Health Disparities in Youth and Families Research and Applications /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Carlo, Gustavo (Editor), Crockett, Lisa J. (Editor), Carranza, Miguel A. (Editor)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
• Series: Nebraska Symposium on Motivation, 57
• Subjects: Psychology.; Public health.; Cross-cultural psychology.; Cross Cultural Psychology.; Public Health.

Amid its growing diversity and shifting demographics, the U.S. is still home to glaring health inequities by race, ethnicity, and class. Yet while it is customary to identify poverty as their root cause, other complex mechanisms are involved in their perpetuation. Based on recent major studies on Af...