R A Hahn
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 1961 |
|---|---|
| NOME | R A Hahn |
| PRENOMES | R A |
| SOBRENOME | Hahn |
| ASSINATURA | HAHN R A |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Washington |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3197-2393 |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 209 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 45 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 1973 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 7 |
School Segregation Reduces Life Expectancy in the U.S. Black Population by 9 Years
Despite the 1954 Brown versus Board of Education Supreme Court decision, school segregation of U.S. blacks persists. Given the powerful role of education as a social determinant, health consequences of school segregation are likely to be substantial. This study indicates the causal link between school segregation and high school graduation and the association of graduation and life expectancy. It estimates the reduction in life expectancy associa…
Access to Social Determinants of Health and Determinant Inequity for the Black Population in US States in the Early Twenty-First Century
This analysis develops indices of (1) modifiable social determinants of health and (2) social determinant inequity and applies the indices to the black population in US states. It uses state data available between 2013 and 2018 stratified by black and white race on six social determinants covering a range of topics (high school non-completion, incarceration, non-home ownership, poverty, unemployment, and voter non-registration). Determinants are …
Why a Right to Health Makes No Sense, and What Does
There is a widely held belief in a universal right to the highest attainable standard of health. This essay shows how this right is conceptually unclear, unattainable, and a distraction from a more concrete and attainable right: a right to equitable access to available resources for health (RARH), including equitable access to the social determinants of health. It clarifies conceptual and theoretical issues in the RARH: its underlying theory root…
Two Paths to Health in All Policies
Two Paths to Health in All Policies: The Traditional Public Health Path and the Path of Social Determinants Robert A. Hahn PhD, MPH Affiliation Robert A. Hahn is with the Department of Anthropology, Emory University, Atlanta, GA.CopyRightCorrespondence should be sent to Robert A. Hahn, PhD, MPH, 936 Austin Ave, Atlanta, GA 30307 (e-mail: [email protected]). Reprints can be ordered at http://www.ajph.org by clicking the “Reprints” link. https://do…
Civil rights as determinants of public health and racial and ethnic health equity
This essay examines how civil rights and their implementation have affected and continue to affect the health of racial and ethnic minority populations in the United States. Civil rights are characterized as social determinants of health. A brief review of US history indicates that, particularly for Blacks, Hispanics, and American Indians, the longstanding lack of civil rights is linked with persistent health inequities. Civil rights history sinc…
Education Improves Public Health and Promotes Health Equity
This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the argument that educational programs and policies are crucial public health interventions. Concepts of education and health are developed and linked, and we review a wide range of empirical studies to clarify pathways of linkage and explore implications. Basic educational expertise and skills, including fundamental knowledge, reasoning ability, emotional self-regulation, and i…
U Gotta C
The Effectiveness of Limiting Alcohol Outlet Density As a Means of Reducing Excessive Alcohol Consumption and Alcohol-Related Harms
The Scientific Basis for Law as a Public Health Tool
Systematic reviews are generating valuable scientific knowledge about the impact of public health laws, but this knowledge is not readily accessible to policy makers. We identified 65 systematic reviews of studies on the effectiveness of 52 public health laws: 27 of those laws were found effective, 23 had insufficient evidence to judge effectiveness, 1 was harmful, and 1 was found to be ineffective. This is a valuable, scientific foundation—that …
Going Where No Anthropologist Has Gone Before
Shirley FIske is contributing editor of "Anthropology Works", the AAA Committee on Practicing, Applied and Public Interest Anthropology column in Anthropology News
The effectiveness of early childhood home visitation in preventing violence
Health risk aversion, health risk affinity, and socio-economic position in the USA
Understanding the distribution of behavioural risk factors in the population can improve health promotion. This article reports on a research project which analysed the distribution of numbers of behavioural risk factors among US adults, by race/Hispanic origin, sex, and age. Income, education, and region were examined as potential confounders in observed patterns. The B ehavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) data for 1993 were used to…
Use of the terms ‘race’, ‘ethnicity’, and ‘national origins’
