Previous chapters have assessed the extent of racial and ethnic disparities in healthcare, and have identified potential sources of these disparities. Disparities are found to arise from an historic and social context in which racial and ethnic minorities received inferior healthcare, reflecting broader socioeconomic disadvantage among minorities and societal discrimination. When seen by a heal...

How many racists does it take to maintain racial inequality? Historical evidence from the Jim Crow era suggests one needs a large number of racist advocates in various social arenas. More recent social scientific research, however, cites a significant decline in racist beliefs that have not been paralleled by declines in racial inequality. Hence, the strong hypothesized connection between racis...

OBJECTIVE Racial/ethnic discrimination has adverse effects on health outcomes, as does low income and education, but the relationship between discrimination, income, and education is not well characterized. In this study, we describe the associations of discrimination with income and education in elderly African Americans (AA) and European Americans (EA). DESIGN Cross-sectional observational ...

An Experimental Investigation of Age Discrimination in the French Labour Market In a field experiment of age discrimination, pairs of men aged twenty-seven and forty-seven, inquired, by email, about employment as waiters in twenty four French towns. The rate of net discrimination found against the older French waiter, corresponds to the highest rates ever recorded anywhere, by written tests, fo...

Discrimination is commonly experienced among adolescents. However, little is known about the intersection of multiple attributes of discrimination and bullying. We used a latent class analysis (LCA) to illustrate the intersections of discrimination attributes and bullying, and to assess the associations of LCA membership to depressive symptoms, deliberate self harm and suicidal ideation among a...

BACKGROUND Inequalities in health between different ethnic groups in New Zealand are most pronounced between Māori and Europeans. Our aim was to assess the effect of self-reported racial discrimination and deprivation on health inequalities in these two ethnic groups. METHODS We used data from the 2002/03 New Zealand Health Survey to assess prevalence of experiences of self-reported racial di...