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Miles to Go before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health
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Large, pervasive, and persistent racial inequalities exist in the onset, courses, and outcomes of illness. A comprehensive understanding of the patterning of racial disparities indicates that racism in both its institutional and individual forms remains an important determinant. There is an urgent need to build the science base that would identify how to trigger the conditions that would facilitate needed societal change and to identify the optimal interventions that would confront and dismantle the societal conditions that create and sustain health inequalities.
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This review documents large, pervasive, and persistent racial inequities in U.S. health and argues that institutional and individual racism, alongside socioeconomic inequality, are key drivers. It calls for a science base to guide societal and health-care interventions to reduce these inequities.
Key findings
- In 2007, blacks had an overall death rate 30% higher than whites and higher death rates than whites for 10 of the 15 leading causes of death; the 2007 life expectancy gap was almost five years (73.6 vs. 78.4 years).
- Minorities experience earlier onset and faster progression of disease: incident heart failure before age 50 was 20 times more common in blacks than whites in CARDIA, with average onset at 39 years for African Americans; 28% of cardiovascular disease deaths among blacks occurred before age 65 versus 13% among whites.
- Race captures more than SES: high-income blacks and whites lived 7.1 and 6.8 years longer, respectively, than low-income counterparts, with black-white differences at every income level; infant mortality for college-educated African American women was more than 2.5 times that of similarly educated whites and Hispanics.
- Perceived discrimination is linked to poor health: audit studies found a white applicant with a criminal record was more likely to be offered a job than a black applicant with a clean record, and white-named resumes were 50% more likely to get callbacks; among 5,147 fifth graders, 7% of whites, 15% of Hispanics, and 20% of blacks reported racial discrimination, associated with increased risk of depression, ADHD, oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder.
Methods
- Narrative review/overview of current knowledge on racial inequities in health, drawing on national mortality and life-expectancy data, epidemiological studies, audit experiments, and policy/intervention evidence.
- No new primary data collection or formal systematic review/meta-analysis is described; the paper synthesizes published evidence and outlines promising areas for future research and intervention.
Limitations
- Stated: mortality statistics are more accurate for blacks and whites than for other racial populations due to numerator and denominator problems; misclassification of Asians, Hispanics, and especially American Indians as white on death certificates yields reported rates lower than actual rates.
- Stated: age-adjusted death rates are not accurate measures of actual risk and can distort the magnitude of disparities; combining Pacific Islander data with Asian data obscures elevated risks, and there is important heterogeneity within OMB racial categories.
- Stated: current knowledge is even more limited regarding the most effective strategies to reduce health inequities. Evident from the text: as a narrative overview, it does not report a systematic search strategy, inclusion criteria, or quantitative synthesis, so conclusions rely on selected evidence.
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“African Americans had higher death rates than whites for 10 of the 15 leading causes of death.”
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“middle-aged U.S.-born Mexican Americans and Mexican immigrants with long-term residence in the U.S., had higher levels of allostatic load (a summary measure of biological dysregulation) than recent Mexican immigrants, despite being higher in SES, and even after adjustment for health practices and medical care”
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- Not checked yetcites Kaestner et al. 2009
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“Morbidity data also reveal elevated rates of illness for American Indians compared to whites for multiple conditions”
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- Not checked yetcites Barnes, Adams, and Powell-Griner 2010
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“American Indians served by the Indian Health Service (IHS, some 60% of that population) have a markedly worse health profile than that of American Indians nationally”
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- Not checked yetcites Indian Health Service 2009 [ISH]
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“age specific black/white mortality ratios are larger than the overall age-adjusted ratio of 1.3 from birth through age seventy-four”
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al. 2010
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“The negative stigmatization of being black appears to adversely impact black Caribbean immigrants over time.”
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“there is important heterogeneity in health status by ethnicity within each of the OMB racial categories”
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“Hispanics and American Indians had higher death rates than whites for diabetes, liver cirrhosis and homicide.”
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“the misclassification of Asians, Hispanics and especially American Indians as white on death certificates leads to reported mortality rates for these groups that are lower than the actual rates.”
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“For more than 100 years, scientific research has documented that there are racial gaps in health”
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- Not checked yetcites National Center for Health Statistics 2011 [NCHS]
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“Among first generation immigrants, making race salient enhances academic performance while it reduces academic performance for the second generation”
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- Not checked yetcites Deaux et al. 2007
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“a study of Chicago adults found that foreign born Hispanics had level of illness and stress similar to whites while U.S.-born Hispanics were similar to African Americans on these indicators”
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- Not checked yetcites Sternthal, Slopen, and Williams 2011
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“American Indians also had elevated mortality rates for accidents and hypertension.”
