A Novel Look at Racial Health Disparities
December 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Blacks, and especially poor Black males, show increases in blood pressure with increases in blood lead levels.
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Interventions to Improve Care Related to Colorectal Cancer Among Racial and Ethnic Minorities
August 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Researchers systematically reviewed the medical literature for interventions conducted within health care systems that have the potential to decrease racial and ethnic disparities in the care of colorectal cancer.
State-Level Variations in Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy
February 1, 2012 | Journal Article
Disparities in life expectancy between Blacks and Whites vary significantly among states and for different reasons, suggesting policy-makers must consider disparity data and its implications carefully, according to this study of state-based information.
Racial Residential Segregation and Low Birth Weight in Michigan's Metropolitan Areas
September 1, 2011 | Journal Article
Living in a segregated neighborhood has implications for pregnancy outcomes.
Education, Genetic Ancestry, and Blood Pressure in African Americans and Whites
August 30, 2011 | Journal Article
This study examined the role education and genetic ancestry play in predicting blood pressure (BP) among African Americans, looking at both within-group relationships and between-group relationships. The study confirms the finding that genetic ancestry is not associated with BP.
Race and Timeliness of Transfer for Revascularization in Patients with Acute Myocardial lnfarction
July 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines the relationship between race and treatment for acute myocardial infarction.
Excess Black Mortality in the United States and in Selected Black and White High-Poverty Areas, 1980¿2000
April 1, 2011 | Journal Article
This article examines national working-age mortality rates and working-age mortality rates in high-poverty rural and urban regions. This study provides insight into how mortality rates in poor regions have changed since 1980.
Masculinity, Medical Mistrust, and Preventive Health Services Delays Among Community-Dwelling African-American Men
December 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This study investigated whether feeling more masculine and mistrusting health care institutions caused African-American men to delay using preventive health services. The authors recruited participants from community barbershops and academic institutions.
Understanding Racial-Ethnic Disparities in Health
November 1, 2010 | Journal Article
This essay from a Journal of Health and Social Behavior supplement is a survey of sociological literature examining health and race. The authors revisit a century of contributions from W.E.B. Dubois to Robert Bullard's study of environmental racism.
Racial Disparities in Stage-Specific Colorectal Cancer Mortality
October 1, 2010 | Journal Article
U.S. Blacks with colorectal cancer are increasingly more likely to die than their White peers diagnosed at similar stages of the disease, probably due to differences in care, according to this analysis of national data from the past four decades.