Inequalities and African-American health how racial disparities create sickness
"This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have been widely documented, but most researc...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Bristol
Policy Press
2016
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Geschichte 1800-2015
> Discrimination in medical care / United States
> Minorities / Medical care / United States
> African Americans / Medical care / United States
> Health services accessibility / United States
> Delivery of Health Care
> Racism
> African Americans / Medical care
> Discrimination in medical care
> Health services accessibility
> Minorities / Medical care
> Minderheit
> Schwarze. USA
> Rassismus
> Auswirkung
> Gesundheitswesen
> Schwarze
> United States
> USA
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | "This book shows how living in a highly racialized society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighborhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have been widely documented, but most research has focused on single factors that produce and perpetuate those disparities, such as individual health behaviors and access to medical care."--Page [4] of cover |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 163-185) and index |
| Beschreibung: | v, 194 Seiten 24 cm |
| ISBN: | 9781447322825 978-1-4473-2282-5 1447322827 1-4473-2282-7 |