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Relation between racial discrimination, social class, and health among ethnic minority groups
Saffron Karlsen1, James Y Nazroo
1Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, England, UK. s.karlsen@public-health.ucl.ac.uk
Objectives:
This study explored associations between racism, social class, and health among ethnic minority people in England and Wales.
Methods:
We conducted a series of regression analyses on cross-sectional data from the Fourth National Survey of Ethnic Minorities to explore the relation between different indicators of racism and health and household occupational class.
Results:
Marked independent associations existed between reported experience of racism and perceptions of Britain as a "racist society," household social class, age, sex, and various mental and physical health indicators. These associations showed reasonable consistency across the different ethnic groups.
Conclusions:
The different ways in which racism may manifest itself (as interpersonal violence, institutional discrimination, or socioeconomic disadvantage) all have independent detrimental effects on health, regardless of the health indicator used.
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