title: Socioeconomic determinants of white and black males' life expectancy differentials, 1980.
abstract: Epidemiological transition theory suggests that two population existing under disparate socioeconomic conditions would have different life expectancies as the result of cause-of-death differences. The effect of racial socioeconomic differentials on the total racial life expectancy differential are examined as they act through specific cause-of-death differentials. Results suggest that residential isolation of blacks has a strong effect on the total life expectancy differential as it acts through the racial homicide differential. The racial unemployment difference also has a strong effect on the total differential as it acts through the racial heart disease differential. Implications of the findings for reducing life expectancy differentials are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458.
authors.forename: L B
authors.initials: LB
authors.lastname: Potter
mesh_terms: D001741:Black or African American / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D002423:Cause of Death; D006801:Humans; D008017:Life Expectancy / Q000639:trends*; D015993:Life Tables; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012959:Socioeconomic Factors; D014481:United States / Q000453:epidemiology; D044465:White People / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*