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According to Wikipedia, Thomas A. LaVeist is dean and Weatherhead Presidential Chair at the School of Public Health and Tropical Medicine at Tulane University in New Orleans, Louisiana. He was previously chairman of the Department of Health Policy and Management at the George Washington University, Milken Institute School of Public Health. He focuses mainly on the development of policy and interventions to address race disparities in the health field.

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Attitudes about Racism, Medical Mistrust, and Satisfaction with Care among African American and White Cardiac Patients (2000) (814)
Race and Trust in the Health Care System (2003) (683)
Is doctor-patient race concordance associated with greater satisfaction with care? (2002) (611)
Health disparities and health equity: the issue is justice. (2011) (583)
Health risk and inequitable distribution of liquor stores in African American neighborhood. (2000) (389)
Beyond dummy variables and sample selection: what health services researchers ought to know about race as a variable. (1994) (355)
Mistrust of health care organizations is associated with underutilization of health services. (2009) (354)
Race and trust in the health care system. (2003) (346)
Disentangling race and socioeconomic status: A key to understanding health inequalities (2005) (341)
Segregation, poverty, and empowerment: health consequences for African Americans. (1993) (315)
The legacy of Tuskegee and trust in medical care: is Tuskegee responsible for race differences in mistrust of medical care? (2005) (310)
Racial differences in attitudes toward professional mental health care and in the use of services. (2000) (299)
Race/ethnicity, the social environment, and health. (1996) (292)
Excess risk of chronic kidney disease among African-American versus white subjects in the United States: a population-based study of potential explanatory factors. (2002) (289)
Place, not race: disparities dissipate in southwest Baltimore when blacks and whites live under similar conditions. (2011) (283)
Disparities in diabetes: the nexus of race, poverty, and place. (2014) (263)
Estimating the Economic Burden of Racial Health Inequalities in the United States (2011) (241)
Health inequalities: trends, progress, and policy. (2012) (240)
The Association of Doctor-Patient Race Concordance with Health Services Utilization (2003) (238)
The influence of race and religion on abstinence from alcohol, cigarettes and marijuana among adolescents. (2003) (238)
Perceived Discrimination and Adherence to Medical Care in a Racially Integrated Community (2007) (234)
Patient Reports of Preventable Problems and Harms in Primary Health Care (2004) (226)
Healthy aging in neighborhoods of diversity across the life span (HANDLS): overcoming barriers to implementing a longitudinal, epidemiologic, urban study of health, race, and socioeconomic status. (2010) (215)
Understanding disparities in donor behavior: race and gender differences in willingness to donate blood and cadaveric organs. (2002) (203)
The Economic Burden of Health Inequalities in the United States (2009) (197)
Determinants of willingness to donate living related and cadaveric organs: identifying opportunities for intervention (2002) (186)
Racial/ethnic differences in attitudes toward seeking professional mental health services. (2001) (183)
Patient trust‐in‐physician and race are predictors of adherence to medical management in inflammatory bowel disease (2009) (173)
"Race" in the epidemiologic literature: an examination of the American Journal of Epidemiology, 1921-1990. (1991) (168)
The Political Empowerment and Health Status of African-Americans: Mapping a New Territory (1992) (165)
The contribution of sociodemographic, medical, and attitudinal factors to blood donation among the general public (2002) (162)
Neighborhood characteristics and mental health among African Americans and whites living in a racially integrated urban community. (2007) (154)
Race, Medical Mistrust, and Segregation in Primary Care as Usual Source of Care: Findings from the Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities Study (2016) (143)
Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States (2005) (137)
Environmental and Socio-Economic Factors as Contributors to Racial Disparities in Diabetes Prevalence (2009) (136)
