Under the skin: Using theories from biology and the social sciences to explore the mechanisms behind the black-white health gap

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 100, Issue SUPPL. 1, 2010, Pages

  Green, Tiffany L ^a   Darity Jr , William A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN SCHOOL OF MEDICINE AND PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AFRICAN AMERICAN; ALLOSTASIS; ARTICLE; BIOLOGY; CAUCASIAN; ETHNOLOGY; HEALTH DISPARITY; HUMAN; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; RESEARCH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PROBLEM; SOCIOLOGY; THEORETICAL MODEL;

AFRICAN AMERICANS; ALLOSTASIS; BIOLOGY; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; RESEARCH; SOCIAL JUSTICE; SOCIAL PROBLEMS; SOCIAL SCIENCES; STRESS DISORDERS, POST-TRAUMATIC;

EID: 77950576381     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2009.171140     Document Type: Review

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