Racial disparities in health have been well documented over the past several decades. Most
of the research on racial disparities has focused primarily on comparisons of Blacks and …

The population is aging in both the developed and developing world, and the United States
is no exception. It is well established that Americans are living longer. US life expectancy at …

For over a hundred years, medical and social scientists have studied differences in health
status among racial groups in the United States. The resulting literature has focused on …

Racial/ethnic differences in health and mortality stand at the heart of the public health
agenda of the United States (Kington and Nickens, 2001; Martin and Soldo, 1997; Williams …

Racial-ethnic disparities in static levels of health are well documented. Less is known about
racial-ethnic differences in age trajectories of health. The few studies on this topic have …

Background Differences in health status between Black and White adults in the United
States have been widely documented. For instance, in recent reviews, Manton, Patrick, and …

Over the last couple of decades, demographers have documented an array of racial/ethnic
health disparities. While the National Research Council's 1994 Demography of Aging …

For over three decades the elimination of disparities in health by race and socioeconomic
status (SES) has been a key objective of the US Public Health Service and related agencies …

One of the primary goals of Healthy People 2010 is “eliminating health disparities” among all
population subgroups. This replaces the policy in earlier Healthy People Objectives of …

Numerous indices could be used to characterize health status in the later years. These
indices include mortality (eg, all causes, life expectancy, heart diseases, malignant …