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Inequality and Health: An Analysis of Socioeconomic Status and Demographic Factors, Slides of Sociology

Data on the relationship between socioeconomic status (ses), demographic factors, and health outcomes in the united states. It covers topics such as types of inequality, markers of economic inequality, household income and health, poverty rates, and ses & health for children and adults. The data is broken down by race/ethnicity and gender.

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Rich

Poor

CLASS

Male Female

GENDER

RACE/

ETHNICITY

Axes of inequality

• Types of inequality, and markers of economic

inequality

– Race/ethnicity

  • Cultural domination, discrimination

– Gender

  • Control over sexuality, reproduction

– Class

  • Division of labor, access to economic resources

Poverty rates, by race/ethnicity and gender

10

22

White men White women Asian/P.I men Asian/P.I women American Indian men Black men Latino men Latina women American Indian women Black women Source: 2002 March Current Population Survey.

SES & health: children -0.

Percent "Excellent" Health Household SES

White

Asian

A.I.

Black

Latino

Cohen calculations from 2004 CPS.docsity.com