Disability Prevalence According to a Class, Race, and Sex (CSR) Hypothesis.

ABSTRACT: Disability has been shown to be related in definite ways to social class. In modern industrial societies, disability is influenced by and has the potential to contribute to the production and reproduction of social inequality. However, markers of social stratification processes are sometimes ignored determinants of health. A Class, Race, Sex (CRS) hypothesis is presented to argue that a "low-education disadvantage"; "racial-minority disadvantage"; and "female disadvantage" will compound to affect the risks for being disable. In particular, the CRS hypothesis posits that class is more important than race and the latter more than sex when predicting presence or severity of disability. The cross-sectional study of community-dwelling adults between the ages of 45 and 64 uses data from the Amer

SUBMITTER: Siordia C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4628829 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature