Discrimination in the United States: Experiences of black Americans.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To examine experiences of racial discrimination among black adults in the United States, which broadly contribute to their poor health outcomes.

Data source and study design

Data come from a nationally representative, probability-based telephone survey including 802 non-Hispanic black and a comparison group of 902 non-Hispanic white US adults, conducted January-April 2017.

Methods

We calculated the percent of blacks reporting discrimination in several domains, including health care. We used logistic regression to compare the black-white difference in odds of discrimination, and among blacks only to examine variation by socioeconomic status, gender, and neighborhood racial composition.

Principal findings

About one-third of blacks (32 percent) reported

SUBMITTER: Bleich SN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6864380 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature