A Social Demography of Racial Health Disparities

种族健康差异的社会人口统计学

基本信息

批准号：
8460442
负责人：
Brian K. Finch
金额：
$ 34.34万
依托单位：
SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY
依托单位国家：
美国
项目类别：
财政年份：
2009
资助国家：
美国
起止时间：
2009-09-25 至 2014-07-30
项目状态：
已结题

项目摘要

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): Health disparities are an intractable, but not inevitable feature of the American stratification system. Sub-population groups that bear the brunt of poverty, marginalized labor, discrimination, wage gaps, and segregation---also bear the brunt of poor health (Williams and Collins 1995). This facet of American life has led to an increased focus on health disparities; in fact, Healthy People 2010 (HP2010) has put forth two lofty goals for the health of our nation. While many gains have been made for HP2010's first goal, to increase quality and years of healthy life---negligible gains have been made to meet the second goal---to eliminate health disparities (DHHS 2000). One of the primary impediments for reaching this goal is most certainly our lack of understanding of which social processes generate health disparities and how these disparities persist amidst declining morbidity and mortality rates. It is clear that genetics does not offer a complete answer to the question of persistent disparities (LaVeist 1994, Cooper 1986, Frank 2007). Consequently, investigations into possible social, economic, and structural explanations are necessary in order to better understand the origin and cause of modern health disparities. One of the most disconcerting finding with regards to health disparities is the persistent racial gap in health, mortality, and morbidity. This proposal represents a systematic and ambitious attempt to both understand and explain how these patterns have both persisted and fluctuated over time. By combining demographic, public health, and sociological theory and methods we propose to critically examine the dynamic patterns of racial health disparities, focusing specifically on the "Black/White" health gap, by simultaneously estimating the contribution of age, period, and cohort effects on health trends over time. Specifically, this research project will take an ambitious demographic approach to health disparities by looking at age, period, and cohort effects and how they change temporally to produce health disparities and changes in health disparities over time. This approach could prove to be a major addition to current approaches that simply focus on individual-level effects of survey respondents.

描述（由申请人提供）：健康差异是美国分层系统的棘手但不可避免的特征。贫穷，边缘化劳动，歧视，工资差距和隔离的亚人口群体也受到健康不良的首当其冲（Williams and Collins 1995）。美国生活的这一方面导致人们对健康差异的关注越来越大。实际上，Healthy People 2010（HP2010）为我们国家的健康提出了两个崇高的目标。尽管HP2010的第一个目标已经取得了许多收益，但要提高质量和多年健康生活的目标 - 可以实现第二个目标，以消除健康差异（DHHS 2000）。实现这一目标的主要障碍之一最肯定是我们缺乏了解哪些社会过程会导致健康差异以及这些差异如何在发病率和死亡率下降中持续下降。显然，遗传学并不能对持续差异问题提供完整的答案（Laveist 1994，Cooper 1986，Frank 2007）。因此，为了更好地理解现代健康差异的起源和原因，需要对可能的社会，经济和结构解释进行调查。关于健康差异的最令人不安的发现之一是健康，死亡率和发病率的持续种族差距。该提议代表了一种系统的和雄心勃勃的尝试，以理解和解释这些模式如何随着时间的流逝而持续和波动。通过结合人口，公共卫生和社会学理论以及方法，我们建议通过同时估计年龄，时期和同龄人对健康趋势的影响，以批判性地研究种族健康差异的动态模式，专门针对“黑/白”健康差距。具体而言，该研究项目将通过研究年龄，时期和队列效应以及它们如何变化以产生健康差异和健康差异的变化来采取雄心勃勃的人口统计学方法。这种方法可能被证明是当前方法的主要补充，仅关注调查受访者的个人级别影响。

项目成果

期刊论文数量（5）

专著数量（0）

科研奖励数量（0）

会议论文数量（0）

专利数量（0）

Cohort-based income gradients in obesity among U.S. adults.

美国成年人肥胖的基于队列的收入梯度。

DOI：
10.1002/ajhb.23084
发表时间：
2018
期刊：
American journal of human biology : the official journal of the Human Biology Council
影响因子：
0
作者：
Heo,Jongho;Beck,AudreyN;Lin,Shih-Fan;Marcelli,Enrico;Lindsay,Suzanne;KarlFinch,Brian
通讯作者：
KarlFinch,Brian

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慢性病对美国成年人残疾时间趋势的动态贡献。