FrontMatter -- Contributors -- Preface -- Contents -- 1 Introduction--Barney Cohen -- Section I--The Nature of Racial and Ethnic Differences -- 2 Racial and Ethnic Identification, Official Classifications, and Health Disparities--Gary D. Sandefur, Mary E. Campbell, and Jennifer Eggerling-Boeck -- 3 Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Mortality Among the U.S. Elderly Population--Robert A. Hummer, Maureen R. Benjamins, and Richard G. Rogers -- 4 Ethnic Differences in Dementia and Alzheimer's Disease--Jennifer J. Manly and Richard Mayeux -- Section II--Two Key Conceptual and Methodological Challenges -- 5 The Life-Course Contribution to Ethnic Disparities in Health--Clyde Hertzman -- 6 Selection Processes in the Study of Racial and Ethnic Differentials in Adult Health and Mortality--Alberto Palloni and Douglas C. Ewbank -- 7 Immigrant Health: Selectivity and Acculturation--Guillermina Jasso, Douglas S. Massey, Mark R. Rosenzweig, and James P. Smith -- Section III--The Search For Causal Pathways -- 8 Genetic Factors in Ethnic Disparities in Health--Richard S. Cooper -- 9 Race/Ethnicity, Socioeconomic Status, and Health--Eileen M. Crimmins, Mark D. Hayward, and Teresa E. Seeman -- 10 The Role of Social and Personal Resources in Ethnic Disparities in Late-Life Health--Carlos F. Mendes de Leon and Thomas A. Glass -- 11 What Makes a Place Healthy? Neighborhood Influences on Racial/ Ethnic Disparities in Health over the Life Course--Jeffrey D. Morenoff and John W. Lynch -- 12 Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Behaviors: A Challenge to Current Assumptions--Marilyn A. Winkleby and Catherine Cubbin -- 13 Cumulative Psychosocial Risks and Resilience: A Conceptual Perspective on Ethnic Health Disparities in Late Life--Hector F. Myers and Wei-Chin Hwang.

14 Significance of Perceived Racism: Toward Understanding Ethnic Group Disparities in Health, the Later Years--Rodney Clark -- 15 A Neurovisceral Integration Model of Health Disparities in Aging--Julian F. Thayer and Bruce H. Friedman -- 16 Geography and Racial Health Disparities--Amitabh Chandra and Jonathan S. Skinner -- Section IV--The Challenge Of Identifying Effective Interventions -- 17 Behavioral Health Interventions: What Works and Why?--David M. Cutler -- Section V--Two International Comparisons -- 18 Ethnic Disparities in Aging Health: What Can We Learn from the United Kingdom?--James Y. Nazroo -- 19 An Exploratory Investigation into Racial Disparities in the Health of Older South Africans--Debbie Bradshaw, Rosana Norman, Ria Laubscher, Michelle Schneider, Nolwazi Mbananga, and Krisela Steyn.