Race and health
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Race and health refers to the relationship between individual health and one's race and ethnicity. Differences in health status, health outcomes, life expectancy, and many other indicators of health in different racial and ethnic groups is well documented, referred to as health disparities. Race is a complex concept, and the two major competing theories of race use biological definitions and social construction to define racial difference. Although this relationship can vary depending on the definitions used, race is generally used in the context of health research as a fluid concept to group populations of people according to various factors that include but are not limited to ancestry, social identity, visible phenotype, and genetic makeup.
See also
- Dark skin#Health implications
- Light skin#Health implications
- HapMap
- Human stature#Average height around the world
- List of countries by life expectancy
- Ethnic bioweapon
- Social determinants of health
- Social determinants of health in poverty#Ethnicity
- Health equity#Ethnic and racial disparities
- Ethnopsychopharmacology
- Pharmacogenomics
