Racial inequalities in exposure to household member deaths: A “hidden” social determinant of health?

Losing a family member is stressful, especially if that person is a household member. Since Black people are both more likely to live in a home that includes extended family members and also face lower life expectancy than White people, former Bell Fellow and current visiting scientist Angela Dixon set out to explore the impacts of this increased likelihood of exposure to the death of a household member among Black people in a paper, published in SSM–Population Health, contributing novel insights into racial inequities in health in the United States.