Inequality and African-American Health - How Racial Disparities Create Sickness (Paperback)

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. This is the first book to offer a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans, starting with an examination of how race has been historically constructed in the US and in the medical system and the resilience of racial ideologies and practices. Racial disparities in health reflect racial inequalities in living conditions, incarceration rates, family systems, and opportunities. These racial disparities often cut across social class boundaries and have gender-specific consequences. Bringing together data from existing quantitative and qualitative research with new archival and interview data, this book advances research in the fields of families, race-ethnicity, and medical sociology.

General

Imprint:	Policy Press
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	October 2016
Authors:	Shirley A. Hill
Dimensions:	240 x 172 x 19mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	224
ISBN-13:	978-1-4473-2282-5
Categories:	Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Ethnic studies > Black studies Books > Medicine > General issues > Public health & preventive medicine > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social institutions > Family & relationships > General Promotions
LSN:	1-4473-2282-7
Barcode:	9781447322825

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