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Racial bias fuels healthcare disparities. Unconscious bias meets algorithms. Black communities disproportionately affected. Sustainable healthcare changes. When we seek medical care, we all hope ...
The Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved is an academic journal founded in 1990 by David Satcher, then President of Meharry Medical College who later became the 16th Surgeon General of the United States. JHCPU is published by the Johns Hopkins University Press for Meharry and is affiliated with the Association of Clinicians for ...
Prostate cancer: Black men are 73% more likely to develop prostate cancer than white men and are twice as likely to die of it. Colorectal cancer: Largely due to disparities in screening, Black ...
Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, is director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH).He sat down with WebMD to discuss the ...
Data from the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2021 showed that only 5.08% of the psychology workforce was Black — as opposed to 80.85% being white. According to Owoo, this disparity ...
By the passage of the Minority Health and Health Disparities Research and Education Act, NIMHD was established in 2000 as an NIH center with the initial title of National Center on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NCMHD). It became a full institute, with its present name, on September 13, 2010, under the Affordable Care Act.
The Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions ( HCHDS ), a research center within the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, strives to eradicate disparities in health and health care among racial and ethnic groups, socioeconomic groups, and geopolitical categories such as urban, rural, and suburban populations.
Medical students aren’t given sufficient information about the impact of racism on patients’ health outcomes or access to care. ... contributing to race/ethnic disparities in health outcomes ...