Social context explains race disparities in obesity among women (2010) (124)
Social context as an explanation for race disparities in hypertension: findings from the Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities (EHDIC) Study. (2008) (122)
Racial segregation and longevity among African Americans: an individual-level analysis. (2003) (120)
The structure of informal care: are there differences by race? (1995) (120)
Race of physician and satisfaction with care among African-American patients. (2002) (113)
Prevalence and Patterns of Discrimination among U.S. Health Care Consumers (2003) (113)
Intersections of ethnicity and social class in provider advice regarding reproductive health. (2007) (110)
Whole body donation for medical science: A population‐based study (2004) (106)
Relative Roles of Race Versus Socioeconomic Position in Studies of Health Inequalities: A Matter of Interpretation (2018) (101)
Race, ethnicity, and health: a public health reader. (2013) (100)
Medical mistrust influences black women's level of engagement in BRCA 1/2 genetic counseling and testing. (2013) (99)
National Institutes of Health State-of-the-Science Conference Statement: Enhancing Use and Quality of Colorectal Cancer Screening (2010) (95)
On the Study of Race, Racism, and Health: A Shift from Description to Explanation (2000) (93)
Race, Ethnicity, and Health (2003) (92)
Racial and geographic variations in colectomy rates among hospitalized ulcerative colitis patients. (2006) (92)
Overcoming confounding of race with socio-economic status and segregation to explore race disparities in smoking. (2007) (90)
Black/white differences in prenatal care utilization: an assessment of predisposing and enabling factors. (1995) (88)
Race/Ethnicity and hypertension: the role of social support. (2010) (86)
Integrating the 3Ds—Social Determinants, Health Disparities, and Health-Care Workforce Diversity (2014) (86)
Race and health insurance are predictors of hospitalized Crohn's disease patients undergoing bowel resection (2007) (85)
Race disparities in cardiovascular disease risk factors within socioeconomic status strata. (2017) (82)
Exploring Health Disparities in Integrated Communities: Overview of the EHDIC Study (2007) (81)
Racial Disparities in Utilization of Specialist Care and Medications in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2010) (79)
Extreme Social Isolation, Use of Community-Based Senior Support Services, and Mortality Among African American Elderly Women (1997) (77)
Vicarious Racism and Vigilance During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Mental Health Implications Among Asian and Black Americans (2021) (77)
Segregation and Disparities in Health Services Use (2009) (77)
Health Behaviors and All-Cause Mortality in African American Men (2013) (69)
Alcohol Outlets and Violent Crime in Washington D.C. (2010) (68)
Self-sufficiency at ages 27 to 33 years: factors present between birth and 18 years that predict educational attainment among children born to inner-city families. (1997) (68)
Perceived racism and self and system blame attribution: consequences for longevity. (2001) (67)
Do hospitals provide lower-quality care to minorities than to whites? (2008) (67)
Racial Disparities in Access to Cardiac Rehabilitation (2006) (63)
THE RELATIONSHIPS AMONG VIGILANT COPING STYLE, RACE, AND DEPRESSION. (2014) (62)
Achieving health equity by design. (2015) (55)
Explaining Racial Disparities in Obesity Among Men (2015) (54)
NIH state-of-the-science conference statement: Enhancing use and quality of colorectal cancer screening. (2010) (54)
Segregation, Poverty, and Mortality in Urban African Americans (1999) (53)
Physician referral patterns and race differences in receipt of coronary angiography. (2002) (53)
Economic Burden of Men’s Health Disparities in the United States (2013) (52)
Accelerated Health Declines among African Americans in the USA (2016) (52)
Dollar for Dollar: Racial and ethnic inequalities in health and health-related outcomes among persons with very high income. (2017) (50)
High Levels of Medical Mistrust Are Associated With Low Quality of Life Among Black and White Men With Prostate Cancer. (2017) (44)
Gender differences in body image and health perceptions among graduating seniors from a historically black college. (2005) (44)
The cardiac access longitudinal study. A study of access to invasive cardiology among African American and white patients. (2003) (41)