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“Immigrants of all racial groups tend to have better health than their native-born peers but their health declines with increasing length of stay and generational status”
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- Not checked yetcites Singh and Miller 2004
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“although age-adjusted death rates are useful metrics for comparison, they are not accurate measures of actual risk”
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- Not checked yetcites NCHS 2011
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“compared to a lifetime rate of psychiatric disorders that is 31% for African Americans and 37% for whites (Miranda et al. 2008), the rate is 19% for black Caribbean immigrants (Williams et al. 2007b). This rate increases to 35% in the second generation and 55% in the third.”
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al. 2007b
- Not checked yetcites Miranda et al. 2008
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“in contrast to an overall age-adjusted rate that is lower than whites, American Indians have higher age-specific death rates than whites from birth through age fifty-four”
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al. 2010
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“In 2007, blacks had an overall death rate that was 30% higher than that of whites while the rates for all other groups were lower than that of whites (Table 1).”
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- Not checked yetcites Table 1
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“Large, pervasive and persistent racial inequalities exist in the onset, course and outcomes of illness.”
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“the extent of health inequalities over time varies by the use of absolute versus relative measures of inequality and that an exclusive use of relative measures can obscure progress”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Large Racial Gaps in Health Persist > Racial Disparities in Health Persist Over Time
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- Not checked yetcites Harper et al. 2010
- Not checked yetcites Williams 2005
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“African Americans have lower lifetime and current rates of depression than whites”
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al. 2007a
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“depressed blacks are more likely than their white peers to have higher levels of impairment, more severe symptoms, to be chronically depressed and to not receive any treatment”
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al. 2007a
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“in contrast to a protective effect for whites, there was no beneficial effect of moderate alcohol consumption on all-cause mortality for blacks”
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- Not checked yetcites Sempos et al. 2003
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“Although levels of cigarette smoking are similar for blacks compared to whites a given level of tobacco use has a more adverse impact on blacks compared to whites.”
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“Minorities also get sick at younger ages and die sooner than whites.”
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“Women generally have higher rates of major depression than men but Black Caribbean men have a current rate of depression that is higher than Caribbean women”
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al. 2007a
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“they are more likely than their white peers to have tumors that grow quickly, recur more often, are resistant to treatment, and kill more frequently”
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- Not checked yetcites Chlebowski et al. 2005
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“They have a higher prevalence of current and lifetime mental disorders than Caribbean women and current and lifetime rates of mood disorders than African American men”
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al. 2007b
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“Geronimus 1992) showed that national infant death rates were lower for white and Mexican American women who delayed first births to their twenties compared to those who gave birth in their teens. The opposite pattern was evident for black and Puerto Rican women”
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- Not checked yetcites Geronimus 1992
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“White women have a higher incidence of breast cancer than blacks, but the opposite pattern exists under the age of 40, where African American women have a higher incidence than their white peers”
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- Not checked yetcites Anderson et al. 2008
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“Geronimus 1992) argued that this pattern was due to ‘weathering’ -- early physiological deterioration due to the cumulative impact of multiple social disadvantages.”
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- Not checked yetcites Geronimus 1992
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“a 20 year follow-up of adults in the CARDIA study found that incident heart failure before the age of fifty was 20 times more common in blacks than whites, with the average age of onset being 39 years old for African Americans”
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- Not checked yetcites Bibbins-Domingo et al. 2009
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“They found that blacks were more likely than whites to score high on allostatic load (high on 4 or more indicators) at all ages and the size of the black-white gap increased with age.”
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- Not checked yetcites Geronimus et al. 2006
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“Thus, although black women are less likely to get breast cancer in any given year, they are more likely to die from it.”
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“although the racial gap has narrowed, there is still an almost five-year gap in life expectancy in 2007 (73.6 vs. 78.4 years).”
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- Not checked yetcites NCHS 2011
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“Life expectancy has been improving for both groups over time but it was not until 1990 that blacks achieved the life expectancy that whites had in 1950.”
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- Not checked yetcites NCHS 2011
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“For both racial groups, as income levels rise, health improves in a stepwise manner, but there are black-white differences in life expectancy at every level of income.”
