Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Foreword ix
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction 1
6. Part I. A Divided City
7. Chapter One. Negro Mortality Rates in Chicago 19
8. Chapter Two. Selections from Mental Disorders in Urban Areas: An Ecological Study of Schizophrenia and Other Psychoses 34
9. Chapter Three. Selection from Black Metropolis: A Study of Negro Life in a Northern City 56
10. Chapter Four. Selection from Mama Might Be Better Off Dead: The Failure of Health Care in Urban America 66
11. Chapter Five. Selections from Great American City: Chicago and the Enduring Neighborhood Effect 78
12. Part II. The Health Gap
13. Chapter Six. Cancer Profi les from Several High- Risk Chicago Communities 105
14. Chapter Seven. Differing Birth Weight among Infants of U.S.- Born Blacks, African- Born Blacks, and U.S.- Born Whites 111
15. Chapter Eight. Variations in the Health Conditions of Six Chicago Community Areas 122
16. Chapter Nine. Demographic Characteristics and Survival with AIDS 135
17. Chapter Ten. The Racial Disparity in Breast Cancer Mortality 146
18. Chapter Eleven. Black Women’s Awareness of Breast Cancer Disparity and Perceptions of the Causes of Disparity 163
19. Chapter Twelve. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Hypertension Prevalence 173
20. Part III. Separate and Unequal Health Care
21. Chapter Thirteen. What Color Are Your Germs? 197
22. Chapter Fourteen. Letter to the President’s Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders 205
23. Chapter Fifteen. Racism in Red Blood Cells 209
24. Chapter Sixteen. The Uptown People’s Health Center, Chicago, Illinois 215
25. Chapter Seventeen. Transfers to a Public Hospital 226
26. Chapter Eighteen. Trauma Deserts 238
27. Part IV. Communities Matter
28. Chapter Nineteen. Social Support in Smoking Cessation among Black Women in Chicago Public Housing 257
29. Chapter Twenty. Life Expectancy, Economic Inequality, Homicide, and Reproductive Timing in Chicago Neighbourhoods 271
30. Chapter Twenty-One. Neighborhoods and Violent Crime 282
31. Chapter Twenty-Two. Urban Violence and African American Pregnancy Outcome 304
32. Chapter Twenty-Three. Social Capital and Neighborhood Mortality Rates in Chicago 313
33. Chapter Twenty-Four. Weathering 325
34. Chapter Twenty-Five. The Protective Effect of Community Factors on Childhood Asthma 346
35. Part V. Taking Action
36. Chapter Twenty-Six. Community Health in a Chicago Slum 371
37. Chapter Twenty-Seven. CeaseFire 379
38. Chapter Twenty-Eight. A Community Effort to Reduce the Black/White Breast Cancer Mortality Disparity in Chicago 386
39. Chapter Twenty-Nine. The Fight for a University of Chicago Adult Trauma Center 399
40. Chapter Thirty. Selections from Healthy Chicago 2.0: Partnering to Improve Health Equity, 2016– 2020 412
41. Conclusion 421
42. Suggestions for Further Reading 429
43. Author Index 431
44. Subject Index 435