Association Between Race, Place, and Preventive Health Screenings Among Men (2013) (41)
Data sources for aging research on racial and ethnic groups. (1995) (39)
The Effect of Religious Service Attendance on Race Differences in Depression: Findings from the EHDIC-SWB Study (2012) (38)
Race, Social and Environmental Conditions, and Health Behaviors in Men (2015) (38)
The College Health and Wellness Study: Baseline Correlates of Overweight among African Americans (2006) (37)
Women's perspectives on family planning service quality: an exploration of differences by race, ethnicity and language. (2009) (36)
Explaining Racial Differences in Receipt of Coronary Angiography: The Role of Physician Referral and Physician Specialty (2003) (36)
Examination of race disparities in physical inactivity among adults of similar social context. (2014) (36)
Subjective health status as a determinant of mortality among African-American elders. (1998) (36)
The effect of social environment on treatment outcomes in outpatient substance misuse treatment organizations: does race really matter? (1996) (33)
Disentangling Race, Poverty, and Place in Disparities in Physical Activity (2019) (32)
Disentangling Race and Social Context in Understanding Disparities in Chronic Conditions among Men (2014) (32)
The Relationship Between Religious Coping Style and Anxiety over Breast Cancer in African American Women (2004) (31)
Segregation, civil rights, and health disparities: the legacy of African American physicians and organized medicine, 1910-1968. (2009) (31)
Measuring and explaining racial and ethnic differences in willingness to donate live kidneys in the United States (2013) (30)
Racial Disparity in Time Between First Diagnosis and Initial Treatment of Prostate Cancer. (2016) (30)
The inequitable distribution of tobacco outlet density: the role of income in two Black Mid-Atlantic geopolitical areas. (2016) (30)
Creating a segregated medical profession: African American physicians and organized medicine, 1846-1910. (2009) (30)
Racial Segregation, Income Inequality, and Mortality in US Metropolitan Areas (2011) (29)
A methodological note on modeling the effects of race: the case of psychological distress (2008) (28)
Minority health status in adulthood: the middle years of life. (2000) (28)
The Sociobiologic Integrative Model (SBIM): Enhancing the Integration of Sociobehavioral, Environmental, and Biomolecular Knowledge in Urban Health and Disparities Research (2007) (28)
Simulating the Effects of Poverty on the Race Disparity in Postneonatal Mortality (1990) (28)
The Responsibility Continuum: Never Primary, Coresident and Caregiver—Heterogeneity in the African-American Grandmother Experience (2005) (27)
Racial and Ethnic Approaches to Community Health (REACH) 2010 (2006) (24)
The utilization of parenteral nutrition during the in‐patient management of inflammatory bowel disease in the United States: a national survey (2007) (24)
The COA360: A Tool for Assessing the Cultural Competency of Healthcare Organizations (2008) (23)
Racial Segregation, Income Inequality, and Mortality in US Metropolitan Areas (2011) (22)
Racial/Ethnic Disparities in the Prevalence of Selected Chronic Diseases Among US Air Force Members, 2008 (2012) (22)
Do Minority Patients Use Lower Quality Hospitals? (2011) (22)
NIH state-of-the-science conference statement (2010) (21)
Perceived Racial Discrimination and Mental Health in Low-Income, Urban-Dwelling Whites (2013) (21)
Racial and geographic disparities in the use of parenteral nutrition among inflammatory bowel disease inpatients diagnosed with malnutrition in the United States. (2009) (21)
Black/White racial disparities in health: a cross-country comparison of Canada and the United States. (2011) (21)
The Theory of Planned Behavior and Intention to Repeat Mammography Among African-American Women (2003) (20)
Hospitalizations for inflammatory bowel disease: Profile of the uninsured in the United States (2009) (20)
Disparities in alcohol use: does race matter as much as place? (2012) (20)
Racial disparities in hypertension awareness and management: are there differences among African Americans and Whites living under similar social conditions? (2014) (19)
Racial Disparities in Disability Among Older Adults (2014) (18)
Assessment of risk factors, and racial and ethnic differences in hepatocellular carcinoma (2020) (18)
Making the Case for a Qualitative Study of Medical Errors in Primary Care (2003) (17)
