Social Implications of Race-Color Designations

Social Class, Race, and Genetics: Implications for Education

Designations of Medicines

modern health care systems, we are in some cases faced with the problem of what to call them. One has only to consider the terms 'complementary' and 'alternative', which appear in the title of this journal, to gain a sense of the problem. The two terms are virtually synonymous in their referents. Nevertheless, they differ markedly in their connotations, since they imply different roles in their...

Syndrome designations.

Because syndrome designations permit the collection of data, they are much more than just lables. As new syndromes become delineated, their names connote (1) their phenotypic spectra, (2) their natural histories, and (3) their modes of inheritance or risk of recurrence. Various methods for designating new syndromes are reviewed, including naming them after (1) the basic defect, (2) an eponym, (...

The Color of Devolution: Race, Federalism, and the Politics of Social Control

By analyzing state decision to give local authorities control over welfare policy, we seek to advance understandings of both the origins and the consequences of policy devolution. The first part of our analysis explores the political forces that systematically influence state decisions to cede policy control to lower-level jurisdictions. We propose a parsimonious Racial Classification model of ...

[Mortality by race/color: evidence of social inequalities in Vitória (ES), Brazil].

OBJECTIVE To analyze mortality by cause and sex among groups of race or color from the mortality information system (MIS) in Vitória (Brazil), in the period from 2003 to 2006. METHODS We calculated and analyzed the mortality rates according to underlying cause, sex and race/color, and the mean and median age of death by underlying cause, sex and race. We calculated the relative risk (RR) for ...