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8882843

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1-2
pubmed:dateCreated
1996-12-17
pubmed:abstractText
This investigation focuses on the relationship between racial discrimination and health. Many studies have shown a link between race and differential health outcomes, but few have actually measured racial discrimination. Such studies leave unanswered the question of exactly how the experience of racial discrimination might affect health. Racial discrimination is argued to act in the same fashion as other chronic stressors by increasing blood pressure. However, racial discrimination may also give rise to the sense of thwarted aspirations, itself a stressor, and make the active coping style of "John Henryism" more likely. In these data, we measure perceived racial discrimination for a sample of African Americans and find that experiencing racially-based discriminatory treatment does not impact health. There is no relationship between doctor-diagnosed hypertension and cardiovascular disease, and being the victim of racially biased treatment. We discuss possible reasons for this, and argue that greater conceptualization about the postulated link between discrimination and health is necessary, as well as explicitly designed studies for the purpose of examining this postulated relationship.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
1049-510X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
6
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
148-53
pubmed:dateRevised
2007-11-14
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:articleTitle
The health consequences of racial discrimination: a study of African Americans.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Sociology, Michigan State University East Lansing 48824-1111, USA.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.