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Adler, N. E., & Newman, K. (2002). Socioeconomic Disparities In Health: Pathways And Policies. Health Affairs, 21(2), 60-76.
 
Braveman, P., Cubbin, C., Marchi, K., Egerter, S., & Chavez, G. (2001). Measuring socioeconomic status/position in studies of racial/ethnic disparities: maternal and infant health. Public Health Reports (Washington, D.C. : 1974), 116(5), 449-63.
 
Siegel, R., Ward, E., Brawley, O., & Jemal, A. (2011). The Impact of Eliminating Socioeconomic and Racial Disparities on Premature Cancer Deaths. A Cancer Journal for Clinicians, (61), 212-236.
 
Shavers, V. L. (2007). Measurement of socioeconomic status in health disparities research.
Journal of the National Medical Association, 99(9), 1013-23.
 
Piccolo, R. S., Pearce, N., Araujo, A. B., & McKinlay, J. B. (2014). The contribution of biogeographical ancestry and socioeconomic status to racial/ethnic disparities in type 2 diabetes mellitus results from Boston Area Community Health Survey. Annals of Epidemology
 
Fiscella, K., & Williams, D. R. (2004). Health disparities based on socioeconomic inequities: implications for urban health care. Academic Medicine. Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges, 79(12), 1139-47.
 
Nazroo JY. (20032). The Structuring of Ethnic Inequalities in Health: Economic Position, Racial Discrimination, and Racism. American Journal of Public Health 93(2):277-284.
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