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ArticleAnnals of the New York Academy of Sciences2010

Race, socioeconomic status, and health: complexities, ongoing challenges, and research opportunities.

David R Williams, Selina A Mohammed, Jacinta Leavell, Chiquita Collins

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Article in Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 721 papers, 12 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors.

David R WilliamsDepartment of Society, Human Development and Health, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. dwilliam@hsph.harvard.edu
Selina A Mohammed
Jacinta Leavell
Chiquita Collins

Funding

STATISTICS COREP01AG020166 · NIA · UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN-MADISON · PI RYFF, CAROL D. · 2002 to 2015
$50.6M
Healthy Hearts Across GenerationsU01HL087322 · NHLBI · UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON · PI WALTERS, KARINA LYNN · 2006 to 2010
$3.3M
NHLBI NIH HHS 3U01HL087322-02S1NHLBI NIH HHS U01 HL087322NHLBI NIH HHS U-01 HL 87322-02NIA NIH HHS P01 AG020166
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

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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Health Status DisparitiesRacial GroupsSocial ClassEmigration and ImmigrationHealth StatusHumansLongitudinal StudiesResearchRisk FactorsSocioeconomic Factors

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PMID20201869
PMCPMC3442603

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