The metaphor of the miner's canary and black-white disparities in health: a review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes
The metaphor of the miner's canary and black-white disparities in health: a review of intergenerational socioeconomic factors and perinatal outcomes
This chapter takes up perhaps the most insidious case of group health disparities in the developed world, the gap between black and white people in the US. It traces the intergenerational aspects of the health deficit suffered by African Americans, likening the African American population to a canary in the coalmine: their multiply-disadvantaged status concentrates the health-depressing effects of social inequality.
Keywords: group health disparities, health deficit, social inequality, United States, African Americans
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