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work_j6raw36vifaszjhvu2txlpj6vu	Debra Umberson	Death of family members as an overlooked source of racial disadvantage in the United States	2017	6	.pdf	application/pdf	6767	977	70	death of family members at different ages, beginning in childhood. Due to historical racial inequalities in the United States, including poverty, inadequate health care, and criminal victimization, black Americans die at much higher rates than white datasets to compare black and white Americans on the likelihood of losing family members over the life course, this study deaths with data from two national datasets that are representative of an earlier birth cohort [Health and Retirement Study family member loss at each age for blacks and whites; Fig. 1 summarizes ratios of cumulative risk for blacks compared with whites. Cumulative risk of family member deaths before an individual reaches age t Note: Cumulative risk of specific family member deaths for blacks and whites by age t. Ratio for black/white cumulative risk of specific family member deaths. Third, we evaluated age-specific hazard ratios for black and white exposure to family member death (Figs.	./cache/work_j6raw36vifaszjhvu2txlpj6vu.pdf	./txt/work_j6raw36vifaszjhvu2txlpj6vu.txt