- Sep 12, 2009
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...When a Racist Society is the True Culprit
For more than a decade researchers have invested over $1 billion to study the
connection between race and disparities in health. It’s a staggering amount of
time and money that has heeded no substantial findings in the eyes of many
researchers.
That’s because, according to these researchers, disparities in health aren’t
connected to race or ancestry.
“What we found in the literature published from 2007 to 2013 was basically
nothing,” Jay Kaufman, the lead author of the first study to examine available
genetic data for evidence that explains racial-health disparities, told The
Atlantic.
In other words, it seems that the idea of health disparities being caused solely
by someone’s skin color or ancestry may not be as true as many have long
believed.
Instead, a host of socially constructed disadvantages that
plague communities of color and low-income neighborhoods
could truly be the culprit behind disparities in health and persistent gaps in
life expectancy.
Read more: http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/04...alth-disparities-racist-society-true-culprit/
For more than a decade researchers have invested over $1 billion to study the
connection between race and disparities in health. It’s a staggering amount of
time and money that has heeded no substantial findings in the eyes of many
researchers.
That’s because, according to these researchers, disparities in health aren’t
connected to race or ancestry.
“What we found in the literature published from 2007 to 2013 was basically
nothing,” Jay Kaufman, the lead author of the first study to examine available
genetic data for evidence that explains racial-health disparities, told The
Atlantic.
In other words, it seems that the idea of health disparities being caused solely
by someone’s skin color or ancestry may not be as true as many have long
believed.
Instead, a host of socially constructed disadvantages that
plague communities of color and low-income neighborhoods
could truly be the culprit behind disparities in health and persistent gaps in
life expectancy.
Read more: http://atlantablackstar.com/2015/04...alth-disparities-racist-society-true-culprit/