Race, Ethnicity, and Health A Public Health Reader.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: LaVeist, Thomas A.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newark : John Wiley & Sons, Incorporated, 2012.
Colección:New York Academy of Sciences Ser.
Temas:
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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
  • Environmental Stimuli
  • Moderator Variables
  • Mediator Variables
  • Summary
  • Conclusions and Recommendations
  • 1. What Is the Relationship Between Perceived Racism and Health Outcomes for African Americans?
  • 2. What Are the Psychological and Physiological Concomitants of Perceived Racism?
  • 3. What Are Some of the General and Racism-Specific Responses Used in Response to Perceived Racism?
  • 4. Does the Context in Which Racism Is Perceived Modify Its Psychological and Physiological Effects?
  • 5. What Other Factors Influence the Relationship Between Perceived Racism and Health Outcomes?
  • References
  • Chapter 7: A Systematic Review of Empirical Research on Self-Reported Racism and Health
  • Methods
  • Results
  • Defining Racism
  • Exposure Measurement
  • Socio-Demographic Variations in Self-Reported Racism
  • Associations Between Self-Reported Racism and Health-Related Outcomes

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