Racial discrimination, psychological distress, and self-rated health among US-born and foreign-born black Americans

American Journal of Public Health

Volumn 101, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 1704-1713

  Krieger, Nancy ^a   Kosheleva, Anna ^a   Waterman, Pamela D ^a   Chen, Jarvis T ^a   Koenen, Karestan ^a,b  

^a HARVARD SCHOOL OF PUBLIC HEALTH   (United States)

^b HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICAN; ARTICLE; COHORT ANALYSIS; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDY; ETHNOLOGY; FEMALE; HEALTH DISPARITY; HEALTH STATUS; HUMAN; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MENTAL STRESS; MIDDLE AGED; MIGRATION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SELF REPORT; SOCIAL PSYCHOLOGY; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS; TRADE UNION;

ADULT; AFRICAN AMERICANS; COHORT STUDIES; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; EMIGRANTS AND IMMIGRANTS; FEMALE; HEALTH STATUS; HEALTH STATUS DISPARITIES; HUMANS; LABOR UNIONS; MALE; MENTAL HEALTH; MIDDLE AGED; PREJUDICE; SELF REPORT; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; STRESS, PSYCHOLOGICAL;

EID: 80051976310     PISSN: 00900036     EISSN: 15410048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2011.300168     Document Type: Article

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