Search results
Jun 10, 2021 · The coronavirus pandemic and the equity movement have shined a spotlight on longstanding systemic problems that contribute to health disparities linked with factors such as race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status and sexual identity. But health disparities don't only affect those facing them.
- Introduction
- What Are Health and Health Care Disparities?
- What Is The Status of Disparities?
- How Has The Covid-19 Pandemic Affected Disparities?
- What Are The Broader Implications of Disparities?
- What Are Current Federal Efforts to Address Health Disparities?
- Looking Ahead
The disparate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing incidents of police brutality, and recent rise in Asian hate crimes have brought health and health care disparities into sharper focus among the media and public. However, health and health care disparities are not new. They have been documented for decades and reflect longstanding structural ...
Health and health care disparities refer to differences in health and health care between groups that stem from broader inequities. There are multiple definitions of health disparities. Healthy People 2020 defines a health disparity as, “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadv...
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, people of color and other underserved groups faced longstanding disparities in health. Major recognition of health disparities began nearly two decades ago with two Surgeon General’s reports published in the early 2000s that documented disparities in tobacco use and access to mental health care by race and ethnicity....
Dataconsistently show that American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN), Black, and Hispanic people have experienced disproportionate rates of illness and death due to COVID-19 (Figure 4). Analysis further finds that AIAN, Black, Native Hawaiian and Other Pacific Islander (NHOPI), and Hispanic people had over three times premature excess deaths per 100...
Addressing disparities in health and health care is important not only from and social justice and equity standpoint, but also for improving the nation’s overall health and economic prosperity. People of color and other underserved groups experience higher rates of illness and death across a wide range of health conditions, limiting the overall hea...
The Biden administration has identified racial equity, including health equity, as a key priority, which has been reflected in several recent agency actions. Immediately after taking office, President Biden issued a series of executive orders and actions focused on advancing health equity. These included orders that outline equity as a priority for...
In sum, disparities in health and health care for people of color and underserved groups are longstanding challenges. The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated these disparities and heightened the importance of addressing them. Health disparities are driven by underlying social and economic inequities that are rooted in racism. Addressing disparities i...
Mar 12, 2024 · Health disparities occur when people and communities experience higher rates of breast cancer, obesity, heart disease, and other challenges for specific reasons that include race and ethnicity, access to care, poverty, and environmental risk. These health disparities have many causes. Mistrust in the health care system, for example, can ...
A healthcare disparity is a difference between population groups in the way they access, experience, and receive healthcare. Factors that influence healthcare disparities include social, economic, environmental, and other disadvantages, 1, 2 some of which are explored in this report. Unfortunately, Americans too often do not receive care they ...
- 2021/12
Aug 8, 2023 · Barriers to health insurance and health services limit access to treatments and to accurate knowledge regarding SARS-CoV-2 transmission, prevention strategies, disease symptoms, and reasons for seeking care. 41 – 43 Interestingly, despite the positive impact of Medicaid expansion on healthcare access, mortality, and disparities, one study ...
Aug 17, 2021 · But the racial health gap has remained, according to a series of studies published on Tuesday in the journal JAMA. A dismal picture of persistent health disparities in America was described in an ...
Health equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Achieving this requires ongoing societal efforts to: Address historical and contemporary injustices; Overcome economic, social, and other obstacles to health and health care; and. Eliminate preventable health disparities. [1,2]
