Racial Differences in Physical and Mental Health

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dc.contributor.authorWILLIAMS, DAVID R.
dc.contributor.authorYU, YAN
dc.contributor.authorJACKSON, JAMES S.
dc.contributor.authorANDERSON, NORMAN B.
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T15:00:29Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T15:00:29Z
dc.date.issued1997
dc.description.abstractThis article examines the extent to which racial differences in socio-economic status (SES), social class and acute and chronic indicators of perceived discrimination, as well as general measures of stress can account for black-white differences in self-reported measures of physical and mental health. The observed racial differences in health were markedly reduced when adjusted for education and especially income. However, both perceived discrimination and more traditional measures of stress are related to health and play an incremental role in accounting for differences between the races in health status. These findings underscore the need for research efforts to identify the complex ways in which economic and non-economic forms of discrimination relate to each other and combine with socio-economic position and other risk factors and resources to affect health.
dc.description.urihttps://journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1177/135910539700200305
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/rufq-ku0z
dc.identifier.citationWILLIAMS, DAVID R. and YU, YAN and JACKSON, JAMES S. and ANDERSON, NORMAN B. (1997) Racial Differences in Physical and Mental Health. Journal of Health Psychology, 2 (3). pp. 335-351.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 784
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22783
dc.subjectHealth Equity
dc.subjectMental Health
dc.subjectHealth Risk Factors
dc.subjectStress
dc.subjectstudies
dc.subjectmethodologies
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjectracial bias
dc.subjectsocial class
dc.subjectsocio-economic status
dc.subjectstress
dc.titleRacial Differences in Physical and Mental Health
dc.typeArticle

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