Peer-reviewed articles
Monographs, technical reports, and other publications
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Braveman P, Gottlieb L, Francis D, Arkin E, Acker J. What Can the Health Care Sector do to Advance Health Equity? Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2019. |
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Acker J, Braveman P, Arkin E, Leviton L, Parsons J, Hobor G. Mass Incarceration Threatens Health Equity in America. Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2019. |
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Braveman P, Acker J, Arkin E, Proctor D, Gillman A, McGeary KA, Mallya G. Wealth Matters for Health Equity. Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2018. |
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Braveman P, Acker J, Arkin E, Bussel J, Wehr K, Proctor D. Early Childhood is Critical to Health Equity. Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2018. |
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Braveman P, Arkin E, Orleans T, Proctor D, and Plough A. Issue Brief 1: What Is Health Equity? And What Difference Does a Definition Make? Princeton, NJ: Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2017. |
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Edmonds AT, Braveman PA, Arkin E, Jutte DP. Making the Case for Linking Community Development and Health. Center on Social Disparities in Health and the Build Healthy Places Network. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, July 2015, 36 pages. |
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Braveman P, Egerter S, Arena K, Aslam R. Issue Brief 12: Early Childhood Experiences Shape Health and Well-Being Throughout Life. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, August 2014, 16 pages. |
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Woolf SH, Braveman P, Evans BF. The Health Implications of Reduced Food Stamp Eligibility: A Rapid-Cycle Background Report. Richmond, VA: Virginia Commonwealth University Center on Human Needs, 2013. |
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Braveman P and Egerter S. Overcoming Obstacles to Health in 2013 and Beyond. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, June 2013, 62 pages. |
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Braveman, P. Health in Europe—a view from across the Atlantic. The Lancet. 2013 Apr;381(9874):1257-59. (Invited commentary) |
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National Academies (US). Committee on Pediatric Health and Health Care Quality Measures. DeFriese, H. (Chair) Authors in alphabetical order: Braveman P, Brindis C et al. Child and Adolescent Health and Health Care Quality: Measuring What Matters. Washington, DC: National Academies Press, 2011. |
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Gottlieb L, Egerter S, Braveman P. Issue Brief 11: Health Impact Assessment: A Tool for Promoting Health in All Policies. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2011, 13 pages. |
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Egerter S, Barclay C, Grossman-Kahn R, Braveman P. Issue Brief 10: How Social Factors Shape Health: Violence, Social Disadvantage and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2011, 19 pages. |
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An J, Braveman P, Dekker M, Egerter S, Grossman-Kahn R. Issue Brief 9: Work, Workplaces and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2011, 20 pages. |
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Braveman P, Egerter S, An J, Williams D. Issue Brief 8: Neighborhoods and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2011, 11 pages. |
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Braveman P, Dekker M, Egerter S, Sadegh-Nobari T, Pollack C. Issue Brief 7: Housing and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2011, 11 pages. |
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Braveman P, Egerter S, An J, Williams D. Issue Brief 6: Race, Socioeconomic Factors, and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, April 2011, 16 pages. |
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Egerter S, Braveman P, Sadegh-Nobari T, Grossman-Kahn R, Dekker M. Issue Brief 5: Education and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, May 2011, 17 pages. |
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Braveman P, Egerter S, Barclay C. Issue Brief 4: Income, Wealth, and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, April 2011, 17 pages. |
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Egerter S, Braveman P, Barclay C. Issue Brief 3: How Social Factors Shape Health: Stress and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, March 2011, 14 pages. |
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Braveman P, Sadegh-Nobari T, Egerter S. Issue Brief 2: Early Childhood Experiences and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, March 2011, 10 pages. |
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Braveman P, Egerter S, Barclay C. Issue Brief 1: What Shapes Health-Related Behaviors? Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, March 2011, 12 pages. |
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Egerter S, Braveman P, Cubbin C, Dekker M, Sadegh-Nobari T, An J, Grossman-Kahn R. Reaching America’s Health Potential: A State-by-State Look at Adult Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, 2009. |
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Egerter S, Braveman P, Sadegh-Nobari T, Grossman-Kahn R., Dekker M. Issue Brief 6: Health & Education: Education Matters for Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 2009, 15 pages. |
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Braveman P, Egerter S, An J, Williams D. Issue Brief 5: Race and Socioeconomic Factors Affect Opportunities for Better Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, April 2009, 16 pages. |
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Egerter S, Dekker M, An J,Grossman-Kahn R, Braveman P. Issue Brief 4: Work and Health: Work Matters for Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, December 2008, 18 pages. |
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Egerter S, Braveman P, Pamuk E, Cubbin C, Dekker M, Pedregon V, Sadegh-Nobari T. America’s Health Starts With Healthy Children: How Do States Compare? Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, October 2008, 32 pages. |
