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      O uso da variável "raça" na pesquisa em saúde Translated title: The use of the "race" variable in health research

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      Physis: Revista de Saúde Coletiva
      IMS-UERJ
      Raça, etnicidade, pesquisa em saúde, Race, ethnicity, health research

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          Nos últimos anos, um interesse crescente tem sido observado no uso das categorias raciais e étnicas na Saúde Pública. Entretanto, isso não tem sido acompanhado por um aprofundamento da discussão dos problemas teóricos e práticos relacionados à utilização da variável "raça". Embora o conceito biológico de "raça" ainda tenha forte apelo entre os pesquisadores da área, vários estudos têm proposto outras formas de definir o conceito e estabelecer seu uso na pesquisa em saúde. Neste artigo, busca-se delinear as implicações analíticas das diferentes definições e usos de "raça" e etnicidade na pesquisa em saúde, bem como apontar seus limites e potencialidades.

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          Recent years have witnessed growing interest in the use of racial and ethnic categories in public health. However, this interest has not been accompanied by a more in-depth discussion of the theoretical and practical problems related to the utilization of the "race" variable. Although the biological concept of "race" still holds a strong appeal among health researchers, various studies have proposed other forms of defining the concept and applying it to health research. This article seeks to outline the analytical implications of the different definitions and uses of "race" and ethnicity in health research, besides identifying its limits and potentials.

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              Socioeconomic status and health in blacks and whites: the problem of residual confounding and the resiliency of race.

              A large number of epidemiologic studies have focused on racial/ethnic differences, particularly between blacks and whites. Because health endpoints and racial categorizations are associated with socioeconomic status, investigators generally adjust for socioeconomic indicators. The intention is usually to control for confounding, thereby making groups comparable and excluding socioeconomic status as an alternative explanation to hypotheses of innate physiologic differences. A threat to the validity of these analyses is therefore the presence of residual confounding. We identify four potential sources of residual confounding in this analytical design: categorization of socioeconomic status variables, measurement error in socioeconomic indicators, use of aggregated socioeconomic status measures, and incommensurate socioeconomic indicators. Using simulations and examples from the literature, we demonstrate that the effect of residual confounding is to bias interpretation of data toward the conclusion of independent racial/ethnic group effects. Investigators often refer to possible "genetic" differences on the basis of models that control for socioeconomic status. We propose that such conclusions on the basis of this analytical strategy are generally unwarranted. Racial/ethnic differences in disease are a pressing public health concern, but the current approach does not often provide a basis for inference about putative biological factors in the etiology of this disparity.
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                Journal
                physis
                Physis: Revista de Saúde Coletiva
                Physis
                IMS-UERJ
                1809-4481
                July 2004
                : 14
                : 2
                : 197-234
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                S0103-73312004000200003
                10.1590/S0103-73312004000200003
                ab270833-9954-482a-ab57-3e92fe03f4a1

                This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

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                Raça,etnicidade,pesquisa em saúde,Race,ethnicity,health research

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