Book chapter
Race, Law, and Health Disparities: Toward a Critical Race Intervention
Annual review of law and social science, pp 313-329
01 Jan 2017
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Abstract
In response to persistent and pervasive differences in health across racial and ethnic groups in the United States, there is a national commitment to achieving health equity, or optimal levels of health for all. Achieving health equity and eliminating health disparities is not without its challenges and will require interventions and approaches that focus on improving opportunity structures for racial/ethnic minorities. We provide a brief overview of the literature documenting black/white differences in health across the life course. We then discuss current conceptual models guiding this research and discuss the importance of translating legal theory-specifically, critical race approaches-to both the study of health disparities and the development of interventions to address them. We conclude with examples of research that incorporate, although not explicitly, aspects of critical race theory and discuss how this approach can be leveraged in future studies.
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- Title
- Race, Law, and Health Disparities: Toward a Critical Race Intervention
- Creators
- Osagie K. Obasogie - College Station Medical CenterIrene Headen - Univ Calif Berkeley, Sch Publ Hlth, Div Community Hlth Sci, Berkeley, CA 94720 USAMahasin S. Mujahid - Univ Calif Berkeley, Sch Publ Hlth, Div Epidemiol, Berkeley, CA 94720 USA
- Contributors
- J Hagan (Editor)
- Publication Details
- Annual review of law and social science, pp 313-329
- Series
- Annual Review of Law and Social Science
- Publisher
- Annual Reviews; PALO ALTO
- Number of pages
- 17
- Resource Type
- Book chapter
- Language
- English
- Academic Unit
- Community Health and Prevention
- Web of Science ID
- WOS:000413327700017
- Scopus ID
- 2-s2.0-85031695945
- Other Identifier
- 991020111192204721
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