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And to add to Steve’s points, a recent piece in the Lancet by Todd Meyers and Nancy Rose Hunt linking Detroit and its structural drivers of inequality/illness
into the broader global health debate:
http://www.thelancet.com/pdfs/journals/lancet/PIIS0140-6736%2814%2962270-4.pdf
Best wishes
Clare
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Steven Cummins
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Subject: Re: Detroit piece...
Hi all
An interesting read about one policy response to infant mortality but nonetheless ignores 30 years of US (and international) health
disparities research about structural, social and environmental determinants of health, the so called causes of the causes. See here for an early article by Link & Phelan (1995):
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/7560851
You may be interested to know that researchers at the Michigan universities (MSU, UM etc) have been working in this area for a long
time (since at least the early 1990s) primarily through the Detroit Community-Academic Urban Research Centrer
http://www.detroiturc.org/ but also through many other departments/schools. The DURC has a focus on the structural determinants of health and has been very effective with working with many community organisations.
I don't disagree with critique of the specific policy mentioned in the blog post but it implies that a focus on tackling the causes
of the causes is absent in Detroit. This is not the case, as there are many organisations that work on the structural determinants of health in Detroit (and wider MI) and the reduction of health inequalities eg:
http://www.healthequitymi.com/
Best wishes
Steve
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>>> "Jones, John P - (jpjones)" <[log in to unmask]>
04/02/2016 00:39 >>>
Colleagues,
Urbanists and others interested in Detroit might want to see this recent piece by my colleague Monica Capser, which
just appeared in the online magazine, metropolitiques.
Best wishes.
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John Paul Jones III
Dean, College of Social and Behavioral Sciences
Professor, School of Geography and Development
University of Arizona