{"id":13874,"date":"2011-05-18T04:28:38","date_gmt":"2011-05-18T04:28:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=13874"},"modified":"2014-10-09T19:17:03","modified_gmt":"2014-10-09T19:17:03","slug":"reconceptualizing-the-measurement-of-multiracial-status-for-health-research-in-the-united-states","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=13874","title":{"rendered":"Reconceptualizing the Measurement of Multiracial Status for Health Research in the United States"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1742058X11000038\" target=\"_blank\">Reconceptualizing the Measurement of Multiracial Status for Health Research in the United States<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayJournal?jid=DBR\" target=\"_blank\">Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race<\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.cambridge.org\/action\/displayIssue?jid=DBR&amp;volumeId=8&amp;seriesId=0&amp;issueId=01\" target=\"_blank\">Volume 8, Issue 1<\/a> (2011) (Special Issue: Racial Inequality and Health)<br \/>\npages 25-36<br \/>\nDOI: <a href=\"http:\/\/dx.doi.org\/10.1017\/S1742058X11000038\" target=\"_blank\">10.1017\/S1742058X11000038<\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Meghan Woo<\/strong>, Senior Analyst<br \/>\n<em>Abt Associates Inc.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.childrenshospital.org\/cfapps\/research\/data_admin\/Site348\/mainpageS348P0.html\" target=\"_blank\">S. Bryn Austina<\/a><\/strong>, Director of Fellowship Research Training in the Division of Adolescent\/Young Adult Medicine<br \/>\n<em>Children&#8217;s Hospital, Boston<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hsph.harvard.edu\/faculty\/david-williams\/\" target=\"_blank\">David R. Williams<\/a><\/strong>, Florence and Laura Norman Professor of Public Health; Professor of African and African American Studies and of Sociology<br \/>\n<em>Harvard University<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/psychandneuro.duke.edu\/people?subpage=profile&amp;Gurl=%2Faas%2Fpn&amp;Uil=gary\" target=\"_blank\">Gary G. Bennett<\/a><\/strong>, Associate Professor of Psychology and Global Health<br \/>\n<em>Duke University<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The assessment of multiracial status in U.S. health research is fraught with challenges that limit our ability to enumerate and study this population. This paper reconceptualizes the assessment of multiracial status through the development of a model with three dimensions: <em>mixed ancestry multiracial status, self-identified multiracial status, and socially assigned multiracial status<\/em>. We present challenges to studying multiracial populations and provide recommendations for improving the assessment of multiracial status in health research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reconceptualizing the Measurement of Multiracial Status for Health Research in the United States Du Bois Review: Social Science Research on Race Volume 8, Issue 1 (2011) (Special Issue: Racial Inequality and Health) pages 25-36 DOI: 10.1017\/S1742058X11000038 Meghan Woo, Senior Analyst Abt Associates Inc. S. Bryn Austina, Director of Fellowship Research Training in the Division of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2039,125,8,20],"tags":[2889,6376,1187,6375,6374,6377],"class_list":["post-13874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","category-health-medicine","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-usa","tag-david-r-williams","tag-david-williams","tag-du-bois-review-social-science-research-on-race","tag-gary-bennett","tag-gary-g-bennett","tag-s-bryn-austina"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13874"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13874\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}