We examined racial differences in concern that people’s health would be hurt by their diet, an inability to exercise, an inability to follow a doctor’s recommendations or disease. There are at least two ways of viewing our findings. One is that although blacks and Latinos did not show differences in con¬cern across the different variables, [...]
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Characteristics of our sample are shown in Table 1. Respondents ranged in age from 18 to 93 (M=40.1, SD=16). The majority (82%) rated their health as good or better. The majority had attended college, had health insurance, had enough money to pay their bills, saw a doctor <1 year ago and had received dietary recommendations. [...]
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Participants and Procedure Data for the current analysis were from a larger study designed to investigate healthcare issues in Durham County, NC. The study was partially based on the Kaiser Family Foundation’s survey on race, ethnicity and the healthcare system. The sampling strategy was designed with two goals in mind: to obtain respondents representative of [...]
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MEASURES The dependent variables were health concern across four domains. Participants were asked, “How concerned are you that your health will be hurt because of: a) your diet, b) an inability to exercise, c) an inability to follow doctor’s recommendations and d) a disease?” Response options included not concerned at all (coded as 1), not [...]
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Previous research has uncovered racial differences in health-promoting behaviors such as cancer screening, exercise, diet and doctor visits. This research suggests that blacks and Latinos are less likely than their white counterparts to adhere to these behaviors. Several system-level factors are thought to contribute to these disparities, including but not limited to lack of access [...]
