DONALD A BARR connects low social status to poor health and addresses the overlap between race and ethnicity in terms of socioeconomic status. In particular, he addresses disparities in childhood asthma and obesity as markers for the changing demographics of children in the US. There are excellent...
Access to care, health status, and health disparities in the United States and Canada: results of a cross-national population-based survey. We compared health status, access to care, and utilization of medical services in the United States and Canada and compared disparities according to race, ...
Still, Cook and Mensah said that the results raise important questions about health disparities in the United States and the issues should be further explored. Kovesdy said more research is needed to understand the causes of the racial disparities, which could have major implications for how health...
Get the Deloitte Insights app COVID-19 has highlighted stark health disparities in the United States, particularly along the lines of race and ethnicity. For example, individuals who identify as American Indian, Alaska Native (AIAN), Latinx, or Black, are more than twice as likely to be ...
This study seeks to examine the relationship between race and the uninsured rate, and to show racial disparities in health insurance at the state level by using regression models with cross-sectional time-series (panel) data. Before empirically testing the relationship between race and the uninsured...
Community organizations have been at the forefront of efforts to address the root causes of health disparities in the United States. Ground truth In the bone-dry grape fields of the San Joaquin Valley, farmworkers clip and bag bunches of grapes at a furious speed — they’re paid by the pa...
Eliminating Health And Health Care Disparities Among The Growing Population Of People With Disabilities Fifty-four million people in the United States are now living with disabilities. That number will grow substantially in the next thirty years, as the "baby-boom" generation ages and many of ...
et al. Health disparities among older adults following tropical cyclone exposure in Florida. Nat. Commun. 14, 2221 (2023). Article CAS PubMed PubMed Central Google Scholar Deryugina, T., Gruber, J. & Sabety, A. Natural disasters and elective medical services: how big is the bounce-...
We ask two specific research questions: 1) Do disparities in self-rated health by part-time work status vary across states? 2) At the individual level, how do state institutional contexts weaken or exacerbate the association between part-time work and self-rated health? Addressing these ...
(HealthDay)—Research on health disparities in the United States, the policy implications of these disparities, and suggestions for improvement of disparities are discussed in "Health Policy Brief: Health Gaps," published Aug. 15 inHealth Affairs. Catherine Dower, J.D., from the University of Ca...