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A Life Course Perspective on How Racism May Be Related to Health Inequities
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Recent studies show that racism may influence health inequities. As individuals grow from infancy into old age, they encounter social institutions that may create new exposures to racial bias. Yet, few studies have considered this idea fully. We suggest a framework that shows how racism and health inequities may be viewed from a life course perspective. It applies the ideas of age-patterned exposures, sensitive periods, linked lives, latency period, stress proliferation, historic period, and cohorts. It suggests an overarching idea that racism can structure one's time in asset-building contexts (e.g., education) or disadvantaged contexts (e.g., prison). This variation in time and exposure can contribute to racial inequities in life expectancy and other health outcomes across the life course and over generations.
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“There is no way to identify racial trauma other than through a life-course approach that captures the complex nature of individual, collective, historical, and intergenerational experiences of racism experienced by BIPOC communities in Western society.”
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“This finding suggests that the detrimental impact of racism may attenuate over time, perhaps because of the fading impact of brief exposure or due to individuals becoming ‘hardened’ to racism over time [412, 413].”
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“Gee, Walsemann and Brondolo [413] have argued that explicit attention to the timing of racism is critical both for theoretical and empirical reasons, especially these dimensions of time: (1) the length of exposure to discriminatory events; (2) the timing of these events within the life course; and (3) the etiological period between exposure and the onset of illness.”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Gee, G. C., Walsemann, K. M., & Brondolo, E.
- Affiliations
- St. John's University (US)
- Venue
- American Journal of Public Health
- Publisher
- American Public Health Association
- Published
- 2012-05
- Volume
- 102
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 967-974
- ISSN
- 0090-0036 (ISSN-L)
- 1541-0048
- PMC
- PMC3483932
- OpenAlex
- W2074565935
- Cited by
- 547
- References
- 97
- Citations by year
- 2026: 19 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 62 · 2023: 56 · 2022: 56 · 2021: 73 · 2020: 49 · 2019: 43 · 2018: 31 · 2017: 25 · 2016: 19 · 2015: 26 · 2014: 19 · 2013: 14 · 2012: 4
- FWCI
- 66.19
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- American Journal of Public Health (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Scholar Commons (University of South Carolina) (submittedVersion)
- Funders
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (R24HD041022)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Racial and Ethnic Identity Research
- Social Sciences › Health › Health disparities and outcomes
- Social Sciences › Sociology and Political Science › Gender, Health, and Social Inequality
- Keywords
- racism, health disparities, life course perspective, racial bias, sensitive period, linked lives, latency period, historical periods, cohort, asset building, disadvantaged contexts, life expectancy
- MeSH terms
- Age Factors, Humans, Prejudice, Social Environment, Stress, Psychological, Health Status Disparities
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