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To answer this question, we need to have some background knowledge on how race and ethnicity play a role in health outcomes.
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Now, of course, there is more to it than just simply the biological underpinnings that some ethnic background or racial background could have.
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Instead, we are also looking at how the socioeconomic profile of the individual will affect their health.
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And if we are looking at it in this greater context, we find that in this general sense, we see the trend that in comparison to white americans, asian americans are going to have a better health profile.
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And that's just across the board, if we're looking at an overall assessment, we find that asian americans are going to have better health profiles than white americans.
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If we look at hispanic americans, native americans, we find that their health profiles are going to be both better or perhaps worse than the health profiles for white americans.
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So in some categories, they might be better, some might be worse, but overall they might be, you know, they have a mixed sort of health profile...