Poverty, Housing, and the Rural Slum
Policies and the Production of Inequities, Past and Present
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 11030718 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah M Ramirez (Sarah M. Ramirez is with the Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, and the Tulare County Department of Public Health, Visalia, CA. Don Villarejo is a consultant for the California Institute for Rural Studies, Davis.), Don Villarejo (Sarah M. Ramirez is with the Research Center, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, and the Tulare County Department of Public Health, Visalia, CA. Don Villarejo is a consultant for the California Institute for Rural Studies, Davis.) |
| Year | 2012 |
| Volume | 102 |
| Issue | 9 |
| Pages | 1664-1675 |
| Publication date | 2012-09-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048 |
| Publisher | American Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.2105/ajph.2011.300864 |
| PMID | 22813088 |
| PMCID | PMC3482029 |
| OpenAlex | W1990524804 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 2 |
We studied historical materials to examine the conditions that gave rise to California's rural slums, the consequences of their emergence, and how interpretations of housing, health, and welfare policies by government officials, and public health officials in particular, produced health inequities for residents of these communities. For more than a century, successive groups of immigrants and domestic migrant laborers have worked on California's farms and faced numerous challenges, among them a lack of safe and affordable housing, poor working conditions, and denial of public services. Although these experiences are not new, nor are they unique to agricultural workers, they illustrate a longer history in which inequities and injustices have been rooted in the exploitation and disposability of labor. Ameliorating or even redressing inequities will require understanding the social determinants of health through ecological approaches that can overcome the historical, social, and political causes of inequity
Development economics · Economic growth · Economics · Environmental health · Government (linguistics) · Health care · Health equity · Political science · Population · Poverty · Public health · Slum · Welfare · Environmental Justice and Health Disparities · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Medicine · Urban, Neighborhood, and Segregation Studies
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2025 (11) |
| Highly cited | No |