and targets, determining resource allocation priorities, and assessing progress. Based on that subcommittee's work, we propose that health disparities a…
Socioeconomic Disparities in Adverse Birth Outcomes
Father’s Education: An Independent Marker of Risk for Preterm Birth
To explore the association between paternal education and preterm birth, taking into account maternal social and economic factors. We analyzed data from a population-based cross-sectional postpartum survey, linked with birth certificates, of women who gave birth in California from 1999 through 2005 (n = 21,712). Women whose infants' fathers had not completed college had significantly higher odds of preterm birth than women whose infants' fathers …
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What the Patterns Tell Us
Objectives. We aimed to describe socioeconomic disparities in the United States across multiple health indicators and socioeconomic groups. Methods. Using recent national data on 5 child (infant mortality, health status, activity limitation, healthy eating, sedentary adolescents) and 6 adult (life expectancy, health status, activity limitation, heart disease, diabetes, obesity) health indicators, we examined indicator rates across multiple income…
Factors Associated With Delayed Childbearing: From the Voices of Expectant Latina Adults and Teens in California
There has been limited research on the protective factors that help Latinas delay childbearing until adulthood. In-depth interviews were conducted with 65 pregnant Latina teenage and adult women in California who were about to have their first child. Lack of or inconsistent birth control use as teens was attributed to wanting or ambivalence toward childbearing, concern about contraceptive side effects and infertility, and/or inadequate contracept…
We also need bold experiments: A response to Starfield's “Commentary: Pathways of influence on equity in health”
Socioeconomic Status in Health Research: One Size Does Not Fit All
Problems with measuring socioeconomic status (SES)-frequently included in clinical and public health studies as a control variable and less frequently as the variable(s) of main interest-could affect research findings and conclusions, with implications for practice and policy. We critically examine standard SES measurement approaches, illustrating problems with examples from new analyses and the literature. For example, marked racial/ethnic diffe…
Early Postnatal Care Among Healthy Newborns in 19 States: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2000
An Approach to Studying Social Disparities in Health and Health Care
Objective. We explored methods and potential applications of a systematic approach to studying and monitoring social disparities in health and health care. Methods. Using delayed or no prenatal care as an example indicator, we (1) categorized women into groups with different levels of underlying social advantage; (2) described and graphically displayed rates of the indicator and relative group size for each social group; (3) identified and measur…
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Unintended Pregnancy Among Postpartum Women in California
Epidemiology and (neo-)colonialism
Reflecting on the complex and important issues raised in the paper by Luis Aviles in this issue of the journal,1 I would like to discuss an example of how a recent shift in the epidemiological approaches used by researchers at an international agency may both mirror the underlying assumptions and reinforce the practice of neocolonialism. As experienced by many low income countries today, “neocolonialism” refers to the replacement of colonial powe…
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What the Patterns Tell Us
Objectives. We aimed to describe socioeconomic disparities in the United States across multiple health indicators and socioeconomic groups. Methods. Using recent national data on 5 child (infant mortality, health status, activity limitation, healthy eating, sedentary adolescents) and 6 adult (life expectancy, health status, activity limitation, heart disease, diabetes, obesity) health indicators, we examined indicator rates across multiple income…
Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling
Racism is not always conscious, explicit, or readily visible-often it is systemic and structural. Systemic and structural racism are forms of racism that are pervasively and deeply embedded in systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, and entrenched practices and beliefs that produce, condone, and perpetuate widespread unfair treatment and oppression of people of color, with adverse health consequences. Examples include residential segregatio…
Health Disparities and Health Equity: The Issue Is Justice
Eliminating health disparities is a Healthy People goal. Given the diverse and sometimes broad definitions of health disparities commonly used, a subcommittee convened by the Secretary's Advisory Committee for Healthy People 2020 proposed an operational definition for use in developing objectives and targets, determining resource allocation priorities, and assessing progress. Based on that subcommittee's work, we propose that health disparities a…
The Role of Socioeconomic Factors in Black–White Disparities in Preterm Birth
Objectives. We investigated the role of socioeconomic factors in Black–White disparities in preterm birth (PTB). Methods. We used the population-based California Maternal and Infant Health Assessment survey and birth certificate data on 10 400 US-born Black and White California residents who gave birth during 2003 to 2010 to examine rates and relative likelihoods of PTB among Black versus White women, with adjustment for multiple socioeconomic fa…
Do wealth disparities contribute to health disparities within racial/ethnic groups
BACKGROUND: Though wide disparities in wealth have been documented across racial/ethnic groups, it is largely unknown whether differences in wealth are associated with health disparities within racial/ethnic groups. METHODS: Data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (2004, ages 25-64) and the Health and Retirement Survey (2004, ages 50+), containing a wide range of assets and debts variables, were used to calculate net worth (a standard measure o…
An Approach to Studying Social Disparities in Health and Health Care
Objective. We explored methods and potential applications of a systematic approach to studying and monitoring social disparities in health and health care. Methods. Using delayed or no prenatal care as an example indicator, we (1) categorized women into groups with different levels of underlying social advantage; (2) described and graphically displayed rates of the indicator and relative group size for each social group; (3) identified and measur…
Factors Associated With Delayed Childbearing: From the Voices of Expectant Latina Adults and Teens in California
