Journal
BIOLOGY OF DISADVANTAGE: SOCIOECONOMIC STATUS AND HEALTH
Volume 1186, Issue -, Pages 69-101Publisher
WILEY-BLACKWELL
DOI: 10.1111/j.1749-6632.2009.05339.x
Keywords
socioeconomic status and health; race and health; genetics; social factors and health; migration and health
Funding
- NATIONAL HEART, LUNG, AND BLOOD INSTITUTE [U01HL087322] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NATIONAL INSTITUTE ON AGING [P01AG020166] Funding Source: NIH RePORTER
- NHLBI NIH HHS [U01 HL087322, 3U01HL087322-02S1, U-01 HL 87322-02] Funding Source: Medline
- NIA NIH HHS [P01 AG020166] Funding Source: Medline
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This paper provides an overview of racial variations in health and shows that differences in socioeconomic status (SES) across racial groups are a major contributor to racial disparities in health. However, race reflects multiple dimensions of social inequality and individual and household indicators of SES capture relevant but limited aspects of this phenomenon. Research is needed that will comprehensively characterize the critical pathogenic features of social environments and identify how they combine with each other to affect health over the life course. Migration history and status are also important predictors of health and research is needed that will enhance understanding of the complex ways in which race, SES, and immigrant status combine to affect health. Fully capturing the role of race in health also requires rigorous examination of the conditions under which medical care and genetic factors can contribute to racial and SES differences in health. The paper identifies research priorities in all of these areas.
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