Disparities in Whites' versus Blacks' self-rated health: social status, health-care services, and health behaviors.
J Community Health
; 38(4): 727-33, 2013 Aug.
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| ID: mdl-23483358
ABSTRACT
Using 2009 National Health Interview Survey data, we examined how social-status factors, variables describing health services, and health-related behaviors explained self-rated health among Black adults and among White adults. We wanted to evaluate whether self-rated health's relationships with these three sets of variables were conditional on race. Our results overall indicated that social-status, health-care-services, and health-behaviors variables are important to the explanation of both groups' self-rated health. But in this study, when all social-status, health-care-services, and health-behaviors variables were controlled, Black respondents' self-reported health did not differ, on average, from White respondents'. Such a finding firmly suggests that the three sets of variables partially explain disparities in the groups' self-reported health. In the end, our results showed racial health disparities to be partially explained by racial differences in distribution of health resources and health behaviors.
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Assunto principal:
Classe Social
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Comportamentos Relacionados com a Saúde
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População Negra
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População Branca
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Disparidades nos Níveis de Saúde
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Serviços de Saúde
Limite:
Female
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Humans
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Male
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Middle aged
País/Região como assunto:
America do norte
Idioma:
En
Revista:
J Community Health
Ano de publicação:
2013
Tipo de documento:
Article
País de afiliação:
Estados Unidos