Race/Ethnic and Sex Disparities in Physical Activity

描述（由申请人提供）：本项目旨在研究是否，如果是，种族/民族和性别差异是否导致剧烈体育活动，一种促进健康的行为，在几个老龄化队列中，社会，经济和文化资本的差异。定期、剧烈的身体活动或锻炼是健康投资的一种重要形式，因为它能促进身体和社会心理健康，并降低发病率和死亡率。此外，体育活动的种族/民族和性别差异反映了美国人口中持续存在的健康差异。接下来是几个目标。首先，候选人将调查社会资本的成本和收益的不平等是否会影响跨种族/民族和性别群体的运动行为。其次，他将研究经济资本的各个维度的差异，包括现有的和积累的资源，是否调解了体育活动的种族/民族和性别差异。第三，他将阐明文化资本的各个维度，这些维度可能会影响经济和社会因素在体育活动中的种族和性别差异。最后，候选人将使用健康和退休研究——最近的纵向面板数据集，该数据集代表了50岁及以上的美国成年人，并对非裔美国人和西班牙裔美国人进行了抽样调查。这项工作与那些对在老龄化和多样化的美国人口中形成预防性健康措施的社会、文化和经济因素感兴趣的人有关。

DESCRIPTION (provided by the applicant): This project aims to examine whether and, if so, how race/ethnic and sex differences in vigorous physical activity, a health promoting behavior, result from disparities in social, economic, and cultural capital across several aging cohorts. Regular, vigorous physical activity, or exercise, is a significant form of investment in health, as it fosters better physical and social-psychological health and lowers levels of morbidity and mortality. Furthermore, race/ethnic and sex differences in physical activity mirror persistent health disparities in the U.S. population. Several objectives follow. First, the candidate will investigate whether inequalities in the costs and benefits of social capital shape exercise behavior across race/ethnic and sex groups. Second, he will examine whether disparities in various dimensions of economic capital, including current and accumulated resources, mediate race/ethnic and sex differences in physical activity. Third, he will elucidate the various dimensions of cultural capital that may shape race and sex differences in physical activity, net of economic and social factors. Finally, the candidate will use the Health and Retirement Study-a recent, longitudinal, panel data set that is nationally representative of U.S. adults aged 50 and over and that over-samples African Americans and Hispanics. This work is relevant to those interested in the social, cultural, and economic factors that shape preventative health measures in the aging and diverse U.S. population.