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Disparities in access to health care. Reasons for disparities in access to health care are many, but can include the following: Lack of a regular source of care. Without access to a regular source of care, patients have greater difficulty obtaining care, fewer doctor visits, and more difficulty obtaining prescription drugs.
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 American Public Health Association estimates that more than 30% of the medical costs for Black, Hispanic, and Asian Americans are related to health inequities, such as unequal access to care ...
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 ...
This disparity is largely due to genetics, high obesity rates, and socioeconomic factors. Complications from diabetes, like kidney disease, are also more common among Black people. Efforts to ...
t. e. Race and health refers to how being identified with a specific race influences health. Race is a complex concept that has changed across chronological eras and depends on both self-identification and social recognition. [1] In the study of race and health, scientists organize people in racial categories depending on different factors such ...
Structural gender inequalities in the allocation of resources, such as income, education, health care, nutrition and political voice, are strongly associated with poor health and reduced well-being. Very often, such structural gender discrimination of women in many other areas has an indirect impact on women's health.
Gender bias in healthcare weaves a toxic thread throughout history. Take hysteria, for example. This catch-all “diagnosis” originated in ancient Egyptian and Greek medicine, but it was widely ...