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Study: Many say racial disparities genetic
In the study, scheduled to be published in the Social Science Quarterly, people voiced strong concern about economic-based disparities and suggested government intervention would help to alleviate the imbalance.
However, more than 60 percent say they believed the racially-based disparities -- primarily between African-Americans and Caucasians -- were a result of genetic differences that may cause chronic conditions or recurring diseases.
This perception led respondents to view racially-based disparities as less problematic and more resistant to government-based solutions, and to be less supportive of proposals aimed at eliminating health disparities, the researchers say.
Head researcher Elizabeth Rigby of the University of Houston, Joe Soss of the University of Minnesota, and Bridget C. Booske, Angela M. K. Rohan and Stephanie A. Robert, all of the University of Wisconsin-Madison say, on the whole, American health statistics point to stark differences in the well being and health among different social groups.
The fact that college graduates are expected to live at least five years longer than Americans who have not completed high school, and that African-Americans are twice as likely as whites to be in fair or poor health, raises serious concerns, the researchers say.
Copyright 2009 by United Press International
This news arrived on: 10/20/2009
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10-21-2009 12:10
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Health disparities
Back when many of the ancestors were slaves, I see no evidence of disparities, seems they were ill and died at about the same rate as the owners. The ambitious ones who were fortunate enough and they certainly all were not, those with good owners often schooled the children as they did their own up through basics. This was not the general rule, possibly and probably not, but when it happened they seemed to learn about the same rate as the owners children. Once free, and able to come and go, time for school probably became rarer for life was not easy, nor was money for medications. What happened along the way, only God knows, but I do not think it was genetics. I see brilliant blacks, great people who are black, have friends and have worked with blacks who were who were no different than my white friends and co-workers. Many of whites and blacks problems are choices. Oh, how it bothers me to see white or black people just throw away their lives and it happens every day. So pathetic and heartbreaking, color does not matter a wasted mind and life is horrible.
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