Prejudice as Stress

描述（由申请人提供）： 傲慢、歧视和疏远给美国社会中的许多少数民族造成了一种压力重重的社会环境。 这种压力条件可能导致不利的心理和身体健康结果。 这些陈述，描述了一个“少数压力”的假设，似乎是无可争议的：这个假设呼应了社会科学中的理论著作，反映了文学和个人账户中描绘的非专业经验。 一些科学证据似乎支持这一点，例如，非洲裔美国人的高血压发病率高于他们的白色同行。 然而，当置于科学审查下时，少数压力假设并不容易得到证实。 科学证据并没有明确支持似乎是一个简单的想法，即少数群体成员遭受偏见和歧视的健康后果。 该领域的科学研究和学术工作提出了重大问题。 我们对这些问题的回答对社会具有严重的公共政策、公共卫生和伦理影响。 这些复杂的问题是本书的主题。 我试图对关于偏见与健康之间关系的研究和流行作品进行全面的批判性审查。 在这本书中，我将使用一个广泛的视角来分析少数民族压力假设和相关发现，解决科学和医学问题及其社会和伦理影响。 这本书将在两个方面具有重要意义：它将提供一个必要的全面综合的理论和研究成果的审查;它将开始讨论美国社会如何解决组成它的不同群体的健康和生活质量问题。这些问题与2010年健康人的首要目标之一有关，因为他们解决了美国健康差异的原因。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Prejudice, discrimination and alienation create a stressful social environment for many minority groups in American society. Such stressful conditions can lead to adverse mental and physical health outcomes. These statements, describing a "minority stress" hypothesis, seem incontrovertible: The hypothesis echoes theoretical writings in the social sciences and reflects lay experiences as portrayed in literary and personal accounts. Some scientific evidence seems to support it, for example, that African American men have higher rates of hypertension than their white counterparts. However, when placed under scientific scrutiny, the minority stress hypothesis is not easily confirmed. Scientific evidence has not clearly supported what seems like a simple idea, that minority group members suffer health consequences of prejudice and discrimination. Scientific research and scholarly work in the area raise significant questions. The answers we give to these questions have serious public policy, public health, and ethical implications for society. These complex issues are the topic of the proposed book. I seek to conduct a comprehensive critical review of research and popular works on the relationship between prejudice and health. In the book I will analyze the minority stress hypothesis and relevant findings using a broad perspective that addresses scientific and medical issues and their social and ethical implications. The book will be significant in two ways: It will provide a needed comprehensive integrated review of theory and research findings; and it will begin a discussion on how American society can address issues of health and quality of life for the diverse groups that compose it. These issues are related to one of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2010, in that they address causes for health disparities in the United States.