DEATHS OF PEOPLE AGED 24-65 BY INCOME AND RACE
income <$9,000 -------------- black men 19.5 white men 16.0 black women 7.6 white women 6.5
income >$25,000 --------------- black men 3.6 white men 2.4 black women 2.3 white women 1.6
Doug
michael at ecst.csuchico.edu wrote:
>McCord, Colin and Freeman, Harold P. 1990. "Excess Mortality in Harlem."
>New England Journal of Medicine. 322: 3 (January 18).
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>> Fellows, Jeffrey wrote:
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>> >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.
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>> 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?
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>> Doug
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>Michael Perelman
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>California State University
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