Sondik E J, Lucas J W, Madans J H, Smith S S
National Center for Health Statistics, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Hyattsville, MD 20782, USA.
Am J Public Health. 2000 Nov;90(11):1709-13. doi: 10.2105/ajph.90.11.1709.
This article addresses the potential impact of the revised standards for race and ethnicity on data from the 2000 census and public health data sources, policies, and programs.
The authors examine the relationship between race/ethnicity and health in selected measures, identify the factors that influence race/ethnicity identification, consider past experience in race/ethnicity reporting, and explore the challenges in understanding and managing the effects of new racial/ethnic categories in various data sets.
The multiple-race group seems to compose only a small percentage of the US population and may have little impact on data for single-race groups. Actual effects will vary according to a number of factors, including the size, composition, and geographic distribution of the group.
More research is needed to support a thorough understanding of the reporting of multirace data and the development of techniques for analyzing these data. Given the importance of understanding the relationship between race/ethnicity and health, the ability to produce useful, comparable, and meaningful data is essential.
本文探讨了种族和族裔修订标准对2000年人口普查数据以及公共卫生数据源、政策和项目的潜在影响。
作者研究了选定指标中种族/族裔与健康之间的关系，确定了影响种族/族裔认定的因素，考量了过去种族/族裔报告方面的经验，并探讨了理解和管理各种数据集中新种族/族裔类别影响所面临的挑战。
多种族群体似乎仅占美国人口的一小部分，可能对单一种族群体的数据影响不大。实际影响会因多种因素而有所不同，包括该群体的规模、构成和地理分布。
需要开展更多研究，以全面了解多种族数据的报告情况，并开发分析这些数据的技术。鉴于理解种族/族裔与健康之间关系的重要性，生成有用、可比且有意义的数据的能力至关重要。
