NATIONAL AFRICAN-AMERICAN MORTALITY ANALYSIS

二十世纪见证了上限的巨大扩张 人类生活的一部分。 在世纪之交， 在美国出生时只有47岁。 此后平均 人类的预期寿命已超过70岁。 而且 现在，人类活到八十岁或更老并不罕见。 然而，黑人的预期寿命却落后于白色人 多年来，种族的具体记录已经收集。 事实上， 近年来，黑人的预期寿命有所下降。 尽管有充分的证据表明非洲的死亡人数过多， 美国人缺乏关于行为和 黑人长寿的社会决定因素或种族的存在 寿命预测因素的影响差异。 这项建议 概述了一个项目，以评估种族差异的影响， 在两个国家的样本中， 美国黑人和国家健康访谈调查，补充 衰老 有三个具体目标： 1.追踪受访者并获得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.为了研究社会融合对种族差异的影响， mortality. 3.为了检验社会经济地位对 mortality.

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.