NATIONAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN MORTALITY ANALYSIS

二十世纪见证了上限的巨大扩张。 人类生命的一部分。在世纪之交，平均预期寿命为 出生在美国只有47岁。从那时起平均 人类的预期寿命已超过七十岁。而且，它 对于人类来说，活到80岁或更老并不罕见。 然而，黑人的预期寿命一直落后于白人的预期寿命 多年来，种族特有的记录一直被收集。事实上, 近年来，黑人的预期寿命有所下降。 尽管有很好的证据表明非洲的死亡人数过多 美国人对行为和心理问题知之甚少 黑人长寿或种族存在的社会决定因素 长寿预测因素的影响差异。这项建议 概述了一个项目，以评估种族差异对已知 长寿与两个国家样本相关，全国人口普查 《美国黑人与国家健康访谈调查》 衰老。具体目标有三个： 1.跟踪受访者并获取有关12年生存模式的数据 在1979年美国黑人全国调查的受访者中 (NSBA)。 2.考察种族差异对社会融合的影响 死亡率。 3.考察种族差异对社会经济地位的影响 死亡率。

The twentieth century has witnessed a great expansion in the upper limits of human life. At the turn of the century the average life expectancy at birth in the United States was only 47 years old. Since then average human life expectancy has risen to excess of seventy years old. And, it is now not unusual for humans to reach eighty years of age or older. However, black life expectancy has lagged behind white life expectancy for as many years as race specific records have been collected. In fact, in some recent years there have been declines in Black life expectancy. In spite of well documented findings of excess deaths in African Americans there is a paucity of knowledge regarding the behavioral and social determinants of longevity in Blacks or the existence of race differences in the effects of predictors of longevity. This proposal outlines a project to assess race differences in the effects of known longevity correlates in two national samples, the National Survey of Black Americans and the National Health Interview Survey, Supplement on Aging. There are three specific aims: 1. To track respondents and obtain data on twelve year survival patterns among the respondents from the 1979 National Survey of Black Americans (NSBA). 2. To examine race differences in the effects of social integration on mortality. 3. To examine race differences in the effects of socioeconomic status on mortality.