There has been limited research on the protective factors that help Latinas delay childbearing until adulthood. In-depth interviews were conducted with 65 pregnant Latina teenage and adult women in California who were about to have their first child. Lack of or inconsistent birth control use as teens was attributed to wanting or ambivalence toward childbearing, concern about contraceptive side effects and infertility, and/or inadequate contracept…
Epidemiology and (neo-)colonialism
Reflecting on the complex and important issues raised in the paper by Luis Aviles in this issue of the journal,1 I would like to discuss an example of how a recent shift in the epidemiological approaches used by researchers at an international agency may both mirror the underlying assumptions and reinforce the practice of neocolonialism. As experienced by many low income countries today, “neocolonialism” refers to the replacement of colonial powe…
Epidemiology and (neo-)colonialism
Reflecting on the complex and important issues raised in the paper by Luis Aviles in this issue of the journal,1 I would like to discuss an example of how a recent shift in the epidemiological approaches used by researchers at an international agency may both mirror the underlying assumptions and reinforce the practice of neocolonialism. As experienced by many low income countries today, “neocolonialism” refers to the replacement of colonial powe…
Socioeconomic and Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Unintended Pregnancy Among Postpartum Women in California
An Approach to Studying Social Disparities in Health and Health Care
Objective. We explored methods and potential applications of a systematic approach to studying and monitoring social disparities in health and health care. Methods. Using delayed or no prenatal care as an example indicator, we (1) categorized women into groups with different levels of underlying social advantage; (2) described and graphically displayed rates of the indicator and relative group size for each social group; (3) identified and measur…
Socioeconomic Status in Health Research: One Size Does Not Fit All
Problems with measuring socioeconomic status (SES)-frequently included in clinical and public health studies as a control variable and less frequently as the variable(s) of main interest-could affect research findings and conclusions, with implications for practice and policy. We critically examine standard SES measurement approaches, illustrating problems with examples from new analyses and the literature. For example, marked racial/ethnic diffe…
Early Postnatal Care Among Healthy Newborns in 19 States: Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 2000
We also need bold experiments: A response to Starfield's “Commentary: Pathways of influence on equity in health”
Socioeconomic Disparities in Adverse Birth Outcomes
Father’s Education: An Independent Marker of Risk for Preterm Birth
To explore the association between paternal education and preterm birth, taking into account maternal social and economic factors. We analyzed data from a population-based cross-sectional postpartum survey, linked with birth certificates, of women who gave birth in California from 1999 through 2005 (n = 21,712). Women whose infants' fathers had not completed college had significantly higher odds of preterm birth than women whose infants' fathers …
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What the Patterns Tell Us
Objectives. We aimed to describe socioeconomic disparities in the United States across multiple health indicators and socioeconomic groups. Methods. Using recent national data on 5 child (infant mortality, health status, activity limitation, healthy eating, sedentary adolescents) and 6 adult (life expectancy, health status, activity limitation, heart disease, diabetes, obesity) health indicators, we examined indicator rates across multiple income…
Factors Associated With Delayed Childbearing: From the Voices of Expectant Latina Adults and Teens in California
There has been limited research on the protective factors that help Latinas delay childbearing until adulthood. In-depth interviews were conducted with 65 pregnant Latina teenage and adult women in California who were about to have their first child. Lack of or inconsistent birth control use as teens was attributed to wanting or ambivalence toward childbearing, concern about contraceptive side effects and infertility, and/or inadequate contracept…
Broadening the FocusThe Need to Address the Social Determinants of Health
Health Disparities and Health Equity: The Issue Is Justice
Eliminating health disparities is a Healthy People goal. Given the diverse and sometimes broad definitions of health disparities commonly used, a subcommittee convened by the Secretary's Advisory Committee for Healthy People 2020 proposed an operational definition for use in developing objectives and targets, determining resource allocation priorities, and assessing progress. Based on that subcommittee's work, we propose that health disparities a…
Do wealth disparities contribute to health disparities within racial/ethnic groups
BACKGROUND: Though wide disparities in wealth have been documented across racial/ethnic groups, it is largely unknown whether differences in wealth are associated with health disparities within racial/ethnic groups. METHODS: Data from the Survey of Consumer Finances (2004, ages 25-64) and the Health and Retirement Survey (2004, ages 50+), containing a wide range of assets and debts variables, were used to calculate net worth (a standard measure o…
The Role of Socioeconomic Factors in Black–White Disparities in Preterm Birth
Objectives. We investigated the role of socioeconomic factors in Black–White disparities in preterm birth (PTB). Methods. We used the population-based California Maternal and Infant Health Assessment survey and birth certificate data on 10 400 US-born Black and White California residents who gave birth during 2003 to 2010 to examine rates and relative likelihoods of PTB among Black versus White women, with adjustment for multiple socioeconomic fa…
Latina Birth Outcomes in California: Not so Paradoxical
Systemic And Structural Racism: Definitions, Examples, Health Damages, And Approaches To Dismantling
Racism is not always conscious, explicit, or readily visible-often it is systemic and structural. Systemic and structural racism are forms of racism that are pervasively and deeply embedded in systems, laws, written or unwritten policies, and entrenched practices and beliefs that produce, condone, and perpetuate widespread unfair treatment and oppression of people of color, with adverse health consequences. Examples include residential segregatio…
Medicine (14 works) · Environmental health (11 works) · Public health (11 works) · Population (8 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (7 works) · Health equity (7 works) · Political science (7 works) · Socioeconomic status (7 works) · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations (6 works) · Gerontology (6 works)