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PubMed2005

Researching health inequities among African Americans: the imperative to understand social class.

Racial and ethnic inequities in health abound in many disease categories. African-American communities suffer from an increased burden of illness, with higher incidence and mortality rates and more severe morbidity in cerebrovascular disease, heart disease, several cancers, diabetes, and many other ailments. Healthy People 2010, the federal government's health plan, calls for eliminating health disparities by race, ethnicity, gender, education, income, disability, geographic location, or sexual orientation. Research aimed at increasing our understanding of these health disparities and designing and evaluating interventions to improve African-American health is hampered by a liberal, classless approach. The authors argue for a theoretical framework in this research that recognizes that class exploitation sets the stage for and interacts with racial discrimination to determine racial inequities in health.

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PubMed1988

Factors Influencing Number of Treatments and Seizure Duration in ECT: Drug Treatment, Social Class.

This investigation studies number of treatments and seizure duration during a course of unilateral electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) in 82 inpatients with major depressive disorders. Therapy with antidepressants or benzodiazepines preceding ECT was neither related to number of treatments nor to seizure duration. An average dose of methohexital higher than 1.2 mg/kg body weight was associated both with an increased number of treatments and a shorter average seizure duration. Concurrent therapy with neuroleptics was related to a reduced number of treatments. Patients in social class I, more often than others, received fewer treatments.

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