Racial disparities in mortality in the adult hispanic population.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

We addressed three research questions: (1) Are there racial mortality disparities in the adult Hispanic population that resemble those observed in the non-Hispanic population in the US? (2) Does nativity mediate the race-mortality relationship in the Hispanic population? and (3) What does the Hispanic mortality advantage relative to the non-Hispanic white population look like when Hispanic race is considered?

Methods

We estimated a series of parametric hazard models on eight years of mortality follow-up data and calculated life expectancy estimates using the Mortality Disparities in American Communities database.

Results

Hispanic white adults experience lower mortality than their Hispanic black, American Indian and Alaska Native, Some Other Race, and multipl

SUBMITTER: Arias E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7180162 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature