Everyday discrimination harms health through stress, physiology, and reduced care-seeking.
Evidence
A 2015 review by Paradies et al. found that everyday experiences of discrimination are also associated with a wide variety of physical and mental health outcomes, such as coronary artery calciļ¬cation, high levels of C-reactive protein, high blood pressure, giving birth to low-birth-weight infants, cognitive impairment, poor sleep, visceral fat, depression, psychological distress, anxiety, and mortality, as well as risk factors for poor health such as substance abuse. Discrimination affects health through pathways including reduced access to resources and increased exposure to risk factors, stress, physiological processes, allostatic load, reduced participation in health careāseeking and healthpromoting behaviors, and violence. ā Goleen Samari, Islamophobia and Public Health in theā¦, 31
Categorization
- XREF: Connects to allostatic load and stress-physiology literature familiar from psychoneuroimmunology and social epidemiology readings. ā connects to: Everyday racism operates through mundane, difficult-to-pinpoint microinjustices that damage health. ā David Theo Goldberg, John Solomos, A Companion to Racial and Ethnic Studies, 1467
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