Previous health research on the double jeopardy of being Black and old is largely based
upon subjective assessments of health. This article discusses the measurement of health …

The double jeopardy hypothesis posits that racial minority elderly suffer a double
disadvantage to health due to the interactive effects of age and race. Empirical examinations …

Considerable research on minority health has examined whether members of a minority
group experience more rapid health declines than the White majority when both groups …

Longitudinal data from a 15-year national survey of adults are used to test the double
jeopardy to health hypothesis as well as the alternative hypotheses that aging levels ethnic …

African Americans generally have more health problems than Whites, as manifested on most
indicators of morbidity and mortality. The question pursued in this research is whether the …

Background The weathering hypothesis views the elevated rates of illness, disability, and
mortality seen among Black Americans as a physiological response to the structural barriers …

The purpose of this study was to determine whether the self-rated health of older blacks is
worse than that of older whites and, if such differences exist, whether the life stress …

Six waves of observations spanning a decade on a panel of 566 black and 5,196 non-Black
survivors were utilized to examine social and racial differences in age-related changes in …

Previous research on race differences in health, we believe, has failed to take into account
the initial state of health of the respondents. Other research has demonstrated that elders in …

A review of health data identified four major trends in the elderly population:(a) a younger
Black group that was more morbid than an older Black group,(b) an alternating pattern of …