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Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life (2004)
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. "12 Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Behaviors: A Challenge to Current Assumptions." Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press, 2004.

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Critical Perspectives on Racial and Ethnic Differences in Health in Late Life

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Front Matter (R1-R16)
1 Introduction--Barney Cohen (1-22)
Section I--The Nature of Racial and Ethnic Differences2 Racial and Ethnic Identification, Official Classifications, and Health Disparities (23-52)
3 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Mortality Among the U.S. Elderly Population (53-94)
4 Ethnic Differences in Dementia and Alzheimer’s Disease (95-142)
Section II--Two Key Conceptual and Methodological Challenges5 The Life-Course Contribution to Ethnic Disparities in Health (143-170)
6 Selection Processes in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentials in Adult Health and Mortality (171-226)
7 Immigrant Health: Selectivity and Acculturation (227-266)
Section III--The Search For Causal Pathways8 Genetic Factors in Ethnic Disparities in Health (267-309)
9 Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health (310-352)
10 The Role of Social and Personal Resources in Ethnic Disparities in Late-Life Health (353-405)
11 What Makes a Place Healthy? Neighborhood Influences on Racial/ Ethnic Disparities in Health over the Life Course (406-449)
12 Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Behaviors: A Challenge to Current Assumptions (450-491)
13 Cumulative Psychosocial Risks and Resilience: A Conceptual Perspective on Ethnic Health Disparities in Late Life (492-539)
14 Significance of Perceived Racism: Toward Understanding Ethnic Group Disparities in Health, the Later Years (540-566)
15 A Neurovisceral Integration Model of Health Disparities in Aging (567-603)
16 Geography and Racial Health Disparities (604-640)
Section IV--The Challenge Of Identifying Effective Interventions17 Behavioral Health Interventions: What Works and Why? (641-674)
Section V--Two International Comparisons18 Ethnic Disparities in Aging Health: What Can We Learn from the United Kingdom? (675-702)
19 An Exploratory Investigation into Racial Disparities in the Health of Older South Africans (703-736)