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 ...
The Black population in Canada is characterized by its long-established history and diversity. The present study aims to expand our current understanding of the relation between discrimination and disparities in healthcare by including race and language as determinants of health. We recruited 531 Black...
The Health Disparities In The Hispanic Population The information cited in this paper provides an insight into the health disparities that exist in the Hispanic population. It shows that Hispanics have increased rates of health problems when compared to other racial groups in the United States. These...
Racial Disparities in Preventive Care and Care of Acute and Chronic Conditionsa View LargeDownload Supplement. eMethods. Supplemental description of methods eFigure 1. Flow diagram of sample exclusions to arrive at the study population eFigure 2. Distribution of all health care spending eFigure 3....
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 ...
A new analysis has shown disparities incardiovascular risk factorsbetween black and white adults in the United States, disparities that may be largely attributable to social determinants of health. Investigators analyzed 20 years of data on over 50,500 US adults drawn from the National Health and ...
This study focuses on differences in mortality and years of potential life lost between Black and White populations to understand recent trends. See More About Health DisparitiesCancer EpidemiologyHealth InequitiesOncologyEquity, Diversity, and InclusionLung CancerColorectal CancerGastrointestinal CancerCancer Ge...
Despite comparable living standards and a nearly universal healthcare provision, there are large cross-country differences in population health in the Euro
In part, higher rates of demographic and socioeconomic disadvantage explain higher rates of health damaging behaviors in states that did not expand Medicaid. This paper raises concerns about added long term consequences for population health and growing health disparities between states that did and ...
1 The American Cancer Society estimates that cancer mortality has declined by 33% since 1991,1 with improvements in cancer prevention, screening, diagnosis, and treatment. However, racial and ethnic disparities remain, with non-Hispanic Black (hereafter, Black) patients often faring ...