UAA Professors Gabriel Garcia and Marny Rivera co-author article for 'Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice'

Gabriel Garcia, Ph.D., faculty in the Department of Health Sciences, and Marny Rivera, Ph.D., Justice Center faculty, published an article titled "Is Race a Factor in Disparate Health Problems Associated with Violence Against Women?") in the current issue of the Journal of Health Disparities Research and Practice (Vol. 7, Issue 7, 2014).

In the article, Garcia and Rivera note that "[r]esearch studies examining the health correlates of violence against women have consistently demonstrated associations between violence and poor health outcomes, but have not examined a disparate impact on racial minorities... This study found that victimization increased the odds of health problems for all women, but significantly more so for minority women."

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