A study of 800 Black American families shows early experiences of racism have long-term consequences for physical and mental health.
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Hispanics born in the US have worse health outcomes than Hispanics in the US who were born in countries from which they emigrated.
With many schools closed, children’s health could suffer.
Getting the real answers on health gaps requires a deep dive into the demographics.
California’s COVID-19 disparities are sobering. Everyone is at risk, but low-income, Black and Latino residents are dying at higher rates.
Pluralism — the active process of inclusion — could reduce disparities in some of the most pressing health issues of our time.
A bioethicist argues that the problem of health disparities existed long before COVID-19 struck with a vengeance in marginalized communities.
COVID-19 has again demonstrated the health inequities that exist between African Americans and whites.
Racism – and the chronic stress it causes – leads to poor health among African Americans. It may change the way genes are expressed, leading to increased levels of dangerous stress hormones.
While African Americans account for about 14% of the US population, they have accounted for about 60% of deaths from the virus. Several physicians offer an idea they think could help.
Many Native American tribes are reporting high COVID-19 infection rates. State and federal agencies are impeding tribes’ efforts to handle the pandemic themselves.
Police killings of black men gain widespread attention, but black men’s life-and-death issues are ignored on a daily basis, a physician who studies health gaps explains.
Audiologists recommend enhanced communication strategies in the time of coronavirus to help the nearly 60 million Americans living with hearing loss in one or both ears.
When the 1918 influenza pandemic struck India, the death toll was highest among the poor.
American Indians and Alaska Natives are the most impoverished and marginalized group in the US. Tribes are working to protect their people from the coronavirus, but they have few resources to do so.
Blacks are at higher risk for many diseases. This is partly due to poverty, discrimination and lack of access to care. But there may be something different about the higher rates of Alzheimer’s.
Minority patients do better when treated by doctors who share the same race or ethnicity But there’s a problem. Most doctors are white, and only 6% of doctors are black.
African American youth are at increased risk for death by suicide. An expert explains why it’s important to better understand the effects of racism, bullying and alienation on black youth.
Americans who live in rural parts of the country have fewer doctors, specialists and hospitals than those who live in cities. It also appears that insurers are working against them.
The recent death of Elijah Cummings at age 68 underscores a disturbing statistic: black men die, on average, five years younger than white men. A study shows racism’s effects on gene activity.
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Assistant Professor of Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences, Tulane University
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Associate Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston University
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Professor of Anthropology, American University
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Professor of Audiology, University of Pittsburgh
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Family Medicine Physician and Postdoctoral Health Services Researcher, University of Michigan
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Assistant Professor of Public Health, University of Iowa
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Assistant Professor of Community Health, Tufts University
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Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh
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PhD Candidate in Public Health, Johns Hopkins University
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Professor of Clinical and Diagnostic Sciences, Associate Dean of Research and Innovation in the School of Health Professions, University of Alabama at Birmingham
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Assistant Professor, Department of Resource Economics, UMass Amherst
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Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Assistant Professor of Philosophy and Bioethicist, University of Cincinnati
