Impact of increasing workforce racial diversity on black-white disparities in cardiovascular disease mortality.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Structural racism's influence on workforce policies and practices presents possible upstream targets for assessing and reducing racial health disparities. This study is the first to examine workforce racial diversity in association with racial disparities in cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study of 39 693 hourly autoworkers from three Michigan automobile plants, includes 75 years of follow-up (1941-2015). Workforce racial diversity (per cent black autoworkers) was a plant and year level variable. Annual exposure was cumulated over each individual's working life and divided by time since hire. This time-varying measure was categorised into low, moderate and high. We estimated age-standardised rates of CVD and Cox proportiona

SUBMITTER: Colbeth HL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11631673 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature