Potter L B
Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Fordham University, Bronx, NY 10458.
Demography. 1991 May;28(2):303-21.
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.
流行病学转变理论表明，处于不同社会经济条件下的两个人口群体，由于死因差异，预期寿命会有所不同。研究了种族社会经济差异通过特定死因差异对种族总体预期寿命差异的影响。结果表明，黑人的居住隔离通过种族凶杀案差异对总体预期寿命差异有很大影响。种族失业差异通过种族心脏病差异对总体差异也有很大影响。讨论了这些发现对缩小预期寿命差异的意义。
