Social and Economic Well-Being by Race and Hispanic Origin

Doug Henwood dhenwood at panix.com
Mon Oct 5 08:38:42 PDT 1998


Fellows, Jeffrey wrote:


>Doug, thanks for the post. From what I have seen of the research on
>socioeconomic status and health (including violence-related morbidity and
>mortality), the race/ethnicity dimension of health disappears as a
>statistically significant relationship once SES is controlled for. So a
>report on the social and economic well-being by social class would have been
>much more accurate. Of course, I am preaching to the congregation here.

There isn't much data on this sort of thing broken down by SES rather than "race," is there? Though I do recall an article in the New England Journal of Medicine in the early 1990s that showed that even after controlling for income and education, blacks on average had worse health outcomes than whites. Is there any kind of consensus on this in the literature?

Doug



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