Inequality and African-American health : how racial disparities create sickness / Shirley A. Hill.

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Bristol : Policy Press, 2017.

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This volume reveals how living in a highly racialised society affects health through multiple social contexts, including neighbourhoods, personal and family relationships, and the medical system. Black-white disparities in health, illness, and mortality have been widely documented, but most research has focused on single factors that produce and perpetuate those disparities, such as individual health behaviours and access to medical care. This title offers a comprehensive perspective on health and sickness among African Americans. Starting with an examination of how race has been historically constructed in the United States generally and in its medical system specifically, it goes on to explore the resilience of these racial ideologies and practices.

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May 30, 2017

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