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dc.contributor.authorHoward, Jianna
dc.contributor.authorHoward, Jianna
dc.date.accessioned2021-09-07T20:46:38Z
dc.date.available2021-09-07T20:46:38Z
dc.date.issued2017-04-01
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12648/4198
dc.description.abstractIn recent decades, scholars have noted the connections of health, socioeconomic status, and the role that individual, systemic, and institutional racism, legal and de-facto segregation, and criminalization (Wacquant, 2009) have had in producing health disparities, including unequal life expectancy rates between black Americans and other racial groups in the country. Over the past century, African American males and females have experienced shorter life expectancies than the national averages. Many rationalize this troubling disparity by citing individual “lifestyle factors” as a primary cause, thereby suggesting that health outcomes are a simple matter of individual choice. Otherwise known as healthism (Cheek, 2008), this ideology fails to acknowledge how social determinants such as where one lives, household income, and education can impact one’s ability to directly control their own health within constrained conditions. This study seeks to examine the historical underpinnings of racial disparities in health and how they ultimately impact life expectancy in addition to displaying that the healthism ideology is not basis for biological explanation.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.subjectMcNair
dc.subjectAfrican American
dc.subjectBlack
dc.subjectHealth
dc.subjectLife Expectancy
dc.subjectHealthcare
dc.subjectSocial Determinants
dc.subjectUrban
dc.subjectRural
dc.subjectSocioeconomic Status
dc.subjectLiving Environment
dc.subjectDisease
dc.titleDestined to Die Prematurely: An Examination of African American Life Expectancy
dc.typearticle
refterms.dateFOA2021-09-07T20:46:38Z
dc.description.institutionSUNY Brockport
dc.source.statuspublished
dc.description.publicationtitlePosters@Research Events
dc.contributor.organizationThe College at Brockport


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