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What Race Means for Health among Black Americans: How Microaggressions Shape Self-Efficacy and Readiness for Behavior Change

2026-07-15

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<p>AbstractObjectives: Persistent racial disparities in cardiovascular health among Black Americans reflect not only structural inequities in the United States, but also the racialized meanings of cardiovascular disease reproduced through public and private health communication. Drawing on ecological systems theory, this research examines how beliefs linking race and cardiovascular disease are reinforced through r...

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Literature Corpus work: e979d155-6bf9-5d1e-abcb-172b17b0a5ab
DOI: 10.31234/osf.io/vr4w7_v2

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