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Race and health refers to how being identified with a specific race influences health. Race is a complex concept that has changed across chronological eras and depends on both self-identification and social recognition. [1] In the study of race and health, scientists organize people in racial categories depending on different factors such as ...
By integrating into communities and working alongside hospitals and public health departments, CHCs play a key role in bridge the gaps in care by embedding themselves within communities to coordinate efforts with hospitals and public health departments to provide comprehensive, culturally responsive care that addresses the complex needs of ...
Low SES (socioeconomic status) is an important determinant to quality and access of health care because people with lower incomes are more likely to be uninsured, have poorer quality of health care, and or seek health care less often, resulting in unconscious biases throughout the medical field. [12]
A target is needed for eliminating the disparity between black and other minority ethnic women and white women, and the related gap between those living in the most and least deprived areas, the ...
[36] [37] There exists gaps in life expectancy between races with Black and Native Americans having the lowest life expectancies. [38] The gap between Black and white Americans on average is four years; however, there is great variation between states and even on smaller levels.
Known as SB1, the Tennessee law prohibits physicians and other health care providers from prescribing any puberty blocker or hormone that would enable a minor “to identify with, or live as, a ...
[48] [49] The disparities in access to adequate healthcare include differences in the quality of care based on race and overall insurance coverage based on race. A 2002 study in the Journal of the American Medical Association identifies race as a significant determinant in the level of quality of care, with Black people receiving lower quality ...
Still, coverage gaps persist: a recent study analyzing data from commercial insurance databases between 2019 and 2021 found that people cannot access in-network behavioral health treatment as ...