1. Terrence D. Hill is a doctoral student in the Department of Sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His current research interests include the effects of socioeconomic status, neighborhoods, and religious involvement on mental and physical health, health behaviors, and mortality.
2. Catherine E. Ross is a professor in the Department of Sociology and the Population Research Center at the University of Texas at Austin. She studies the effects of socioeconomic status, work, family, and neighborhoods on men's and women's physical and mental health, and their sense of control versus powerlessness. Her recent publications appear in Milbank Quarterly, Journal of Health and Social Behavior, and American Sociological Review. With John Mirowsky, she published two books in 2003: Social Causes...
3. Ronald J. Angel is a professor of sociology at the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on the role of culture and social class on health and health care use. He is a former editor of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. In collaboration with colleagues at the medical schools at Galveston and San Antonio, he is principal investigator of the Austin site on a benchmark study of the health of elderly Mexican Americans in the southwestern United States. He is also a principal...