The World Health Organization defines social determinants of health as "complex, integrated, and overlapping social structures and economic systems" that are responsible for most health inequities. Similar to the individual-level risk factors such as behavioral and biological risk factors that influence disease, we consider social determinants of health such as the distribution of income, wealt...

Cardiovascular Consequences of Unfair Pay This paper investigates physiological responses to perceptions of unfair pay. In a simple principal agent experiment agents produce revenue by working on a tedious task. Principals decide how this revenue is allocated between themselves and their agents. In this environment unfairness can arise if an agent’s reward expectation is not met. Throughout the...

• We compared fair/unfair treatment among Whites/Latinos in inter/intragroup contexts. • Unfair treatment has different implications depending on group context. • Ethnicity & system-legitimizing beliefs (SJBs) interact to predict responses to discrimination. • Ethnicity & SJBs do not predict responses to unfair, group-irrelevant treatment. • Post-discrimination, low-SJBs show cardiovascular cha...

Empirical evidence indicates that people are inequity averse. However, it is unclear whether and how suffering unfairness impacts subsequent behavior. We investigated the consequences of unfair treatment in subsequent interactions with new interaction partners and the associated neural mechanisms. Participants were experimentally manipulated to experience fair or unfair treatment in the ultimat...

A quantitative measure for the fairness of network resource distribution was proposed in Jain, Chiu and Hawe [1]. This fairness function is widely adopted in network design and management. This paper proposes a new distribution fairness score function. Compared the proposed fairness function to the one by Jain, Chiu and Hawe, the proposed fairness function keeps all the nice properties that Jai...