COVID-19 has again demonstrated the health inequities that exist between African Americans and whites.
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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.
States that have restrictive abortion laws don’t just have worse health measures for women. A new study suggests that everyone is harmed.
Two experts ask whether dads are making their health a priority. Evidence suggests not. Pressures to provide income often hold fathers back.
Although certain racial minorities are more likely to be diagnosed with organ failure, they are less likely to be transplanted. What’s behind the gap?
On April 4, 1968, Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated in Memphis. At the root of the injustice that King preached about is structural inequalities. An expert explains what that means.
Prostate cancer outcomes have differed between black men and other ethnic groups for decades. Could improving the way doctors talk and share information with black patients make a difference?
More people than ever are living with HIV, but people may overlook the fact that many of these long-term survivors are African-American women. They face unique social and health challenges.
African-American women aging with HIV often have histories of abuse and trauma, in addition to other medical conditions. Here, a few share their stories.
Top contributors
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Associate Professor of Family Medicine, Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science
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Professor of Anthropology, American University
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Research Assistant Professor of Social, Behavioral and Population Sciences, Tulane University
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Assistant Professor of Health Law, Policy and Management, Boston 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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Associate Professor of Pharmacy and Therapeutics, University of Pittsburgh
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Associate Professor of Psychology and Psychiatry, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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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 of Community Health, Tufts University
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Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Neuroscience, Emory University
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Associate Vice Provost for Health Sciences and Associate Professor, Mississippi State University
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, University of Memphis