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“The pattern of racial inequities in health in the U.S. mirror those in other countries and suggest the potential of common societal causes across national and cultural contexts.”
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“He argued that British society was committing “social murder” by exposing workers to living and working conditions that made it difficult to be healthy and live to an advanced age.”
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- Not checked yetcites Engels ([1845] 1984)
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“health is affected not only by one’s current SES but by exposure to social and economic adversity over the life course.”
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“Geronimus and colleagues (2006) analysis of allostatic load scores parallel the life expectancy data and further illustrate how race and SES reflect two related but not interchangeable systems of inequality.”
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- Not checked yetcites Geronimus et al. 2006
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“For both blacks and whites, allostatic load scores were higher for the poor than non-poor, but blacks had higher scores than whites at comparable income levels”
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- Not checked yetcites Geronimus et al. 2006
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“Friedrich Engels ([1845] 1984) had noted that the upper classes in Liverpool, England had an average life expectancy of 35 years compared to 15 years for day laborers.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health
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- Not checked yetcites Engels ([1845] 1984)
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“However, race and SES combine in complex ways to affect health.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health
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“historical and contemporary racial discrimination created and perpetuates both racial inequities in SES and racial inequality in health status.”
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“There are large racial differences in SES and they account for a substantial part of observed racial differences in health.”
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“Location in social structure reflects differential power and differential exposure to psychological, social, physical and chemical exposures in occupational, residential and other societal contexts.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health
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“A recent national study of Jewish Americans, a white ethnic group with a history of structural disadvantage and stigmatization, found that Jews had higher levels of income and education than other whites, but they reported poorer health status than other whites once the association is adjusted for SES”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Perceived Discrimination and Health
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- Not checked yetcites Pearson and Geronimus 2011
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“Discrimination has also been associated with delays in seeking treatment, lower adherence to medical regimes, and lower rates of follow-up.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Perceived Discrimination and Health
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“Public sector employment has been a key to black upward mobility and the development of the black middle class”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Wilson 2011
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“Extant studies include all major racial/ethnic groups in the U.S. and non-dominant racial groups in New Zealand, South Africa and Australia, and immigrants in Canada, Hong Kong and many countries in Europe.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Perceived Discrimination and Health
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“Environmental exposures are one potential contributor to epigenetic changes, reflecting the reality that biology is not static but adapts to environmental conditions.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Understanding the Added Burden of Race
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“Although the majority of poor persons in the U.S. are white, poor white families are not concentrated in contexts of economic and social disadvantage and with the absence of an infrastructure that promotes opportunity in the ways that poor blacks and Latinos are.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Understanding the Added Burden of Race
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“The neighborhoods where minority children live have lower income, education and home ownership rates and higher rates of poverty and unemployment compared to those where white children reside.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Understanding the Added Burden of Race
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“there are higher levels of college completion for women than men in all racial groups in the U.S., but the gap is largest among blacks.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Wilson 2011
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“Limited evidence indicates that whites understand questions about discrimination in ways similar to blacks and that their emotional reactions and reported stress responses are similar to those of African Americans”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Perceived Discrimination and Health
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al. 2012
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“although their levels of discrimination are lower than those of blacks, discrimination also adversely affects the health of whites”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Perceived Discrimination and Health
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- Not checked yetcites Williams and Mohammed 2009
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“Thus the median wealth of whites is 20 times that of blacks and 18 times that of Hispanics.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Pew Research Center 2011b
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“Residential segregation by race, a mechanism of institutional discrimination, can restrict socioeconomic attainment and lead to group differences in SES and health.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Understanding the Added Burden of Race
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- Not checked yetcites Williams and Collins 2001
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“It also creates pathogenic neighborhood conditions with minorities living in markedly more health-damaging residential environments than whites and facing higher levels of acute and chronic stressors.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Understanding the Added Burden of Race
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- Not checked yetcites Williams and Collins 2001
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“Minority group members are aware of at least some experiences of discrimination and such incidents can be a source of stress.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Making Sense of Racial Inequalities in Health > Perceived Discrimination and Health
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“Wilson (2011) also indicates that these challenges will be especially acute for black males.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Wilson 2011
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“in 2011, the Republican edge (Republicans or Independents leaning Republican) over democrats among whites was 13 points (52% to 39%), compared to a two point edge (46% to 44%) in 2008.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Pew Research Center 2011a
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“In turn, the gains in life expectancy for working-age black women during 1965-74 exceeded those of other race and sex groups and were three times as large as those in the prior decade (Kaplan et al. 2008).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
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- Not checked yetcites Kaplan et al. 2008
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“the evidence reviewed here document the persistence of inequality and discrimination and suggest that anti-discrimination programs may be crucial for ensuring racial equality.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention
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“Civil Rights policies narrowed the black-white economic gap with the gains being greater for women than for men (Kaplan, Ranjit, and Burgard 2008).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