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Cubbin C, Pedregon V, Egerter S, Braveman P. Issue Brief 3: Where We Live Matters for Our Health: Neighborhoods and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 2008, 11 pages. |
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Pollack C, Egerter S, Sadegh-Nobari T, Dekker M, Braveman P. Issue Brief 2: Where We Live Matters for Our Health: The Links Between Housing and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, September 2008, 12 pages. |
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Braveman P. Racial disparities at birth: The puzzle persists. Issues in Science and Technology (National Academy of Science), Winter 2008. |
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Braveman P and Egerter S. Issue Brief 1: Early Childhood Experiences and Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, June 10, 2008, 9 pages. |
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Braveman P and Egerter S. Overcoming Obstacles to Health. Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, February 28, 2008, 80 pages. |
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Braveman P. When do we know enough to recommend action? The need to be bold but not reckless. (Speakers Corner). J Epidemiol Community Health. 2007 Nov;61(11):931. |
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Braveman P. Do We Have Real Poverty in the United States of America? (Editorial). Prev Chronic Dis. 2007 Oct;4(4):A84. |
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Braveman P. We also need bold experiments: a response to Starfield’s “Commentary: Pathways of influence on equity in health.’ Soc Sci Med 2007;64(7):1363-6. |
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Braveman P. The question is NOT: 'Is race or class more important?' (Speakers Corner). J Epidemiol Community Health 2005;59(12):1029. |
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Gruskin S and Braveman P. Addressing social injustice in a human rights context. In: Levy B, Sidel V, eds. Social Injustice and Public Health. New York:Oxford University Press, 2005. |
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Egerter S, Marchi K Cubbin C, Braveman P. Disparities in Maternal and Infant Health in California: Are We Making Progress? Lessons from California. Washington DC; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2004. 23 pages. |
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Braveman P and Gruskin S. Health equity and human rights: What's the connection? In: Fox D and Scott-Samuel A eds. Human Rights, Equity, and Health. Proceedings from a meeting of the Health Equity Network held at the London School of Economics. March 28, 2003. London: The Nuffield Trust, 2004. 54 pages. |
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Braveman P, Marchi K, Sarnoff R, Egerter S, Rittenhouse D, Salganicoff A. Promoting Access to Prenatal Care: Lessons from the California Experience. Washington DC; Kaiser Family Foundation, 2003. 69 pages. A comprehensive report with analyses of population-based data sources. Published and disseminated widely by the Kaiser Family Foundation's Commission on Medicaid and the Uninsured. |
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Braveman P. Health, equity, human rights, and the invasion of Iraq (Speaker's Corner). J Epidemiol Community Health 2003;57(8):593. |
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Braveman P, Cubbin C. Optimal SES indicators cannot be prescribed across all outcomes (Letter to the editor). Am J Public Health 2003;93(1):12-3. |
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McCoy D, Shuka A, Braveman P, Ntuli A, Bambas A, Wirth M, Vega, J, Gwatkin D, Evans T, Naidoo P, Chowdury M. The Equity Gauge: Concepts, Principles, and Guidelines. Durban, South Africa: Global Equity Gauge Alliance and Health Systems Trust, March 2003. 30 pages. |
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Braveman P. MSJAMA. Invited commentary: Measuring health equity within countries: the challenge of limited information. JAMA 2002;288(13):1650. |
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Braveman, P. Invited review of Evans et al., Challenging Inequities in Health: from Ethics to Action. London: Oxford University Press, 2001. Bull World Health Organ 2002;80(2):170. |
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Braveman P. Priorities for research on equity in health. J Epidemiol Community Health 2002. (Published as a commentary along with articles by several others on the same topic.) |
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Braveman P. Invited round table discussion. Combining forces against inequity and poverty rather than splitting hairs. Bull World Health Organ 2000;78(1):78-79. |
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Braveman P. Invited review of Maisels MJ, Kring E, Length of stay, jaundice, and hospital readmission. Pediatrics 1998;101:995-8. In: Year 2000 Yearbook of Pediatrics, American Academy of Pediatrics, 1999. |
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Braveman P. Monitoring Equity in Health: A Policy-Oriented Approach in Low- and Middle-Income Countries. World Health Organization, Geneva, 1998 (WHO/CHS/HSS/98.1). (Indicators, data sources, and analytic methods for assessing social inequalities in health in lower-income countries), 95 pages. |
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Egerter S, Braveman P, Kunwar P, for the Secretary's Advisory Committee on Infant Mortality. First Report to U.S. Congress Responding to Mandates in Newborns’ and Mothers’ Health Protection Act of 1996. March 1998. |
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Braveman P, Egerter S, Marchi K, et al. Access to Maternity Care in California. CPS Policy Brief. California Policy Seminar, June 1997;9(2):1-8. (Full report published separately by the California Policy Seminar as a Policy Research Program Report, 1997, 43 pages.) |
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Braveman P, Tarimo E, Creese A. Equity in health and health care: a WHO/SIDA initiative. Geneva: World Health Organization (WHO), October 1996, 51 pages. (WHO monograph widely disseminated to international organizations and national health policy leaders) |
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Braveman P. Invited review of Luft HS, ed. HMOs and the Elderly. Ann Arbor, MI: Health Administration Press, 1994. J Public Health Policy 1996;17(3):367-70. |
