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Mapping "race" : critical approaches to health disparities research / edited by Laura E. Gómez and Nancy López.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, (c)2013.Description: 1 online resource (xv, 225 pages) : illustrationsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781461948926
  • 9780813561387
Other title:
  • Critical approaches to health disparities research
  • Health disparities research
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • R853 .M377 2013
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Laura E. Gómez -- The politics of framing health disparities markets and justice / Jonathan Kahn -- Looking at the world through race colored glasses : the fallacy of ascertainment bias in biomedical research and practice / Joseph L. Graves Jr. -- Ethical dilemmas in statistical practice the problem of race in biomedicine / Jay S. Kaufman -- A holistic alternative to current survey research approaches to race / John A. Garcia -- Organizational practice and social constraints problems of racial identity data collection in cancer care and research / Simon J. Craddock Lee -- Lessons from political science health status and improving how we study race / Gabriel R. Sánchez and Vickie D. Ybarra -- Advancing Asian American mental health research by enhancing racial identity measures / Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Mai M. Kindaichi, and Matthew Miller -- Representing the multi-dimensionality of race in survey research / Aliya Saperstein -- How racial-group comparisons create misinformation in depression research using racial identity theory to conceptualize health disparities / Janet E. Helms and Ethan H. Mereish -- Jedi public health leveraging contingencies of social identity to grasp and eliminate racial health inequality / Arline T. Geronimus -- Epilogue : lived race-gender and the racialized-gendered social determinants of health meaningful data collection in health disparities and beyond / Nancy López.
Subject: The essays in this unique book argue for the inclusion of race as a social construction in the design of large-scale data collection efforts and how scientists must utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection concludes on a prescriptive note, providing an arsenal of multidisciplinary, conceptual, and methodological tools for studying race specifically within the context of health inequalities.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

Introduction : taking the social construction of race seriously in health disparities research / Laura E. Gómez -- The politics of framing health disparities markets and justice / Jonathan Kahn -- Looking at the world through race colored glasses : the fallacy of ascertainment bias in biomedical research and practice / Joseph L. Graves Jr. -- Ethical dilemmas in statistical practice the problem of race in biomedicine / Jay S. Kaufman -- A holistic alternative to current survey research approaches to race / John A. Garcia -- Organizational practice and social constraints problems of racial identity data collection in cancer care and research / Simon J. Craddock Lee -- Lessons from political science health status and improving how we study race / Gabriel R. Sánchez and Vickie D. Ybarra -- Advancing Asian American mental health research by enhancing racial identity measures / Derek Kenji Iwamoto, Mai M. Kindaichi, and Matthew Miller -- Representing the multi-dimensionality of race in survey research / Aliya Saperstein -- How racial-group comparisons create misinformation in depression research using racial identity theory to conceptualize health disparities / Janet E. Helms and Ethan H. Mereish -- Jedi public health leveraging contingencies of social identity to grasp and eliminate racial health inequality / Arline T. Geronimus -- Epilogue : lived race-gender and the racialized-gendered social determinants of health meaningful data collection in health disparities and beyond / Nancy López.

The essays in this unique book argue for the inclusion of race as a social construction in the design of large-scale data collection efforts and how scientists must utilize race in the context of specific research questions. This landmark collection concludes on a prescriptive note, providing an arsenal of multidisciplinary, conceptual, and methodological tools for studying race specifically within the context of health inequalities.

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