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- Not checked yetcites Kaplan, Ranjit, and Burgard 2008
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“The bottom-line is that 40,000 people die in the U.S. annually because of a lack of health insurance and we need to maximize the potential of health care to reduce disparities (Wilper et al. 2009).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > Maximizing Opportunities to Address Disparities in Health Care Settings
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- Not checked yetcites Wilper et al. 2009
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“These budget cuts, many of them outside the health sector, weaken the social safety net for vulnerable populations and will likely lead to increased rates of illness, greater numbers of premature deaths and increased healthcare costs”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Woolf 2011
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“Since President Obama has been elected, there has been marked growth in Republican party membership among White voters that has been particularly pronounced among the young (18-29) and the low income (less than $30k)”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Pew Research Center 2011a
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“However, several lines of evidence highlight the potential of at least some types of medical care to improve health and reduce social inequalities in health.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > Maximizing Opportunities to Address Disparities in Health Care Settings
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“A recent study that randomized uninsured residents to apply for Medicaid services found that, one year later, the treatment group had higher use of health care services (including primary and preventive care), lower out-of-pocket medical expenses, lower medical debt and financial stress, and better self-reported physical and mental health than the control group (Finkelstein et al. 2011).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > Maximizing Opportunities to Address Disparities in Health Care Settings
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- Not checked yetcites Finkelstein et al. 2011
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“This research has found that several framing strategies that are widely used such as framing diversity as a strength, arguing that disparities for minorities were early warning indicators (canaries in a coal mine), or claiming that disparities reflect white privilege or are structurally driven were all ineffective (Davey 2009).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > Enhancing Emotional Affect
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- Not checked yetcites Davey 2009
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“Both whites who voted for President Obama and those who did not indicate that there is less need to address racial inequality in the U.S. and they would be less supportive of policies to address inequities”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention
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- Not checked yetcites Williams et al. 2010
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“Although increased access to health care led to declines in child and maternal mortality and increases in life expectancy at birth, the low birthweight rate has not declined (Jafari et al. 2010).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > Maximizing Opportunities to Address Disparities in Health Care Settings
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- Not checked yetcites Jafari et al. 2010
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“First, primary care, with its emphasis on preventive care and the early management of disease is associated with lower total costs of health services, better health at the individual and population level and smaller social disparities in health (Starfield, Shi, and Macinko 2005).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > Maximizing Opportunities to Address Disparities in Health Care Settings
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- Not checked yetcites Starfield, Shi, and Macinko 2005
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“A similar effect not evident after his election or inauguration and no effect was found among whites.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
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- Not checked yetcites Malat, Timberlake, and Williams 2011
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“In addition, communities vary in their levels of social cohesion and other protective resources such that community capacity can be an important resource at the local level.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > Building on Resilience and Protective factors
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“Thus, access to employment, opportunities for economic mobility and other social and economic resources can eliminate disparities in marriage and promote health.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
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“In 1994, the year that Nelson Mandela was elected, black levels of happiness and life satisfaction were at the highest level observed between 1983 and 1995, with the racial gap in psychological well-being eliminated for the first time in history (Moller 1998).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
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- Not checked yetcites Moller 1998
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“Racial disparities in health are a stark symbol of the historic and ongoing racial inequalities in society.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Conclusions
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“That year also marked the lowest proportion of blacks reporting that whites wanted to keep blacks down and the lowest reports of racial discrimination.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
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- Not checked yetcites Jackson et al. 1996
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“Research reveals that active duty military service promotes marriage over cohabitation, increases the likelihood of first marriage, and leads to greater stability of marriage and that these effects are greater for blacks than for whites (Teachman 2007; Teachman 2009; Teachman and Tedrow 2008).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
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- Not checked yetcites Teachman 2007
- Not checked yetcites Teachman 2009
- Not checked yetcites Teachman and Tedrow 2008
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“Other research reveals that when President Barak Obama’s stereotype-defying success received considerable media attention (just after his nomination at the Democratic Convention and his election) there was improvement in black academic performance and a marked reduction in the well-documented negative effects of racial stereotypes on black academic performance (Marx, Ko, and Friedman 2009).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
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- Not checked yetcites Marx, Ko, and Friedman 2009
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“Both exposure to protective resources and the particular patterns of response that are mobilized to deal with potential threats can affect the levels of risk factors and also minimize the negative effects of particular risks.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > Building on Resilience and Protective factors
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“For example, among both males and females, American Indians and whites have suicide rates that are comparable to each other and two to three times higher than those of blacks, Asians and Hispanics (Centers for Disease Control 2011).”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > Building on Resilience and Protective factors
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- Not checked yetcites Centers for Disease Control 2011
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- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: unclear — It is unclear whether the paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
In the paper
“A recent study using cross-sectional data for 50 states for a 10-year period documented that states with more generous spending on education, more progressive taxation systems and more humane (lenient) TANF and Medicaid program rules had better overall population health (Kim and Jennings 2009) with the effects being stronger for overall mortality than for infant mortality.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Kim and Jennings 2009
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim.
