Discrimination, symptoms of depression, and self-rated health among African American women in Detroit: results from a longitudinal analysis.
OBJECTIVES: Our understanding of the relationships between perceived discrimination and health was limited by the cross-sectional design of most previous studies. We examined the longitudinal association of self-reported everyday discrimination with depressive symptoms and self-rated general health....
| Published in: | American Journal of Public Health Vol. 96; no. 7; pp. 1265 - 1271 |
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American Public Health Association
Jul2006
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