- The National Academies
- Committee on Population 2004
- Panel on Race, Ethnicity, and Health in Later Life
- Contributors
- Preface
- 1. Introduction
- I. The Nature of Racial and Ethnic Differences
- II. Two Key Conceptual and Methodological Challenges
- III. The Search for Causal Pathways
- 8. Genetic Factors in Ethnic Disparities in Health
- 9. Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health
- 10. The Role of Social and Personal Resources in Ethnic Disparities in Late-Life Health
- 11. What Makes a Place Healthy? Neighborhood Influences on Racial/ Ethnic Disparities in Health over the Life Course
- 12. Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Behaviors: A Challenge to Current Assumptions
- 13. Cumulative Psychosocial Risks and Resilience: A Conceptual Perspective on Ethnic Health Disparities in Late Life
- 14. Significance of Perceived Racism: Toward Understanding Ethnic Group Disparities in Health, the Later Years
- 15. A Neurovisceral Integration Model of Health Disparities in Aging
- 16. Geography and Racial Health Disparities
- IV. The Challenge of Identifying Effective Interventions
- V. Two International Comparisons