TY  - JOUR
PY  - 2017//
TI  - Intersections of poverty, race/ethnicity, and sex: alcohol consumption and adverse outcomes in the United States
JO  - Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology
A1  - Glass, Joseph E.
A1  - Rathouz, Paul J.
A1  - Gattis, Maurice
A1  - Joo, Young Sun
A1  - Nelson, Jennifer C.
A1  - Williams, Emily C.
SP  - 515
EP  - 524
VL  - 52
IS  - 5
N2  - 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>
LA  - en
SN  - 0933-7954
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00127-017-1362-4
ID  - ref1
ER  -