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Culture, religion, and spirituality were identified as intertwined key contributors to the healthcare experiences of African immigrants. In addition, lack of culturally-competent healthcare, distrust, and complexity, of the U.S. health system, and the exorbitant cost of care, were identified as maj...
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 ...
The United States is the only developed nation without a universal healthcare system, but spends the most for health services. With so many Americans lacking the adequate care needed or facing bankruptcy due to piling medical bills, one must look at the health disparities that are causing this ...
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...
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...
These themes were organized into four categories: (a) health literacy and empowerment, (b) non-belonging and invisibility, (c) barriers to care and adherence, and (d) psychosocial life impacts. Conclusion The findings suggest the need for greater sensitivity and knowledge among healthcare and ...
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...
nursing workforce and the healthcare system. Academic and work environments that support all nurses and students, despite their perceived differences, are essential to promoting an inclusive environment. Understanding the relational pattern that guides the BABN&SN socialization into nursing is vital to ...
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 more likely to suffer from preexisting medical conditions like obesity and diabetes, and who work as "essential workers"...