Jedi public health: Co-creating an identity-safe culture to promote health equity

• Main Authors: Arline T. Geronimus (Author), Sherman A. James (Author), Mesmin Destin (Author), Louis F. Graham (Author), Mark L. Hatzenbuehler (Author), Mary C. Murphy (Author), Jay A. Pearson (Author), Amel Omari (Author), J. Phillip Thompson (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2016-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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The extent to which socially-assigned and culturally mediated social identity affects health depends on contingencies of social identity that vary across and within populations in day-to-day life. These contingencies are structurally rooted and health damaging inasmuch as they activate physiological...