Beyond Race/Ethnicity: Skin Color, Gender, and the Health of Young Adults in the United States

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Young women with darker skin tones are more likely to report poor health, obesity, and depressive symptoms, and this relationship is only partially related to discrimination, self-reported stress, poverty. https://t.co/RwyB2OKWVE @UNCPopCenter @NICHD_NIH

Using data from Waves 1, 3, and 4 of #AddHealth to examine #health #disparities by capturing the perceptions of #race an #ethnicity ascribed to individuals by others. This study demonstrates the value of considering stratification by skin color and gender

Young women with darker skin tones are more likely to report poor health, obesity, and depressive symptoms, and this relationship is only partially related to discrimination, self-reported stress, poverty. https://t.co/RwyB2OKWVE @UNCPopCenter @NICHD_NIH