Although discrimination has been identified as a potential determinant of existing racial/ethnic health disparities, no studies have investigated whether racial discrimination contributes to disparities in physical activity.
In a series of cross-national studies, Gurr and his collaborators showed that both short-term economic deprivation and long-term strains, such as social and economic discrimination, contribute to an increased likelihood of political insurrection.
This systematic discrimination contributed immensely to the rise of Islamic State in Iraq, which exploited the slide of Syria into chaos before seizing the northern city of Mosul in 2014.
Using this proxy, we do find that racial discrimination contributes to inequality, but to a much lesser degree if compared to the human capital transmission channel.
Poverty, illiteracy and social discrimination contribute in the delay to seek medical care especially for skin cancer.
Furthermore, we hypothesized that perceived discrimination contributed to positive and affective symptom severity among immigrants, even in the presence of other relevant factors that may influence symptom severity.
The link between gender inequality and workplace violence bore out the contentions that discrimination contributes to violence and that both should be dealt with simultaneously when planning and supporting a largely female workforce.
Pre-trial qualitative research suggests that a range of social-structural factors, including poverty and poor livelihood options, gender differences in parents' expectations and aspirations for their children, and caste-related discrimination, contribute to girls having shorter education than boys, and perpetuate the traditions of underage marriage and sex work through the Devadasi tradition.
Perhaps just as important, according to research published this past December in the journal Psychoneuroendocrinology, simply perceiving or anticipating discrimination contributes to chronic stress that can cause an increase in blood-pressure problems, coronary-artery disease, cognitive impairment, and infant mortality.
In this case, the model explained 21% of the variance, with the discrimination measures contributing 9.5%.
