@article{ref1,
title="Intersections of poverty, race/ethnicity, and sex: alcohol consumption and adverse outcomes in the United States",
journal="Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology",
year="2017",
author="Glass, Joseph E. and Rathouz, Paul J. and Gattis, Maurice and Joo, Young Sun and Nelson, Jennifer C. and Williams, Emily C.",
volume="52",
number="5",
pages="515-524",
abstract="We examine whether intersectionality theory-which formalizes the notion that adverse health outcomes owing to having a marginalized social status, identity, or characteristic, may be magnified for individuals with an additional marginalized social status, identity, or characteristic-can be applied using quantitative methods to describe the differential effects of poverty on alcohol consumption across sex and race/ethnicity. Using the National Epidemiologic Survey on Alcohol and Related Conditions, we analyze longitudinal data from Black, Hispanic, and White drinkers (n = 21,140) to assess multiplicative interactions between poverty, as defined by the US Census Bureau, sex, and race/ethnicity, on adverse alcohol outcomes. <br><br>FINDINGS indicated that the effect of poverty on the past-year incidence of heavy episodic drinking was stronger among Black men and Black women in comparison to men and women of other racial/ethnic groups. Poverty reduction programs that are culturally informed may help reduce racial/ethnic disparities in the adverse outcomes of alcohol consumption.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0933-7954",
doi="10.1007/s00127-017-1362-4",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-017-1362-4"
}