Health Policy
September 17, 2012 | Feature/Topic
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Racial Disparities
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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.
When Crossing the Street is the Difference Between Life and Death
October 25, 2012 | Human Capital Blog Post
What role does the racial and socioeconomic composition of a neighborhood have on an individual’s likelihood of receiving life-saving bystander CPR?
Racism: A Threat to the Health and Well-being of the Nation
April 9, 2012 | Story
Communities, cities and the entire country lose when racism limits opportunity and the effectiveness of our health care system.
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.
"There Wasn't a Lot of Comforts in Those Days"
June 1, 2010 | Journal Article
African Americans had lower morbidity and mortality, but still suffered from racial barriers in medicine and public health, and poorer health status.
Racial/Ethnic Discrimination in Health Care
May 1, 2010 | Journal Article
People who perceive they are discriminated against in health care rate their quality of health care as poorer than those who do not feel discrimination.