Umfang:
1 online resource (850 pages)
Ausgabe:
1st ed.
ISBN:
9781118219386
Serie:
New York Academy of Sciences Series v.32
Inhalt:
Intro -- Race, Ethnicity, and Health: A Public Health Reader -- Copyright -- Contents -- Sources -- The Editors -- The Authors -- Introduction: The Ethnic Demographic Transition -- Race, Ethnicity, and Health -- About This Book -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 1: Defining Health and Health Care Disparities and Examining Disparities Across the Life Span -- History of Health Disparities -- Health Disparity Versus Health Inequality Versus Health Inequity -- Health Disparities -- Health Inequalities -- Health Equity and Inequities -- Health Status Disparities and Health Care Disparities -- Disparities Across the Life Span -- Morbidity -- Summary -- References -- Part 1: Historical and Political Considerations -- Chapter 2: The Color Line: Race Matters in the Elimination of Health Disparities -- Race Matters -- The Historical Perspective -- References -- Chapter 3: Health Care Disparities-Science, Politics, and Race -- References -- Part 2: Conceptualizing Race and Ethnicity -- Chapter 4: Why Genes Don't Count (for Racial Differences in Health) -- The Myth of Race as Biology -- The Double Error Inherent in Genetic Explanations of Racial Differences -- Why Race-as-Genes Fails in Practice -- From Studies of Race-as-Genetics to Studies of Racialism and Racism -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 5: Using "Socially Assigned Race" to Probe White Advantages in Health Status -- Introduction -- Methods -- Data Analysis -- Results -- Discussion -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Author Contributions -- Part 3: Explaining Racial and Ethnic Disparities -- Psychosocial and Individual-Level Determinants -- Chapter 6: Racism as a Stressor for African Americans: A Biopsychosocial Model -- Conceptualizations of Racism -- Evidence of Racism -- Biopsychosocial Effects of Perceived Racism in African Americans: A Contextual Model.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9781118049082
Weitere Ausg.:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781118049082
Sprache:
Englisch
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