Growing sense of social status threat and concomitant deaths of despair among whites

• Main Authors: Arjumand Siddiqi (Author), Odmaa Sod-Erdene (Author), Darrick Hamilton (Author), Tressie McMillan Cottom (Author), William Darity, Jr (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Elsevier, 2019-12-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Background: A startling population health phenomenon has been unfolding since the turn of the 21st century. Whites in the United States, who customarily have the most favorable mortality profile of all racial groups, have experienced rising mortality rates, without a commensurate rise in other racia...