Race and Ethnicity in Public Health Research
Models to Explain Health Disparities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2296551 |
|---|---|
| Authors | W W Dressler (0000-0001-7892-2652, University of Alabama), K S Oths (0000-0002-7832-457X, University of Alabama), Clarence C Gravlee (0000-0002-0913-2320, Florida State University) |
| Year | 2005 |
| Volume | 34 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 231-252 |
| Publication date | 2005-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Annual Review of Anthropology (BOOK_SERIES) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0084-6570 • E-ISSN: 1545-4290 |
| Publisher | Annual Reviews (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1146/annurev.anthro.34.081804.120505 |
| OpenAlex | W2124160024 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 226 |
| References cited | 102 |
The description and explanation of racial and ethnic health disparities are major initiatives of the public health research establishment. Black Americans suffer on nearly every measure of health in relation to white Americans. Five theoretical models have been proposed to explain these disparities: a racial-genetic model, a health-behavior model, a socioeconomic status model, a psychosocial stress model, and a structural-constructivist model. We selectively review literature on health disparities, emphasizing research on low birth weight and high blood pressure. The psychosocial stress model and the structural-constructivist model offer greatest promise to explain disparities. In future research, theoretical elaboration and operational specificity are needed to distinguish among three distinct factors: (a) genetic variants contributing to disease risk; (b) ethnoracial or folk racial categories masquerading as biology; and (c) ethnic group membership. Such elaboration is necessary to move beyond the conflation of these three distinct constructs that characterizes much of current research
Ethnic group · Health equity · Population · Psychiatry · Psychosocial · Public health · Race (biology · Race and health · Socioeconomic status · Sociology · Anthropology · Demography · Food Security and Health in Diverse Populations · Gender Studies · Health disparities and outcomes · Medicine · Psychology · Racial and Ethnic Identity Research · Social Psychology · Gerontology
Stress Processes and Resilience Pathways of Sexually and Gender Diverse Communities
The Nature/Culture of Genetic Facts
Intergenerational Educational Attainment, Family Characteristics and Child Obesity
Discrimination-Related Stress, Blood Pressure and Epstein-Barr Virus Antibodies Among Latin American Immigrants in Oregon, Us
To Be Like the Greatest
Meanings of Breast Cancer Survivorship Among Members of Ethnically-Identified Support Groups
Develando lo que dicen sobre raza y etnia las revistas de salud pública de Colombia
Parasite-stress promotes in-group assortative sociality
Is Resilience Only Skin Deep?
Do racial patterns in psychological distress shed light on the Black–White depression paradox? A systematic review
Effects of Family and Friend Support on LGB Youths' Mental Health and Sexual Orientation Milestones
Dietary acculturation and health implications among Ethiopian immigrants in Washington, DC
Differential Impact of Covid-19 Risk Factors on Ethnicities in the United States
Perceived Neighborhood Crime Safety Moderates the Association Between Racial Discrimination Stress and Chronic Health Conditions Among Hispanic/Latino Adults
Harnessing Hope in Digital Spaces for Health Equity
Epistemic Oppression, Construct Validity, and Scientific Rigor
The indispensability of race in medicine
Blending identity-specific depiction and activism advocacy in Black-centric health advertising on social media
Differential Effects of Social Support by Sexual Orientation
Racial Income Inequality, Perceptions of Competition, and Negative Interracial Outcomes
Longitudinal and contemporaneous manganese exposure in apartheid-era South Africa
Making Peasants Protestant and Other Projects
Anthropology and the Study of Disability Worlds
The erosive effects of racism
Evolution and ontogeny of stress response to social challenges in the human child
Frame Organization of the "Disease" Concept in the English Language
Frame Organization of the "Animal Diseases" Concept in the English Language”
Will biodiversity actions yield healthy places? A systematic review of human health outcomes associated with biodiversity‐focused urban greening
Transdisciplinary Perspectives on Precision Medicine
“My young life, finished already?”
