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Epidemiologic Reviews Advance Access originally published online on October 11, 2009
Epidemiologic Reviews 2009 31(1):1-6; doi:10.1093/epirev/mxp010
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Epidemiologic Reviews © The Author 2009. Published by the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health. All rights reserved. For permissions, please e-mail: journals.permissions@oxfordjournals.org.

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Epidemiologic Research on Health Disparities: Some Thoughts on History and Current Developments

Sherman A. James

Correspondence to Dr. Sherman A. James, Sanford School of Public Policy, Duke University, Box 90245, Durham, NC 27708 (e-mail: sherman.james{at}duke.edu).

accepted for publication September 11, 2009.

In this introduction to volume 31 of Epidemiologic Reviews, the author traces the history of health disparities research in epidemiology and situates the 10 review articles comprising this edition within this history. With the aid of a conceptual model describing the key determinants of health disparities, he offers several suggestions for improving future epidemiologic research on health disparities.

continental population groups • health status disparities • prejudice • public health • residence characteristics • social class

NHOPI(s), Native Hawaiians and other Pacific Islander(s) • SEP, socioeconomic position


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