In the paper
“For example, the life expectancy for blacks declined from the 1984 level for 5 years in a row while the life expectancy of whites increased slightly during this period.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Miles to Go: Enhancing the Science of Intervention > More Systematic and Rigorous Evaluation of Social Policies
What the sources say
- Not checked yetcites Williams and Collins 1995
plaincorrelational- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: passes — It can be checked against evidence.
- Load-bearing: unclear — It is unclear whether the paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: passes — The paper gives a reason why it holds.
It may state two separate claims as one.
A conclusion the paper draws from its own results — it cites no other source for it, so there is none to check. The quote shows it is in the paper.
In the paper
“They attest to the enduring effects of the institutionalization of inequality for stigmatized social groups.”
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > Conclusions
plaindirect- Asserted: passes — The authors put it forward as true.
- Checkable: fails — It may be too vague to check against evidence.
- Load-bearing: passes — The paper’s conclusions depend on it.
- Based: fails — The paper may give no reason why it holds.
Probably not a substantial claim. It may be too vague to check against evidence. The paper may give no reason why it holds.
The paper relies on this without support.
Racial inequalities in health are unjust and warrant societal intervention.
“there is an urgent need to develop a science base to guide societal interventions”
The paper relies on this without support.
Societal interventions can effectively reduce racial health inequities.
“identify the optimal interventions that would confront and dismantle the societal conditions that create and sustain health inequalities”
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In the citing paper
“The historically stigmatized racial groups, blacks (or African Americans), Native Americans (or American Indians and Alaska Natives) and Native Hawaiians and Other Pacific Islanders, have worse health than that of whites [1]”
From Reducing Racial Inequities in Health: Using What We Already Know to Take Action (2019) · cites this paper as [1]
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Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
Each contradiction between two passages listed here was confirmed by an independent check.
Rated minor: it would not touch a result — a value no result rests on, a p-value that stays on the same side of the significance level, or a conflict that is clerical, resolved elsewhere in the paper, or outside its own findings.
In the paper
§ Miles to Go Before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health > References
“21. Colen Cynthia G. Addressing Racial Disparities in Health Using Life Course Perspectives Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race 2011 8 79 94 PMC5993442 29887911”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Williams, D. R.
- Affiliations
- Harvard University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Williams, David R.
- ORCID
- Williams, David R.
- Venue
- Journal of Health and Social Behavior
- Publisher
- SAGE Publications
- Published
- 2012-08-31
- Volume
- 53
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 279-295
- ISSN
- 0022-1465 (ISSN-L)
- 2150-6000
- PMC
- PMC3712789
- OpenAlex
- W2145131361
- Cited by
- 507
- References
- 105
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 47 · 2024: 40 · 2023: 39 · 2022: 63 · 2021: 73 · 2020: 38 · 2019: 28 · 2018: 33 · 2017: 39 · 2016: 32 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 26 · 2013: 12 · 2012: 2
- FWCI
- 11.31
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Health and Social Behavior (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Cancer Institute (P50CA148596)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Health › Public Health and Social Inequalities
- Keywords
- racial disparities in health, health disparities, racism, institutional racism, individual racism, social determinants of health, health interventions, social change
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Awareness, Humans, Mortality, Politics, Risk Factors, Socioeconomic Factors, Sociology, Medical, Time Factors, Racial Groups, Health Status Disparities, Healthcare Disparities, Policy, Racism
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