This analysis focuses on the college completion gap between underrepresented minority students and White students, or the Hispanic -White and Black -White racial college completion gaps, given the unprecedented demographic growth of these populations in the United States as well as the nation's public...
Several studies have found that racially and socioeconomically marginalized populations have disproportionately high exposure to oil and gas wells in several parts of the United States (U.S.). Johnston et al. (2016) found that, in the Eagle Ford region in southern Texas, the proportion of peopl...
Over the last decade, America has become increasingly more diverse as demographic patterns shift across the population. With over 39 million people, California is not only the most populous state, but one of the most diverse in the country. ...
Demographic representation has been shown to improve health care access for underserved populations, improve the cultural effectiveness of the physician workforce as a whole, and improve medical research and innovation for all populations.3-5 In response to the LCME diversity guidelines, several studies...
Data from the Texas Cancer Registry linked with Medicare claims records for patients age ≥66 years who died 6 months to 5 years after a primary CRC diagnosis between 2010 and 2018 was analyzed. Number (proportion) of Non-Hispanic Black (NHB), Non-Hispanic White (NHW) and Hispanic decedents...
1 Evidence has repeatedly demonstrated disproportionately higher risk of COVID-19 incidence, hospitalization, and death in racial and ethnic minority groups.2-4 Gender- and sex-based differences in COVID-19 incidence and outcomes have also been shown.5 Moreover, these demographic domains have also...
This article describes differences in patterns of diet-related cancers among racial and ethnic groups. The objective is to demonstrate the potential insights about the possible role of diet in cancer etiology that might be gained from appropriately desig
et al. Texas Troopers Ticketing Hispanic Drivers as White (KXAN, 2015); https://www.kxan.com/investigations/texas-troopers-ticketing-hispanic-drivers-as-white/ Word, D., Coleman, C., Nunziata, R. & Kominski, R. Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000 http://www2.census.gov/...
2 lies in visually examining a map for a particular year to discern regional disparities in the diversity and segregation of US cities, and to observe how these disparities evolve over time. For instance, the 1990 map clearly indicates that cities in regions 9 (California) and 6 (Texas) ...
cases from January 22 to August 31, 2020 as well as explicit and implicit racial attitudes—collected through Harvard University's Project Implicit. The researchers also obtained a wide spectrum of demographic and economic information for these communities so that they could control for these factors...