OBJECTIVES: To assess the use of the categories of race, ethnicity, and national origin in recent public health research. METHODS: We reviewed all research articles on human populations published in the American Journal of Public Health from January 1980 through December 1989. Articles were classified by (1) mention of the categories, (2) use of the categories, (3) presence of explicit definitions, and (4) definitional criteria. RESULTS: Specific…
Sickness and Healing
Eileen Basker Memorial Prize
What should behavioral scientists be doing about Aids
The empty kit
Race and the prevalence of syphilis seroreactivity in the United States population
We used the 1978 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence of positive syphilis serologies in the US population. Analysis of risk markers--gender, age, marital status, education, income, and residence--indicates that all except gender are associated with syphilis seroreactivity, independent of race. Controlling for associated risk markers, the Black-White odds ratio of syphilis seroreactivity is 4.7 (95% CI = 2.7,…
Nulliparity, decade of first birth, and breast cancer in Connecticut cohorts, 1855 to 1945
Risk of breast cancer increases with age at first birth, and is lower in women who bear their first children while young than in nulliparous women. While previous studies have investigated risk of breast cancer in birth cohorts by examining partial aspects of cohort childbearing, the present ecological study assesses total cohort childbearing risk in Connecticut women born between 1855 and 1945. In each cohort, the proportion of women nulliparous…
The Woman in the Body
The Anthropology of Birth in Five U.S. Ethnic Populations
Divisions of Labor
During the 20th century the developed world has witnessed a fundamental revolution in the conduct of birth. Its place has moved almost entirely from domestic to medical settings, while obstetrical professionals have increasingly assumed control of its events. Powerful artifacts and procedures employed in the conduct of birth have proliferated concurrently and appear to exert a command of their own. This obstetrical revolution has occurred in a cu…
Patient, Technique, and Voice in American Obstetrics
Physicians of Western Medicine
Section I: Introductions.- 1. Among the Physicians: Encounter, Exchange and Transformation.- 2. Including the Physician in Healer-Centered Research: Retrospect and Prospect.- Section II: Core Medicine.- 3. A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist.- Section III: Medical Specialties.- 4. Models and Practice in Medicine: Menopause as Syndrome or Life Transition?.- 5. Mary Patient as Emergent Symbol on a Pediatrics Ward: The Objectifica…
The Recording of Demographic Information on Death Certificates
The authors recommend that the importance of demographic data and the instructions for data collection be clarified for funeral directors, that standard data collection worksheets be developed, and that training videos be developed
Biomedical Practice and Anthropological Theory
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Perspectives of the Placebo Phenomenon
Mindscapes and Science Theories [and Comments and Reply]
Four causal metatypes in science theories correspond to four cognitive/cogitative/perceptual types which vary from individual to individual. In any given culture, all individual types exist, but their percentage distribution varies from culture to culture. The four metatypes are (1) nonreciprocal causality (either probabilistic or deterministic), (2) independent events as most basic, (3) reciprocal causal loops, change-counteracting (either proba…
Understanding Beliefs
The essay sketches a comprehensive methodology for the study of beliefs and belief systems. It considers the situation of the anthropologist studying the beliefs of natives of whose language and society he is relatively ignorant, but its conclusions are thought to be applicable as well in understanding the beliefs of those speaking the same language and living in the same society. The essay elaborates and recommends a conception of beliefs as gen…
Culture-bound syndromes unbound
Divisions of Labor
During the 20th century the developed world has witnessed a fundamental revolution in the conduct of birth. Its place has moved almost entirely from domestic to medical settings, while obstetrical professionals have increasingly assumed control of its events. Powerful artifacts and procedures employed in the conduct of birth have proliferated concurrently and appear to exert a command of their own. This obstetrical revolution has occurred in a cu…
Between Two Worlds Physicians as Patients
Between the last full moon and this, in the space of a single lunar month, I had come near to death, and been saved at the last moment; had had my mangled flesh sewn together and united; had "lost" my leg (for an eternity?) in a limbo of non-feeling; had recovered it, as by a miracle, when recovery had seemed impossible. I had had the foundations of my inner world shaken-nay, I had had them utterly destroyed
What should behavioral scientists be doing about Aids
Aboriginal American Psychiatric Theories
Race and the prevalence of syphilis seroreactivity in the United States population