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Braveman P. A framework for developing international research on equity in health and health care. (Prepared as the major discussion paper for an international meeting at WHO, Geneva, December 1995; document included detailed review of literature and discussion of methodological considerations in research on equity in health and health care). |
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Braveman P, Egerter S, Marchi K, Pearl M. Income and insurance of pregnant women in California. A report to the California Legislature based on a statewide postpartum survey. June 1995. |
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Braveman P. Invited review of Weissman JS, Epstein AM. Falling Through the Safety Net: Insurance Status and Access to Health Care. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1994. N Engl J Med 1994;331(21):1462. |
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Braveman P. Invited review of Morgan LM. Community participation in health: The politics of primary care in Costa Rica. New York, NY: Cambridge University Press, 1993. J Public Health Policy Summer 1994:124-8. |
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Braveman P, Bennett T. Information for Action: An Advocate's Guide to Maternal and Child Health Data. Washington, D.C.: Children's Defense Fund, 1993, 73 pages. |
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Braveman P. Invited review of Garfield R, Williams G. Health in Nicaragua: Primary care under changing regimes. New York, NY: Oxford University Press, 1992. J Public Health Policy Fall 1993:360-3. |
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Braveman P, Egerter S, Bennett T, Showstack J. Hospital resource allocation and insurance coverage (Letter to editor). JAMA 1991; 267(13):1778-9. |
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Braveman P. Invited review of Macfarlane A, Sefi S, Cordeiro M. Child Health: The Screening Tests. New York, NY: Oxford Medical Publications, 1989. World Health Forum 1990;11(2):218-219. |
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Braveman P. Adverse outcomes and lack of health insurance among newborns (Letter to editor). N Engl J Med 1990; Feb 8;322(6):406-7. |
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Braveman P, Showstack J, Browner W, Selby, J. Outcome Indicators for Programs to Reduce Adverse Outcomes of Diabetes in Pregnancy. Report prepared for CDC, December 1985. Also co-authored three additional CDC reports focusing on hypertension, amputations, and eye disease, respectively. (All four CDC reports were also published as UCSF IHPS monographs.) |
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Braveman P. Primary health care takes root in Nicaragua. World Health Forum 1985;6(4):368-372. |
Books and book chapters
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Braveman P, Egerter S, Mockenhaupt R. Beyond Medical Care: The Need to Address the Social Determinants of Health. Lead chapter in: Reynolds A, Temple J, and Rolnick A, eds., Health and Education in Early Childhood: Predictors, Interventions, and Policies. Cambridge University Press, 2015. |
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Braveman, P. International Human Rights Laws and Principles: Cornerstone for Defining Health Inequalities and Health Equity. In: Freeman M, Hawkes S, Bennett B, eds. The Law and Global Health. University College London, Oxford University Press, 2014. |
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Gruskin S and Braveman P. Addressing social injustice in a human rights context. In: Levy B, Sidel V, eds. Social Injustice and Public Health, Second Edition. New York: Oxford University Press, 2013. (Also first edition published in 2005.) |
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Woolf S, Braveman P. The Social and Ecological Determinants of Health. In: Scutchfield D, Holsinger JW et al., eds. Contemporary Public Health: Principles, Practice, and Policy. Kentucky University Press, 2013; pp 25-46 |
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Braveman, P. “Find the Best People and Support Them.” In: Birn, AE. Comrades in health: US health internationalists: abroad and at home. Rutgers University Press, 2012. |
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Braveman, P. Black-white disparities in birth outcomes: Is racism-related stress a missing piece of the puzzle? In: Lemelle A., et al. eds. Handbook of African American health. New York: Springer , 2011; pp. 155-163 |
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Braveman P. Health inequalities. In: Kris Heggenhougen and Stella Quah, editors International Encyclopedia of Public Health, Vol 3. Elsevier (San Diego: Academic Press) 2008; pp. 189-197 |
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Grumbach K, Braveman P, Adler N, Bindman A. Vulnerable Populations and Health Disparities: An Overview. In: King TE, Wheeler M, Fernandez A, Schillinger D, Bindman A, Grumbach K, Villela T, eds. Medical Management of Vulnerable & Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, Population. New York: McGraw-Hill Medical Publishing, 2006. |
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Braveman P. Measuring health inequalities: the politics of the World Health Report 2000. In: Hofrichter R, ed. Health and Social Justice: Politics, Ideology, and Inequity in the Distribution of Disease, Jossey-Bass, 2003. |
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Braveman P, Meyers A, Schlenker T, Wands C. Public health and war in Central America. In: Sidel V, Levy B, eds. War and Public Health. New York: Oxford University Press and the American Public Health Association, 1996. (Updated edition published by American Public Health Assoc., 2000) |
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Braveman P, Tarimo E. Screening in Primary Health Care. Geneva: World Health Organization, 1994. 190 pages.(Book published in English, Spanish, and French.) (Policy on preventive services in low-/middle-income countries, with a focus on equity considerations.) |
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Shore W, Mellin L, Braveman P. Adolescent health care. In: Taylor RB. Family Medicine Principles and Practice, Fourth edition. New York: Springer, 1993 (also third edition, 1988). |