Jim Crow and premature mortality among the US Black and White population, 1960-2009: an age-period-cohort analysis.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Scant research has analyzed the health impact of abolition of Jim Crow (ie, legal racial discrimination overturned by the US 1964 Civil Rights Act).

Methods

We used hierarchical age-period-cohort models to analyze US national black and white premature mortality rates (death before 65 years of age) in 1960-2009.

Results

Within a context of declining US black and white premature mortality rates and a persistent 2-fold excess black risk of premature mortality in both the Jim Crow and non-Jim Crow states, analyses including random period, cohort, state, and county effects and fixed county income effects found that, within the black population, the largest Jim Crow-by-period interaction occurred in 1960-1964 (mortality rate ratio [MRR] = 1.15 [95% confidence int

SUBMITTER: Krieger N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4710482 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature