The Raymond Pearl memorial lecture, 1992
Ethnicity and disease—more than familiality
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 19459576 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William J Schull (The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1993 |
| Volume | 5 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 373-385 |
| Publication date | 1993-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Journal of Human Biology (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1042-0533 • E-ISSN: 1520-6300 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/ajhb.1310050403 |
| PMID | 28548404 |
| OpenAlex | W2084375662 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 38 |
It has long been recognized that the prevalence of many, possibly most diseases differs among different ethnic groups, and it is further known that cultural differences among people affect the acceptability of measures to prevent or ameliorate a given disease process. Major public health challenges of our time are the delineation and understanding of how these differences in prevalence arise, and the fashioning of acceptable and effective intervention strategies. The web of causation is undoubtedly complex and in the unraveling there will be a need to examine new paradigms, new models of how genes and environments interact in the evolution of disease. These models must recognize the levels within the disease process where interactions can occur. This will demand a holistic rather than the reductionist approach that has obtained in the past. However, there are promising developments at the molecular and cellular levels, and the methods of data analysis grow progressively more sophisticated. This presentation briefly describes the methods of and problems confronted by genetic epidemiology in the context of studies of ethnic differences in disease. © 1993 Wiley‐Liss, Inc
Biology · Causation · Disease · Epistemology · Ethnic group · Pathology · Pearl · Reductionism · Sociology · Anthropology · Genetic Associations and Epidemiology · Health, Environment, Cognitive Aging · History · Medicine · Nutrition, Genetics, and Disease · Psychology
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Disease
Causal Thinking in the Health Sciences
Racial and Ethnic Differences in Disease
Migration and physical differentiation. A comparison of immigrant with American‐born Chinese
Individual admixture estimates
A new world syndrome of metabolic diseases with a genetic and evolutionary basis
Health, lifestyle and environment
| Citations per year | 0.1 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1996 - 2005 (10) |
| Highly cited | No |