Contribution of major diseases to disparities in mortality.

By Mitchell D. Wong, M. Shapiro, W. J. Boscardin, S. Ettner. New England Journal of Medicine, 2002

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Eight Americas: Investigating Mortality Disparities across Races, Counties, and Race-Counties in the United States (2006, background): “Multiple investigations have documented the consistent gap in all measures of mortality by race, particularly between black and white Americans [1–5].”
Economics of education (2016, background): “Specifically, the risk factors most obviously linked to educational attainment are also risk factors for the diseases responsible for the 6–9-year gap in life expectancy between those with and without a high school diploma (Wong et al., 2002).”
The Reversal of Fortunes: Trends in County Mortality and Cross-County Mortality Disparities in the United States (2008, unknown): “Parallel to this aggregate improvement, there are large disparities in health and mortality across population subgroups defined by race, income, geography, social class, education, and community deprivation indices [1–18].”
Lifetime risk and persistence of psychiatric disorders across ethnic groups in the United States (2004, background): “…has advanced this agenda by identifying the specific disorders, aspects of illness course, and subgroups of the population [e.g. as defined by gender, birth cohort, or socio-economic status (SES)] where race-ethnic differences are greatest (Sacco et al. 1998; Ng-Mak et al. 1999; Wong et al. 2002).”
How race becomes biology: embodiment of social inequality. (2009, unknown): “(Wong et al., 2002).”