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2. Health Disparities in the Black Community: Conditions, Causes

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   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 ...

3. Racial Bias in Healthcare: How Disparities Affect Communities ...

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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 ...

4. Why Are Drugs Like Ozempic More Difficult to Access for Black ...

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   Diabetes and obesity disproportionately impact Black people, yet they are facing greater challenges gaining access to GLP-1 medications like Ozempic that could help treat these conditions ...

5. NIH’s Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, Talks Health Disparities ...

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   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 ...

6. Black Health Matters: Putting the 'Care' Back in Healthcare

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   The Society of Black Academic Surgeons (SBAS) diversifies faculty in academic surgery, promotes their members into leadership positions, and eliminates health disparities against BIPOC patients.

7. Understanding Racism's Effect in Mental Healthcare

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   Effects. Culturally competent providers. Addressing problems. Takeaway. Racism affects all areas of mental health care for people of color, but resources can help you find culturally competent ...

8. What Are Health Equality and Equity, and Why Do They Matter?

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   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 ...

9. It's Time to Address the Racial Disparities in Healthcare

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   With the murder of George Floyd and the rise of the Black Lives Matter movement, the American public has been awakened to what many have known for years: Racism affects every aspect of daily life ...