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Structural Sexism and Health in the United States: A New Perspective on Health Inequality and the Gender System:
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In this paper, a new line of health inequality research that parallels the emerging structural racism literature is built, and the concept of structural sexism and structural racism is developed. But, it is not discussed in this paper.Abstract:
In this article, I build a new line of health inequality research that parallels the emerging structural racism literature. I develop theory and measurement for the concept of structural sexism and...read more
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Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
TL;DR: This paper explored the race and gender dimensions of violence against women of color and found that the experiences of women of colour are often the product of intersecting patterns of racism and sexism, and how these experiences tend not to be represented within the discourse of either feminism or antiracism.
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A 12-Item Short-Form Health Survey: Construction of Scales and Preliminary Tests of Reliability and Validity
TL;DR: Twenty cross-sectional and longitudinal tests of empirical validity previously published for the 36-item short-form scales and summary measures were replicated for the 12-item Physical Component Summary and the12-item Mental Component Summary, including comparisons between patient groups known to differ or to change in terms of the presence and seriousness of physical and mental conditions.
Mapping the Margins: Intersectionality, Identity Politics, and Violence against Women of Color
TL;DR: The authors discusses structural intersectionality, the ways in which the location of women of color at the intersection of race and gender makes their real experience of domestic violence, rape, and remedial reform qualitatively different from that of white women.
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Self-rated health and mortality : a review of twenty-seven community studies
Ellen L. Idler,Yael Benyamini +1 more
TL;DR: This work examines the growing number of studies of survey respondents' global self-ratings of health as predictors of mortality in longitudinal studies of representative community samples and suggests several approaches to the next stage of research in this field.
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Social relationships and health.
TL;DR: Experimental and quasi-experimental studies suggest that social isolation is a major risk factor for mortality from widely varying causes and the mechanisms through which social relationships affect health remain to be explored.