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July 2006, Vol 96, No. 7 | American Journal of Public Health 1152-1159
© 2006 American Public Health Association
DOI: 10.2105/AJPH.2006.085530

COMMENTARY

Minority Group Status and Healthful Aging: Social Structure Still Matters

Jacqueline L. Angel, PhD and Ronald J. Angel, PhD

Jacqueline L. Angel is with the School of Public Affairs and Department of Sociology, and Ronald J. Angel is with the Department of Sociology, University of Texas, Austin. Both authors are with the Population Research Center, University of Texas, Austin.

Correspondence: Requests for reprints should be sent to Jacqueline L. Angel, LBJ School of Public Affairs, University of Texas at Austin, PO Box Y, Austin, TX 78713–8925 (e-mail: jangel{at}mail.utexas.edu).

During the last 4 decades, a rapid increase has occurred in the number of survey-based and epidemiological studies of the health profiles of adults in general and of the causes of disparities between majority and minority Americans in particular. According to these studies, healthful aging consists of the absence of disease, or at least of the most serious preventable diseases and their consequences, and findings consistently reveal serious African American and Hispanic disadvantages in terms of healthful aging.

We (1) briefly review conceptual and operational definitions of race and Hispanic ethnicity, (2) summarize how ethnicity-based differentials in health are related to social structures, and (3) emphasize the importance of attention to the economic, political, and institutional factors that perpetuate poverty and undermine healthful aging among certain groups.






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