Expressed racial identity and hypertension in a telephone survey sample from Toronto and Vancouver, Canada: do socioeconomic status, perceived discrimination and psychosocial stress explain the relatively high risk of hypertension for Black Canadians?

INTRODUCTION: Canadian research on racial health inequalities that foregrounds socially constructed racial identities and social factors which can explain consequent racial health inequalities is rare. This paper adopts a social typology of salient racial identities in contemporary Canada, empirical...

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Main Author: Veenstra, Gerry
Format: Artigo
Language:Inglês
Published: BioMed Central 2012
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Research
Online Access:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3520873/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23061401
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1475-9276-11-58
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