????__________ has been proposed as a way of accounting for group differences in health.

A) Hardiness
B) Psychoneuroimmunology
C) Racial patterning
D) Racial profiling

Racial Patterning

The distribution or arrangement of racial or ethnic characteristics in a population or social context.

Group Differences

Variations or disparities in attributes, behaviors, or outcomes observed between distinct categories or clusters of individuals.

Health

A state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.