Inequalities in health
Stories From Black Women in Iowa About Reproductive Health Care Experiences, Self‐Advocacy, and Recommendations for Change
Explicit versus implicit fat‐stigma
Discrimination, psychosocial stress, and health among Latin American immigrants in Oregon
Household fear of deportation in Mexican‐origin families
Toolkit article
Biocultural approaches to transgender and gender diverse experience and health
Challenging the binary
Epigenetics and the embodiment of race
Building on the biocultural syntheses
Prenatal stress exposure and early childhood BMI
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Diurnal Cortisol Rhythms
Ecologies of Exposure and Resistance (EER)
What is ‘South Asian’? A quantitative content analysis evaluating the use of South Asian ethnic categorization in Canadian health research
Preventing Cardiovascular Disease in Native Communities
Obstetric iatrogenesis in the United States
Child support debt and the well‐being of disadvantaged fathers of color
Resilience During Pregnancy by Race, Ethnicity and Nativity
Exposure and Exclusion
“As Long as I Got a Breath in My Body”
Discrimination and Multimorbidity Among Black Americans
Assessing the Validity of Self-rated Health Across Ethnic Groups
The Race Project
Race, Racism and Anthropology
Handheld Computers for Direct Observation of the Social and Physical Environment
White by default
Mitochondrial mothers of a fat nation
Self-reported discrimination against adults with hearing loss in Brazilian health services
Discriminação social em adultos com deficiência auditiva nos serviços de saúde brasileiro
Associação entre raça/cor da pele e parto prematuro
Explaining racial/ethnic differences in all-cause mortality in the Multi-Ethnic Study of Atherosclerosis (Mesa)
Household fear of deportation in relation to chronic stressors and salivary proinflammatory cytokines in Mexican-origin families post-SB 1070
Racial-ethnic, gender identity, and sexual orientation disparities in Covid-19-related social and health outcomes
Integrating Biomarkers into Research with Latino Immigrants in the United States
Cumulative burden of lifetime adversities
Adverse Childhood Experiences, Mental Health, and Risk Behaviors in Adulthood
The refugee post-migration stress scale (RPMS) – development and validation among refugees from Syria recently resettled in Sweden
Sudden infant death and social justice
To Comply or Not to Comply
Perceived Discrimination and Smoking Among Rural-to-Urban Migrant Women in China
Subjective Social Status, Mental and Psychosocial Health, and Birth Weight Differences in Mexican–American and Mexican Immigrant Women
A Trajectory Model for Understanding and Assessing Health Disparities in Immigrant/Refugee Communities
Beyond Race/Ethnicity
Health-endangering everyday settings and practices in a rural segregated Roma settlement in Slovakia
Trust in doctors, social support, and belief in Covid-19 misinformation
A predictive model for depression risk in individuals with hypertension
Abortion Bans Will Exacerbate Already Severe Racial Inequities in Maternal Mortality
Psychiatric Risk in Unstably Housed Sexual Minority Women
Social Context and Problem Factors among Youth with Juvenile Justice Involvement Histories
Primary Health Care Service Use Among Women Who Have Recently Left an Abusive Partner
Exploring a Dutch paradox
Intersectional minority stress disparities among sexual minority adults in the USA
Translating the theory of intersectionality into quantitative and mixed methods for empirical gender transformative research on health
Culture, ethnicity and chronic conditions
Commentary on Wong, Wyatt and Midkiff
Racial discrimination and health
Evaluating hypothesized explanations for the Black-white depression paradox
A systematic review of studies examining the relationship between reported racism and health and wellbeing for children and young people
Racial/Ethnic and Socioeconomic Disparities in Endocrine Therapy Adherence in Breast Cancer
Black Lives Matter
A Systematic Review of Black American Same-Sex Couples Research
Tracking biocultural pathways in population health
Hypertension and its correlates in two communities of dissimilar genetic ancestry in Sikkim, India
Experiences of Caste Stigmatization
Ensinando a Diversidade Ou a Transfobia? Um Panorama Da Educação Sobre Diversidade Sexual E De Gênero Nas Escolas Da Região De Sorocaba-Sp E Sua Intersecção Com Saúde Mental
Blocking” and “Filtering”
Integrating Education on Addressing Health Disparities into the Graduate Social Work Curriculum
Integrating a Transcultural Perspective into the Social Work Curriculum
Examining the Relationship between Institutionalized Racism and Covid–19
Essential(ist) medicine
Race and health
The Differential Effect of Foreign-Born Status on Low Birth Weight by Race/Ethnicity and Education
Perceived racism and blood pressure
Socioeconomic Status and Health in Blacks and Whites
Differing Birth Weight among Infants of U.S.-Born Blacks, African-Born Blacks, and U.S.-Born Whites
Embodying Inequality
Racism and Cardiovascular Disease in African Americans
Contribution of Major Diseases to Disparities in Mortality
Racial residential segregation
Ethnic groups and boundaries
Culture, skin color, and arterial blood pressure in Brazil
Social support, lifestyle incongruity, and arterial blood pressure in a southern black community
Lifestyle, stress, and blood pressure in a southern black community
John Henryism, Gender, and Arterial Blood Pressure in an African American Community
Socio-Ecological Stress, Suppressed Hostility, Skin Color, and Black-White Male Blood Pressure
Negative Affect as a Prospective Risk Factor for Hypertension
Who are the Whites
US Socioeconomic and Racial Differences in Health
Racial/Ethnic Discrimination and Health
John Henryism and the health of African-Americans
Skin pigmentation, self-perceived color, and arterial blood pressure in Puerto Rico
The Monitoring of Racial/Ethnic Status in the USA
The prevalence of hypertension in seven populations of west African origin
Research on Health Inequalities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Skin color, ethnicity, and blood pressure I
Coronary heart disease risk factors in men with light and dark skin in Puerto Rico
Hypertension
Racial discrimination and blood pressure
The slavery hypothesis for hypertension among African Americans
Prejudice as Stress
Very Low Birthweight in African American Infants
Self-Reported Experiences of Racial Discrimination and Black–White Differences in Preterm and Low-Birthweight Deliveries
Regression Analysis
Perceived stress following race-based discrimination at work is associated with hypertension in African-Americans. The metro Atlanta heart disease study, 1999-2001
Racial and gender discrimination
Understanding the role of mediating risk factors and proxy effects in the association between socio-economic status and untreated hypertension
What's in a Name? The Consequences of Violating Brazilian Emic Color-Race Categories in Estimates of Social Well-Being
In Other Words
White by Definition
Medical Anthropology
Health in the African American Community
The Health Consequences of Cultural Consonance
The Concept of Race1
Ethnic Classification in Southeastern Puerto Rico
Race, Ethnicity, and Racism in Medical Anthropology, 1977-2002
Referential Ambiguity in the Calculus of Brazilian Racial Identity
Are Ethnic Groups Biological "Species" to the Human Brain
| Unique citing works | 226 |
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| Citations per year | 11,3 |
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | Yes |
| Citation types | Neutral: 219 |