RISK AND RESILIENCE RESEARCH Socioeconomic Status and Health Disparity in the United States Betty M. Kennedy Sahasporn Paeratakul Donna H. Ryan George A. Bray SUMMARY. Low socioeconomic status (SES) has been associated with high rates of many chronic diseases. This study was a cluster analy- sis of data from 9,830 adults in the 1994-96 Continuing Survey of Food Intakes by the Individuals (1994-96 CSFII) in order to characterize more fully the biologic and social factors that might be associated with Betty M. Kennedy, PhD, Donna H. Ryan, MD, and George A. Bray, MD, are affiliated with the Pennington Biomedical Research Center, Baton Rouge, LA. Sahasporn Paeratakul, MBBS, PhD, now deceased, was also affiliated with the Center. Address correspondence to: Betty M. Kennedy, PhD, Instructor, Health Behavior Dept., Pennington Biomedical Research Center, 6400 Perkins Road, Baton Rouge, LA 70808 (E-mail: kennedbm@pbrc.edu). [Haworth co-indexing entry note]: “Socioeconomic Status and Health Disparity in the United States.” Kennedy, Betty M. et al. Co-published simultaneously in Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environ- ment (The Haworth Press, Inc.) Vol. 15, No. 2/3, 2007, pp. 13-23; and: African American Behavior in the So- cial Environment: New Perspectives (ed: J. Camille Hall, and Stan L. Bowie) The Haworth Press, Inc., 2007, pp. 13-23. Single or multiple copies of this article are available for a fee from The Haworth Document Delivery Service [1-800- HAWORTH, 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. (EST). E-mail address: docdelivery@haworthpress.com]. Available online at http://jhbse.haworthpress.com 2007 by The Haworth Press, Inc. All rights reserved. doi:10.1300/J137v15n02_02 13