Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Experiment Videos

(Dis)respect and black mortality

B P Kennedy1, I Kawachi, K Lochner

  • 1Department of Health Policy and Management, Harvard School of Public Health, Boston, MA 02115, USA. kennedy@hsph.harvard.edu

Ethnicity & Disease
|February 19, 1998
PubMed
Summary

Related Concept Videos

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Using otolith chemical and structural analysis to investigate reservoir habitat use by juvenile Chinook salmon Oncorhynchus tshawytscha.

Journal of fish biology·2014
Same author

Contributions of the sympathetic nervous system, glutathione, body mass and gender to blood pressure increase with normal aging: influence of heredity.

Journal of human hypertension·2005
Same author

Elevated S-adenosylhomocysteine in Alzheimer brain: influence on methyltransferases and cognitive function.

Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)·2004
Same author

Early and persistent alterations in prefrontal cortex MAO A and B in Alzheimer's disease.

Journal of neural transmission (Vienna, Austria : 1996)·2003
Same author

Agonist-stimulated neuropeptide and catecholamine release from bovine adrenal chromaffin cells.

Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences·2002
Same author

Ecological analysis of teen birth rates: association with community income and income inequality.

Maternal and child health journal·2001

Racial prejudice at a collective level is linked to increased mortality rates for both Black and White populations across the United States. This study highlights the broad health impacts of societal racism.

Area of Science:

  • Public Health
  • Sociology
  • Epidemiology

Background:

  • Racial discrimination has documented adverse health effects on African Americans.
  • Previous research focused on individual experiences of discrimination.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To examine the association between collective racial prejudice and mortality rates in Black and White populations.
  • To investigate racism as an ecological characteristic impacting health outcomes.

Main Methods:

  • Cross-sectional ecological study using data from 39 U.S. states.
  • Racial prejudice measured by aggregated survey responses on beliefs about Black-white differences.
  • Age-standardized mortality rates for 1990 analyzed.

Main Results:

Keywords:
AmericasBehaviorBlacksCauses Of DeathCultural BackgroundDemographic FactorsDeveloped CountriesDifferential MortalityEthnic GroupsMortalityMortality DeterminantsNorth AmericaNorthern AmericaPolitical FactorsPopulationPopulation CharacteristicsPopulation DynamicsPsychosocial FactorsRace RelationsSocial DiscriminationSocial ProblemsUnited StatesWhites

Related Experiment Videos

  • Collective racial prejudice strongly correlated with both Black and White mortality rates.
  • Belief in lower innate ability among Black individuals was associated with increased Black mortality.
  • A 1% increase in belief of lower innate ability correlated with 359.8 additional deaths per 100,000.

Conclusions:

  • Racism, when measured as an ecological characteristic, is associated with elevated mortality in both Black and White populations.
  • Societal attitudes towards race have significant public health implications.