Exploring racial differences in the obesity gender gap. (2015) (17)
Black educational advantage in the inner city (2001) (16)
Differences in Obesity Among Men of Diverse Racial and Ethnic Background (2017) (16)
The Association Between Educational Attainment and Diabetes Among Men in the United States (2014) (16)
Coping, Discrimination, and Physical Health Conditions Among Predominantly Poor, Urban African Americans: Implications for Community-Level Health Services (2019) (15)
The Role of Marital Status in Physical Activity Among African American and White Men (2016) (15)
Religious Coping and Types and Sources of Information Used in Making Prostate Cancer Treatment Decisions (2017) (14)
Racial discrimination, John Henryism coping, and behavioral health conditions among predominantly poor, urban African Americans: Implications for community-level opioid problems and mental health services. (2019) (14)
Race is a predictor of in-hospital mortality after cholecystectomy, especially in those with portal hypertension. (2008) (14)
Addressing health inequalities in the United States: Key data trends and policy action (2013) (14)
Race, Vigilant Coping Strategy, and Hypertension in an Integrated Community (2018) (13)
The Role of Social Context in Racial Disparities in Self-Rated Health (2018) (13)
Race, gender, and educational advantage in the inner city (2002) (13)
Distinguishing the Race-Specific Effects of Income Inequality and Mortality in U.S. Metropolitan Areas (2014) (12)
The Quality of Surgical and Pneumonia Care in Minority-Serving and Racially Integrated Hospitals. (2015) (12)
Prevalence and Correlates of Major Depressive Symptoms among Black Men with Prostate Cancer. (2017) (11)
Socioeconomic status and psychological distress: The impact of financial aid on economic problem severity (1989) (11)
Higher expression of SATB2 in hepatocellular carcinoma of African Americans determines more aggressive phenotypes than those of Caucasian Americans (2019) (11)
The Contribution of Social and Environmental Factors to Race Differences in Dental Services Use (2015) (11)
Donor designation: racial and ethnic differences in US nondesignators’ preferred methods for disclosing intent to donate organs (2011) (11)
Factors Associated with Men’s Assessment of Prostate Cancer Treatment Choice (2016) (11)
Health Status among Black Canadians: Results from a National Survey (2013) (10)
Health Insurance and Chronic Conditions in Low-Income Urban Whites (2014) (10)
Cross-country comparisons of racial/ethnic inequalities in health (2009) (10)
Defining health and health care disparities and examining disparities across the life span. (2013) (9)
Medical Mistrust and Self-efficacy Influence Black Women’s Level of Engagement in BRCA1/2 Genetic Counseling and Testing (2013) (9)
Psychometric Properties of the Medical Mistrust Index (MMI) in Latina Immigrants (2019) (9)
400 Years of Inequality Since Jamestown of 1619. (2019) (8)
The Role of Social Support in Moderating the Relationship between Race and Hypertension in a Low-Income, Urban, Racially Integrated Community (2020) (8)
Vital status in the National Panel Survey of Black Americans: a test of the National Death Index among African Americans. (1996) (8)
Cancer Prevention Behaviors in Low-Income Urban Whites: An Understudied Problem (2009) (8)
Book Review: Race, Ethnicity and Health: A Public Health Reader. Edited by Thomas A. LaVeist. Jossey-Bass, San Francisco, 2002. 701 pp. $65.00 (2004) (8)
Race differences in mobility status among prostate cancer survivors: The role of socioeconomic status. (2020) (6)
Minority Health Status in Adulthood: The Middle Years (2000) (6)
Genetic Variants in Platelet Factor 4 Modulate Inflammatory and Platelet Activation Biomarkers (2012) (6)
COVID-19 and Routine Childhood and Adolescent Immunizations: Evidence from Louisiana Medicaid (2021) (5)
Neighborhood Police Encounters, Health, And Violence In A Southern City (2022) (4)
Religious Coping and Quality of Life Among Black and White Men With Prostate Cancer (2020) (4)
Community-based Health Preferences for Proctocolectomy: A Race Comparison (2008) (4)
Vulnerability and Resilience: Use and Misuse of These Terms in the Public Health Discourse. (2021) (4)
The Effects of Mother’s Marital Status on Adolescent and Young Adult Health and Economic Well-Being Among African Americans (2010) (4)
Community Characteristics are Associated with Blood Pressure Levels in a Racially Integrated Community (2015) (3)