We used the 1978 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey to examine the prevalence of positive syphilis serologies in the US population. Analysis of risk markers--gender, age, marital status, education, income, and residence--indicates that all except gender are associated with syphilis seroreactivity, independent of race. Controlling for associated risk markers, the Black-White odds ratio of syphilis seroreactivity is 4.7 (95% CI = 2.7,…
Patient, Technique, and Voice in American Obstetrics
The Recording of Demographic Information on Death Certificates
The authors recommend that the importance of demographic data and the instructions for data collection be clarified for funeral directors, that standard data collection worksheets be developed, and that training videos be developed
The Scientific Basis for Law as a Public Health Tool
Systematic reviews are generating valuable scientific knowledge about the impact of public health laws, but this knowledge is not readily accessible to policy makers. We identified 65 systematic reviews of studies on the effectiveness of 52 public health laws: 27 of those laws were found effective, 23 had insufficient evidence to judge effectiveness, 1 was harmful, and 1 was found to be ineffective. This is a valuable, scientific foundation—that …
Nulliparity, decade of first birth, and breast cancer in Connecticut cohorts, 1855 to 1945
Risk of breast cancer increases with age at first birth, and is lower in women who bear their first children while young than in nulliparous women. While previous studies have investigated risk of breast cancer in birth cohorts by examining partial aspects of cohort childbearing, the present ecological study assesses total cohort childbearing risk in Connecticut women born between 1855 and 1945. In each cohort, the proportion of women nulliparous…
Abstracts and Reviews
Understanding Beliefs
The essay sketches a comprehensive methodology for the study of beliefs and belief systems. It considers the situation of the anthropologist studying the beliefs of natives of whose language and society he is relatively ignorant, but its conclusions are thought to be applicable as well in understanding the beliefs of those speaking the same language and living in the same society. The essay elaborates and recommends a conception of beliefs as gen…
Abstracts and Reviews
Abstracts and Reviews
Ethnology
Aboriginal American Psychiatric Theories
Cuban Medicine . Ross Danielson
General and Theoretical
Mindscapes and Science Theories [and Comments and Reply]
Four causal metatypes in science theories correspond to four cognitive/cogitative/perceptual types which vary from individual to individual. In any given culture, all individual types exist, but their percentage distribution varies from culture to culture. The four metatypes are (1) nonreciprocal causality (either probabilistic or deterministic), (2) independent events as most basic, (3) reciprocal causal loops, change-counteracting (either proba…
On the rational distribution of rationality
Health for the Whole Person
Foundations of Medical Anthropology
The Behavioral and Social Sciences and the Practice of Medicine . George U. Balis
Treat the patient, not the lab? Internal medicine and the concept of ?Person
Physicians of Western medicine
Concepts of Health and Disease
Perspectives of the Placebo Phenomenon
Biomedical Practice and Anthropological Theory
Infrastructures are material forms that allow for the possibility of exchange over space. They are the physical networks through which goods, ideas, waste, power, people, and finance are trafficked. In this article I trace the range of anthropological ...Read More
Political Anatomy of the Body
Culture-bound syndromes unbound
Between Two Worlds Physicians as Patients
Between the last full moon and this, in the space of a single lunar month, I had come near to death, and been saved at the last moment; had had my mangled flesh sewn together and united; had "lost" my leg (for an eternity?) in a limbo of non-feeling; had recovered it, as by a miracle, when recovery had seemed impossible. I had had the foundations of my inner world shaken-nay, I had had them utterly destroyed
Physicians of Western Medicine
Section I: Introductions.- 1. Among the Physicians: Encounter, Exchange and Transformation.- 2. Including the Physician in Healer-Centered Research: Retrospect and Prospect.- Section II: Core Medicine.- 3. A World of Internal Medicine: Portrait of an Internist.- Section III: Medical Specialties.- 4. Models and Practice in Medicine: Menopause as Syndrome or Life Transition?.- 5. Mary Patient as Emergent Symbol on a Pediatrics Ward: The Objectifica…
The Anthropology of Birth in Five U.S. Ethnic Populations
Divisions of Labor
During the 20th century the developed world has witnessed a fundamental revolution in the conduct of birth. Its place has moved almost entirely from domestic to medical settings, while obstetrical professionals have increasingly assumed control of its events. Powerful artifacts and procedures employed in the conduct of birth have proliferated concurrently and appear to exert a command of their own. This obstetrical revolution has occurred in a cu…
Patient, Technique, and Voice in American Obstetrics
The empty kit
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