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Aug 8, 2023 · An overwhelming body of evidence points to an inextricable link between race and health disparities in the United States. Although race is best understood as a social construct, its role in health outcomes has historically been attributed to increasingly debunked theories of underlying biological and genetic differences across races. Recently ...
Nov 18, 2021 · In this report, we evaluate health equity across race and ethnicity, both within and between states, to illuminate how state health systems perform for Black, white, Latinx/Hispanic, AIAN, and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) populations.
Race has played a decisive role in shaping systems of medical care in the United States. The divided health system persists, in spite of federal efforts to end segregation, health care remains, at best widely segregated both exacerbating and distorting racial disparities.
- Background: Racial Diversity Within The U.S. Today
- Health Coverage and Access to and Use of Care
- Health Status, Outcomes, and Behaviors
- Social Determinants of Health
As of 2021, 42% of the total population in the United States were people of color (Figure 2). This group included 19% who were Hispanic, 12% who were Black, 6% who were Asian, 1% who were American Indian or Alaska Native (AIAN), less than 1% who were Native Hawaiian or Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI), and 5% who identified as another racial category...
Overall, Black, Hispanic, and AIAN people fared worse compared to White people across most examined measures of health coverage and access to and use of care (Figure 5). Experiences for Asian people were mostly similar to or better than White people across these examined measures. Lack of data for over a third of the examined measures limited the a...
Black people fared worse than White people across the across the majority of 30 examined measures of health, and AIAN people fared worse on half of the health measures for which they had data available (Figure 13). In contrast, Asian people fared better than White people for most examined health measures. Measures for Hispanic people were more mixe...
Social determinants of health are the conditions in which people are born, grow, live, work, and age. They include factors like socioeconomic status, education, immigration status, language, neighborhood and physical environment, employment, and social support networks, as well as access to health care. There has been extensive research and recogni...
Aug 17, 2021 · Published Aug. 17, 2021 Updated Aug. 29, 2021. Two decades ago, only 9 percent of white Americans rated their health as fair or poor. But 14 percent of Hispanic Americans characterized their...
Apr 18, 2024 · Health care system performance varies widely by race and ethnicity, both within states and between states (Exhibit 1). Mirroring national patterns, substantial health and health care disparities exist between white and Black, Hispanic, and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) communities in nearly all states. 16.
Sep 18, 2023 · The data show that racial and ethnic minority groups, throughout the United States, experience higher rates of illness and death across a wide range of health conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, asthma, and heart disease, when compared to their White counterparts.
