Rivera Luis M
Department of Psychology, Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, Newark.
J Soc Issues. 2014 Jun;70(2):198-205. doi: 10.1111/josi.12055.
The presence of diverse ethnic-racial groups in the United States today is a source of national pride. However, this cultural sentiment is overshadowed by the reality that those ethnic-racial groups that are stigmatized carry a disproportionate burden of negative physical health outcomes. These systematic differences are referred to as health disparities. Although this phenomenon is fairly well documented, relatively little is understood about the social contexts and the psychological processes they activate that contribute to poor health. More importantly, to demonstrate the processes underlying health disparities does not single-handedly address the issue of social injustice in the health of disadvantaged people. Scientists must assume the burden of facilitating the translation of their laboratory and community-based research to public policy recommendations. This volume of the brings together social, developmental, cognitive, and clinical psychological research on the physical health of ethnic-racial stigmatized individuals in the United States. Each contribution explicitly discusses the implications of research for public health policy.
如今，美国存在着各种各样的种族群体，这是民族自豪感的一个来源。然而，这种文化情感却被一个现实所掩盖，即那些受到污名化的种族群体承受着不成比例的负面身体健康结果的负担。这些系统性差异被称为健康差距。尽管这一现象有相当充分的文献记载，但对于导致健康不佳的社会背景以及它们所引发的心理过程，人们了解得相对较少。更重要的是，揭示健康差距背后的过程并不能单独解决弱势群体健康方面的社会不公问题。科学家们必须承担起将他们基于实验室和社区的研究转化为公共政策建议的责任。本卷汇集了关于美国受种族污名化个体身体健康的社会、发展、认知和临床心理学研究。每篇文章都明确讨论了研究对公共卫生政策的影响。
