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 …

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 …

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 …

Collecting epidemiologic data by ethnicity and race is a highly useful undertaking; but
“benchmark” comparisons relative to majority Americans should not take priority over …

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 …

Black Americans live fewer years than whites and live more years with chronic health
problems. The origins of this racial gap are ambiguous. This study examines 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 …

Pervasive health disparities continue to exist among racial/ethnic minority groups, but the
factors related to these disparities have not been fully elucidated. We undertook this …

In this paper we examine the hypothesis that health differences between Blacks and Whites
in later life are related to socioeconomic status. Using the 1984 panel of the Survey of …

During the last 4 decades, a rapid increase has occurred in the number of survey-based and
epidemiological studies of the health profiles of adults in general and of the causes of …