Integrates the various disciplines of the science of health disparities in one comprehensive volume The Science of Health Disparities Research is an indispensab

In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differenc

Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are known to reflect access to care and other issues that arise from differing socioeconomic conditions. There is,

In the United States, health among racial and ethnic minorities, as well as poor people, is significantly worse than the overall U.S. population. Health dispari

Researchers commonly ask subjects to self-identify their race from a menu of preestablished options. Yet if race is a multidimensional, multilevel social constr