Health for minorities: Disparity in Hispanic health care offset by Salt Lake clinicsCarrie A. Moore Deseret News
The review, of 41 studies, found that infants born tominority womentypically received poorer care in theneonatal intensive care unit(NICU) compared with white newborns. The finding was often related to lower-quality care in hospitals where minorities made up a large share of patients. But studies...
1 There are numerous documentations in the literature regarding the disparities among minority patients in cardiovascular medicine, maternal and child health, mental health, cancer, and asthma care. Minorities are less likely than whites to be offered both diagnostic and therapeutic procedures, such as...
An ED screening program identified patients with undiagnosed prediabetes and type 2 diabetes or undermanaged disease, particularly among racial and ethnic minorities and patients with low income, researchers reported in JAMA Network Open. News
Tiemeier said the high disparity can be attributed to the overall health of women, poverty, poor care after delivery and discrimination, among other factors. The issue of maternal mortality has taken on greater importance in the wake of the Supreme Court's decision overturning Roe v. Wade, ...
It is unclear if there is any disparity in the gender categories in this. With this systematic review, we aim to systematically study the gender disparity in the prevalence of mental health (MH) issues among adolescents, younger and older adults in Kerala. Methods A search strategy was built ...
Racial and ethnic disparities in depression care in community-dwelling elderly in the United States. We investigated racial/ethnic disparities in the diagnosis and treatment of depression among community-dwelling elderly. We performed a secondary analysis ... A Akincigil,M Olfson,M Siegel,... - ...
Similarly, there is little basis for firm conclusions about the rate of mental health disorders among African American children – although when present, their mental health needs are less likely to receive treatment than in White youths. The proportion of individuals with mental illness is much ...
in assessment. Primarily, however, this review centers on the evidence for several forms of resilience among Blacks and Latinos that may serve as protective factors for mental health, including religion and spirituality, racial or ethnic identity, and culturally based coping strategies developed as a...
Disparities in Mental Health Service Utilization among Low-Income African American Adolescents: Closing the Gap by Enhancing Practitioner's Competence The lack of racial and ethnic match as a barrier to care in mental health treatment services has received considerable attention. In systems of care, ...