and gender. This will highlight the fundamental contribution of SES to the health of the nation and to racial disparities in health. Failure to routinely present racial data by stratifying them by SES within racial groups can obscure the social factors that affect health and reinforce negative racial stereotypes. The inclusion of gender must be accompanied by research that seeks to identify how biological factors linked to sex and social factors linked to gender, relate to each other and combine with race and SES to create new identities at the convergence of multiple social statuses that predict differential access to societal resources.
