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Reducing Disparities: Race, Class and the Social Determinants of Health

Reducing Disparities: Race, Class and the Social Determinants of Health Matern Child Health J (2011) 15:S1–S3 DOI 10.1007/s10995-011-0878-6 Reducing Disparities: Race, Class and the Social Determinants of Health Richard David Lynne Messer Published online: 8 September 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Environment impacts health for all species. The far- was launched [2]. This rate was slightly worse than rates reaching nature of this impact was brought into focus by reported in Sri Lanka or Panama at the time [3]. The US evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves, Jr., in his description Congress called on the NIH and its Office of Research on of fruit fly experiments in his book, The Emperor’s New Minority Health (later to become the National Institute of Clothes [1]. In these studies, Drosophila lived significantly Minority Health and Health Disparities) to launch a longer when kept at 20C than genetically-identical flies research effort specifically targeting the glaring problem of kept at 25C. But that’s not the most remarkable thing African American infant mortality in Washington, DC [4]. about these experiments. It turns out that the longevity Over the two decades since this project was launched, effect persists for multiple generations with no detectable although death rates for black and white infants have both changes in the http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Maternal and Child Health Journal Springer Journals

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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2011 by Springer Science+Business Media, LLC
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Medicine & Public Health; Public Health; Sociology, general; Population Economics; Pediatrics; Gynecology; Maternal and Child Health
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1092-7875
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1573-6628
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10.1007/s10995-011-0878-6
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21901367
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Matern Child Health J (2011) 15:S1–S3 DOI 10.1007/s10995-011-0878-6 Reducing Disparities: Race, Class and the Social Determinants of Health Richard David Lynne Messer Published online: 8 September 2011 Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011 Environment impacts health for all species. The far- was launched [2]. This rate was slightly worse than rates reaching nature of this impact was brought into focus by reported in Sri Lanka or Panama at the time [3]. The US evolutionary biologist Joseph Graves, Jr., in his description Congress called on the NIH and its Office of Research on of fruit fly experiments in his book, The Emperor’s New Minority Health (later to become the National Institute of Clothes [1]. In these studies, Drosophila lived significantly Minority Health and Health Disparities) to launch a longer when kept at 20C than genetically-identical flies research effort specifically targeting the glaring problem of kept at 25C. But that’s not the most remarkable thing African American infant mortality in Washington, DC [4]. about these experiments. It turns out that the longevity Over the two decades since this project was launched, effect persists for multiple generations with no detectable although death rates for black and white infants have both changes in the

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