TY - JOUR
T1 - Researching health inequities among African Americans
T2 - The imperative to understand social class
AU - Oliver, M. Norman
AU - Muntaner, Carles
PY - 2005
Y1 - 2005
N2 - Racial and ethnic inequities in health abound in many disease categories. African-American communities suffer from an increased burden of illness, with higher incidence and mortality rates and more severe morbidity in cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, several cancers, diabetes, and many other ailments. Healthy People 2010, the federal government's health plan, calls for eliminating health disparities by race, ethnicity, gender, education, income, disability, geographic location, or sexual orientation. Research aimed at increasing our understanding of these health disparities and designing and evaluating interventions to improve African-American health is hampered by a liberal, classless approach. The authors argue for a theoretical framework in this research that recognizes that class exploitation sets the stage for and interacts with racial discrimination to determine racial inequities in health.
AB - Racial and ethnic inequities in health abound in many disease categories. African-American communities suffer from an increased burden of illness, with higher incidence and mortality rates and more severe morbidity in cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, several cancers, diabetes, and many other ailments. Healthy People 2010, the federal government's health plan, calls for eliminating health disparities by race, ethnicity, gender, education, income, disability, geographic location, or sexual orientation. Research aimed at increasing our understanding of these health disparities and designing and evaluating interventions to improve African-American health is hampered by a liberal, classless approach. The authors argue for a theoretical framework in this research that recognizes that class exploitation sets the stage for and interacts with racial discrimination to determine racial inequities in health.
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U2 - 10.2190/PPQX-47DY-KW0X-78Y8
DO - 10.2190/PPQX-47DY-KW0X-78Y8
M3 - Article
C2 - 16119572
AN - SCOPUS:27744606107
SN - 0020-7314
VL - 35
SP - 485
EP - 498
JO - International Journal of Health Services
JF - International Journal of Health Services
IS - 3
ER -