Dimensions of racial identity and perceived discrimination in health care

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5072479/pdf/ethndis-26-501.pdf" target="_blank" >https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5072479/pdf/ethndis-26-501.pdf</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.18865/ed.26.4.501" target="_blank" >10.18865/ed.26.4.501</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Dimensions of racial identity and perceived discrimination in health care

Original language description

Objective: Perceived discrimination is an important risk factor for minority health. Drawing from the scholarship on multi-dimensionality of race, this study examines the relationships between perceived discrimination in health care and two dimensions of racial identity: self-identified race/ethnicity and perceived attributed race/ethnicity (respondents' perceptions of how they are racially classified by others). Methods: We used Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System data collected in 2004-2013 and we specifically examined the data on perceived racial discrimination in health care during the past 12 months, perceived attributed race/ethnicity, and self-identified race/ethnicity. Results: In models adjusting for sociodemographic and other factors, both dimensions of racial/ethnic identity contributed independently to perceived discrimination in health care. After controlling for self-identified race/ethnicity, respondents who reported being classified as Black, Asian, Hispanic, and Native American had higher likelihood of perceived discrimination than respondents who reported being classified as White. Similarly, after taking perceived attributed race/ethnicity into account, self-identified Blacks, Native Americans, and multiracial respondents were more likely to report perceived discrimination than counterparts who self-identified as White. The model using only perceived attributed race/ethnicity to predict perceived discrimination showed a superior fit with the data than the model using only self-identified race/ethnicity. Conclusion: Perceived attributed race/ethnicity captures an aspect of racial/ethnic identity that is correlated, but not interchangeable, with self-identified race/ethnicity and contributes uniquely to perceived discrimination in health care. Applying the concept of multidimensionality of race/ethnicity to health disparities research may reveal understudied mechanisms linking race/ethnicity to health risks.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_imp - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

30304 - Public and environmental health

Project

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Continuities

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Publication year

2016

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

ETHNICITY & DISEASE

ISSN

1049-510X

e-ISSN

1945-0826

Volume of the periodical

26

Issue of the periodical within the volume

4

Country of publishing house

US - UNITED STATES

Number of pages

12

Pages from-to

501-512

UT code for WoS article

000393200300005

EID of the result in the Scopus database

2-s2.0-84994837851