Tina Sacks
Biographic Data
| ID | 6250895 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tina Sacks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tina |
| FAMILY NAME | Sacks |
| SIGNATURE | SACKS T |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2008 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
A Critical Theoretical Approach to Cancer Disparities
Breast cancer is the most commonly experienced cancer among women. Its high rates of incidence and survival mean that a number of women will live it for periods of their lifetimes. Group differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality occur by race and ethnicity. For example, while white women are slightly more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, Black women are 40% more likely to die from the disease. In this article, rather than foc…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Structural Competency
Targeting Health Disparities
Certain social/environmental factors put some groups at extraordinary risk for adverse health outcomes, creating health disparities. We present a downward causal model, originating at the population level and ending at disease, with psychological and behavioral responses linking the two. This approach identifies how specific social environments "get under the skin" to cause disease, illustrated with the disparity in mortality from aggressive prem…
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Targeting Health Disparities
Certain social/environmental factors put some groups at extraordinary risk for adverse health outcomes, creating health disparities. We present a downward causal model, originating at the population level and ending at disease, with psychological and behavioral responses linking the two. This approach identifies how specific social environments "get under the skin" to cause disease, illustrated with the disparity in mortality from aggressive prem…
Introduction to the Special Issue on Structural Competency
A Critical Theoretical Approach to Cancer Disparities
Breast cancer is the most commonly experienced cancer among women. Its high rates of incidence and survival mean that a number of women will live it for periods of their lifetimes. Group differences in breast cancer incidence and mortality occur by race and ethnicity. For example, while white women are slightly more likely to be diagnosed with breast cancer, Black women are 40% more likely to die from the disease. In this article, rather than foc…
Environmental health (2 works) · Health disparities and outcomes (2 works) · Health equity (2 works) · Medicine (2 works) · Population (2 works) · Psychology (2 works) · Public health (2 works) · Social determinants of health (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · BIM and Construction Integration (1 work)