Cockroach exposure and perceived stress interact to predict clinical outcomes in childhood asthma (2021) (3)
Disentangling Race and Place in Depressive Symptoms in Men (2019) (2)
Addressing Health Disparities: A Conversation With Thomas LaVeist, PhD, Director of the Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health (2011) (2)
Katrina's Lesson: Time to Imagine an After COVID-19. (2020) (2)
Patient trust-in-physician and race are predictors of adherence to medical management in Inflammatory Bowel Disease: O-0014. (2008) (2)
Pre-COVID-19 Disparities in Telemedicine Use Among Louisiana Medicaid Beneficiaries. (2022) (2)
Race Differences in Care for Heart Disease: Implications for Patient Attitudes and Future Health Behavior (2002) (2)
The Association Between Perceived Racial Discrimination and Hypertension in a Low-Income, Racially Integrated Urban Community (2020) (2)
Racial disparities in utilization of specialist care and medications in inflammatory bowel disease: P-0064. (2009) (2)
Disparities in Telemedicine Use Among Louisiana Medicaid Beneficiaries During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2023) (1)
Pathways to Progress in Eliminating Racial Disparities in Health (2003) (1)
Advancing understanding of racial and ethnic inequalities in injury research (2012) (1)
Association between state mandate of contraceptive insurance coverage and infant mortality in the United States, 2001 (2004) (1)
The Relationship Between Religious Coping Style and Anxiety over Breast Cancer in African (2001) (1)
S1234 Patient Trust in Physicians and Race Are Independent Predictors of Adherence to Medical Management in Inflammatory Bowel Disease (2008) (1)
A Commissioned Paper Prepared for the Institute of Medicine, National Academy of Sciences, Committee on Guidance For Designing a National Health Care Disparities Report (2002) (1)
Observing an Anniversary: The 400 Years of Inequality Project. (2021) (1)
Church Attendance and Mobility Limitation Among Black and White Men With Prostate Cancer (2021) (1)
Racial/Ethnic, Socioeconomic, and Other Social Determinants (2021) (0)
Reparations: The Public Health Perspective 400 Years Since Jamestown (2019) (0)
Abstract B76: Examining medical mistrust and breast cancer screening behaviors among African American, Latina and Arab American women (2009) (0)
Medical Mistrust Index (2019) (0)
Cockroach exposure and childhood asthma: Is the effect an artifact of confounding by stress? (2020) (0)
Innovations in Tackling Social Determinants (2018) (0)
Expanding the evidence base for health equity. (2014) (0)
Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Medication-Assisted Treatment: Evidence from Louisiana Medicaid During the COVID-19 Pandemic (2022) (0)
Comprar Minority Populations and Health: An Introduction to Health Disparities in the United States | Thomas A. LaVeist | 9780787964139 | Wiley (2007) (0)
Authors Reply to Caution (2003) (0)
Meharry-Johns Hopkins Center for Prostate Cancer Research (2014) (0)
Race , Socioeconomic Status , and Mobility : the ARIC Study b . Abbreviated Title ( Length 26 characters ) : Race , SES , and mobility 2 (2010) (0)
Factors Associated with Men’s Assessment of Prostate Cancer Treatment Choice (2015) (0)
098 Neighborhood police encounters, health and violence in a southern city (2022) (0)
1. Law and the Public’s Health: Mapping the Terrain (2019) (0)
Live Plenary: Structural Racism in HSR: Honest Reflections on Our Role and the Path Forward (2020) (0)
Medical Mistrust Index--Spanish Version (2020) (0)
Beyond Traditional Paradigms in Disparities Research (2008) (0)
Skin You're In: A documentary film that investigates the astonishing disparity in health between black and white Americans (2014) (0)
Abstract 979: Understanding the relationship between race and nicotine dependence (2010) (0)
Comparison of Screening Mammogram Rates Before vs During the COVID-19 Pandemic Among Medicaid Beneficiaries in Louisiana (2023) (0)
Making Equity the Priority. (2021) (0)
The COA 360 : A Tool for Assessing the Cultural Competenq ^ of Healthcare Organizations (2008) (0)
Perspective: The Spectrum of Health-care Disparities in the USA (2011) (0)
Authors' response (2010) (0)
About the NIH Consensus Development Program (2010) (0)
Disparities in Prostate Cancer Treatment Modality and Quality of Life (2010) (0)

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