African Americans and their distrust of the health care system: Healthcare for diverse populations. J Cult Divers 2007;14:56e60.Kennedy, BR, Mathis, CC, Woods, AK (2007) African Americans and their distrust of the health care system: healthcare for diverse populations. Journal of cultural ...
Africans immigrants in the United States are the least-studied immigrant group, despite the research and policy efforts to address health disparities within immigrant communities. Although their healthcare experiences and needs are unique, they are often
Recording the worst medical outcomes of any racial/ethnic group in America, African Americans have the highest mortality, longest hospital length of stay, worst compliance with medications and referrals, and the lowest trust of the healthcare system. Indeed, there are countless well-designed studies...
The treatment of African Americans in The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks demonstrates the lack of ethics in the United States health care system during the 1950s and 1960s. Under the impression that medical doctors at Johns Hopkins Hospital were solely injecting radium treatment for cervical cance...
Medical workers carry a patient into a hospital in New York, the United States, Dec. 13, 2021. (Xinhua/Wang Ying) The vaccine hesitancy, along with an unequal distribution of healthcare and other resources, has contributed to the pandemic's disproportionate impact on African Americans who are...
Among men with prostate cancer who received care from the Veterans Affairs (VA) Health System, an equal-access health care system, African American men did not have more advanced disease at the time of diagnosis or die earlier than white men, unlike trends seen in the greater U.S. populatio...
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Urban African Americans' and white Americans' attitudes and beliefs about health and the health care system are compared. African American media habits are discussed. These comparisons are analyzed to determine how health messages can be more effectively transmitted to the African Americans, particularly...
National public opinion data collected from 1995 and 2001 show that although the public has become more aware of healthcare disparities, they have simultaneously become less supportive of federal action to address them. These data show that the percent of Americans who were aware that healthcare ...
Racial parity in tumor burden, treatment choice and survival outcomes in men with prostate cancer in the VA healthcare system. Prostate Cancer Prostatic Dis. 2015;18:104–9. doi:10.1038/pcan.2014.51. Article CAS PubMed Google Scholar Sundi D, Kryvenko ON, Carter HB, Ross AE, Epstein JI,...