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Table 15. Inequality, Social Capital, and Health Outcomes of Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States |
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A growing body of recent international and country-level research is arguing that in addition to the direct effects of absolute income, health is affected by economic inequality. The underlying assumption of the link between economic inequality and health is that economic inequality generates a sense of social deprivation, which contributes to poor health by exposing the most relatively disadvantaged individuals to higher psychosocial risk factors These psychosocial risk factors include important sources of chronic stress such as lower social status, lack of friends, and a difficulty in childhood, as well as stress-induced behavior. Chronic stress can affect the cardiovascular and immune systems and increase susceptibility to diseases. Due to the lower social status in society the effects of income inequality is more likely to be stronger for the least well off in society, and more specifically for and other disadvantaged race/ethnic groups. Although studies examining the link between health outcomes and economic inequality have increased in the past few years, it is still not known how the Racial/ethnic groups might be affected by income inequality. In particular, it is not clear if members of racial/ethnic groups should be expected to feel a sense of social deprivation relative to the total population, members of another more advantaged racial/ethnic group, or members of their own group. |
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| Jesmin, Syeda. "Table 15. Inequality, Social Capital, and Health Outcomes of Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA, Jul 31, 2008 <Not Available>. 2009-05-23 <http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242757_index.html> |
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| Jesmin, S. , 2008-07-31 "Table 15. Inequality, Social Capital, and Health Outcomes of Racial/Ethnic Minority Groups in the United States" Paper presented at the annual meeting of the American Sociological Association Annual Meeting, Sheraton Boston and the Boston Marriott Copley Place, Boston, MA Online <PDF>. 2009-05-23 from http://www.allacademic.com/meta/p242757_index.html |
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Abstract: A growing body of recent international and country-level research is arguing that in addition to the direct effects of absolute income, health is affected by economic inequality. The underlying assumption of the link between economic inequality and health is that economic inequality generates a sense of social deprivation, which contributes to poor health by exposing the most relatively disadvantaged individuals to higher psychosocial risk factors These psychosocial risk factors include important sources of chronic stress such as lower social status, lack of friends, and a difficulty in childhood, as well as stress-induced behavior. Chronic stress can affect the cardiovascular and immune systems and increase susceptibility to diseases. Due to the lower social status in society the effects of income inequality is more likely to be stronger for the least well off in society, and more specifically for and other disadvantaged race/ethnic groups. Although studies examining the link between health outcomes and economic inequality have increased in the past few years, it is still not known how the Racial/ethnic groups might be affected by income inequality. In particular, it is not clear if members of racial/ethnic groups should be expected to feel a sense of social deprivation relative to the total population, members of another more advantaged racial/ethnic group, or members of their own group. |
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| A growing body of recent international and country-level research is arguing that in addition to the direct effects of absolute income health is affected by economic inequality. A number of country-level research on income inequality and health suggest that for rich countries relative poverty rather than absolute poverty is the stronger predictor of health outcomes. The underlying assumption of the link between economic inequality and health is that economic inequality generates a sense of social deprivation which contributes to |
| use measures of inequality within the total 1 population (total inequality) to capture the relative deprivation felt by the group with lower status. However the literature on relative deprivation shows that people may be more likely to assess their position in society not through comparison with the population as a whole but with their own group with whom they associate. Since in the United States mortality and morbidity rates for the racial/ethnic minority groups have consistently been higher compared |
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