Health Disparities By Race And Class:Why Both Matter

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dc.contributor.authorKawachi, Ichiro
dc.contributor.authorDaniels, Norman
dc.contributor.authorRobinson, Dean E
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-14T14:59:28Z
dc.date.available2019-08-14T14:59:28Z
dc.date.issued2005
dc.description.abstractIn this essay we examine three competing causal interpretations of racial disparities in health. The first approach views race as a biologically meaningful category and racial disparities in health as reflecting inherited susceptibility to disease. The second approach treats race as a proxy for class and views socioeconomic stratification as the real culprit behind racial disparities. The third approach treats race as neither a biological category nor a proxy for class, but as a distinct construct, akin to caste. We point to hisHtorical, political, and ideological obstacles that have hindered the analysis of race and class as codeterminants of disparities in health.
dc.description.urihttps://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/full/10.1377/hlthaff.24.2.343
dc.identifierhttps://doi.org/10.13016/ryul-arps
dc.identifier.citationKawachi, Ichiro and Daniels, Norman and Robinson, Dean E (2005) Health Disparities By Race And Class:Why Both Matter. Health Affairs, 24 (2). pp. 343-352.
dc.identifier.otherEprint ID 488
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1903/22579
dc.subjectHealth Equity
dc.subjectHealth
dc.subjectDisparities
dc.subjectResearch
dc.subjecthealth disparities
dc.subjectrace
dc.subjectclass
dc.subjectracial disparities
dc.subjectsocioeconomic
dc.titleHealth Disparities By Race And Class:Why Both Matter
dc.typeArticle

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