The third edition of Health Issues in the Black Community comes eight years following the release of the second edition and, to our chagrin, presents a picture of African American health replete with many of the disparities documented in the first two editions. Following virtually two decades of...
focused on helping eliminate health disparities for people of color in the U.S. Through the initiative, the company is investing $100 million over the next five years to support healthcare programs aimed at underserved communities, as well as partnerships that address social determinants of ...
Health disparities continue to plague the Black community, creating significant obstacles to achieving optimal wellness. Improving health outcomes requires education, access, and systemic change. Here we provide effective strategies for… Health The Best Way to Approach 2025: A Blueprint for Your Best ...
Racial and ethnic disparities in health care access and utilization under the Affordable Care Act. Med Care. 2016;54(2):140-146. doi:10.1097/MLR.0000000000000467 PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 15. Hargraves JL, Hadley J. The contribution of insurance coverage and community resources...
Black Americans are nearly three times more likely to be killed by police than their white counterparts, with even larger disparities among those who are unarmed. The trend is also harming the mental health of the black community, according to new research published in The Lancet from the ...
(2011). Operating without a safety net: Gay male adolescents and emerging adults’ experiences of marginalization and migration, and implications for theory of syndemic production of health disparities. Health Education & Behavior, 38(4), 367–378. doi:10.1177/1090198110375911. Article Google Scholar...
Reducing and eliminating racial disparities in health care has become a major national agenda. While a fairly substantial literature on Black and African American health outcomes and social service utilization does exist, and may help to influence interventions to reduce disparities, there is no ...
Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services’ Office of Minority Health – Mapping Medicare Disparities tool, 2016 For more information, see the Healthiest Communities methodology. Table of Contents Struggling Communities Dickenson County, Virginia Kanawha County, West Virginia Clay County, Tennessee Wayne ...
There’s no denying that we have substantialracial and ethnic disparitiesin the mental health care system. Let’s examine in greater detail the reasons for these disparities specific to the Black and African American community. “The sum of low cultural competency + limited self-awareness = provid...
The findings show that adults in states that did not expand Medicaid are at significantly higher risk of being overweight or obese, but these disparities are in part explained by higher rates of demographic and socioeconomic disadvantage in non-expansion states. To the author’s knowledge, this ...