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The federal government did not even begin to track racial disparities in health care until the 1980s, and at that time disparities in heart disease, infant mortality, cancer, and other major ...
Even though African-American health status and outcome is slowly improving, black health has generally stagnated or deteriorated compared to whites since 1980. [56] The Tuskegee study was another prime example of health disparities among African Americans. [57] The study showed lack of medical treatment and discrimination among blacks. [57]
Efforts are underway to address these disparities, with healthcare systems and policymakers focusing on interventions such as implicit bias training for healthcare providers, expanded Medicaid coverage for maternal care, and community-based support initiatives that prioritize Black maternal health. [11]
Health is measured through variables such as life expectancy and incidence of diseases. [15] For racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, health disparities take on many forms, including higher rates of chronic disease, premature death, and maternal mortality compared to the rates among whites.
The county, which passed its declaration in November 2020, has significant Latino, Asian and Black populations, each with varying health disparities. Black infants in Sacramento County had a death ...
The Associated Press spent a year examining how racial health disparities have harmed generations of Black Americans. WHY ARE BLACK BABIES AND MOTHERS MORE LIKELY TO DIE? Black women have the ...
Black women are more likely to die from postpartum hemorrhage than women from other racial groups. [72] Disparities in Black maternal mortality persist across all levels of education. [75] American Indian and Native Alaskan women also have a disparate risk of death from pregnancy-related complications that is 2.3 times the risk of white women. [75]
Another small study found multiple barriers to epilepsy care in the Black community — namely, financial resources, epilepsy education, lack of communication with doctors and lack of social support.