Disentangling Race and Socioeconomic Status: A Key to Understanding Health Inequalities
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- 1 June 2005
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Journal of Urban Health
- Vol. 82 (2_suppl_3) , iii26-iii34
- https://doi.org/10.1093/jurban/jti061
Abstract
This article addresses one of the most vexing problems facing health disparities researchers, the confounding of race and socioeconomic status. This article does the following: (1) it outlines the magnitude of confounding between race and socioeconomic status; (2) it demonstrates problems caused by this confounding; (3) it examines the degree to which race disparities are a function of socioecomic status; and (4) it discusses considerations for advancing research on health disparities after accounting for the confounding of race and socioeconomic status.Keywords
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