Segregation, Poverty, and Mortality in Urban African Americans

Despite allowances for economic disparity, mortality rates for African -American infants and young adults are especially high in certain high ly-segregated areas--a traditional indicator of low levels of social p rogress. Polednak includes previously unpublished analyses of the find ings along with data from prior calendar years and the 1990 U.S. censu s. He uses the statistical method (multiple linear regression) to anal yze poverty rates and levels of segregation amongst African-Americans. The author's discussion of social and health issues fits within the f ramework of Swedish economist Gunnar Myrdal's "American dilemma" thesi s that the American creed of egalitarianism, equal opportunity and fre edom from discrimination remains unfulfilled. The conclusions are expe cted to foster interest, on behalf of both epidemiologists and sociolo gists, in what may be termed the "epidemiology of American apartheid"- -a specialized field of research with concrete relevance to social and health policy.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Author: Polednak, Anthony P.
Published: 02/13/1997
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780195111651
Pages: 192
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.48h x 6.16w x 0.68d