In this Q&A, she discusses her latest research with her colleagues published in the Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities , analyzing racial inequities in flu mortality across the 30 biggest U.S. cities. (depaul.edu)
Marked ethnic health disparities experienced globally. (cdc.gov)
Socioeconomic2
HealthDay News) - HIV death rates decreased from 1993-1995 to 2005-2007, but socioeconomic disparities are increasing, according to a study published online Oct 8 in the Archives of Internal Medicine . (empr.com)
however, disparities based on race and ethnicity, socioeconomic status and other factors persist at unacceptably high levels, according to the 2010 National Healthcare Quality Report and National Healthcare Disparities Report issued today by HHS' Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
Racial disparity1
Chicago decreased in racial disparity but it was not statistically significant, meaning we have more work to do. (depaul.edu)
Pandemic5
Health and Human Services officials and stakeholders we interviewed said the pandemic worsened factors contributing to maternal health disparities, like access to care. (gao.gov)
This report describes, among other things, what available data show about maternal health outcomes and disparities during the pandemic. (gao.gov)
Researchers who have been tracking racial disparities in COVID-19 outcomes since early in the pandemic say these trends are now impossible to ignore. (michiganradio.org)
A new report from the Black Coalition Against COVID highlights the racial disparities and health inequities Black Americans continue to face in the pandemic. (delawarepublic.org)
Two years into the pandemic, Black people in the U.S. still face wide health disparities in the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as the economic and social fallouts, compared to other racial groups. (delawarepublic.org)
Outcomes3
Disparities in other adverse outcomes, such as preterm and low birthweight births, persisted for Black or African-American (not Hispanic or Latina) women, according to GAO analysis of CDC data. (gao.gov)
The researchers found that for all three outcomes, Black-White racial disparities were apparent in 2008 and 2017. (healthday.com)
Understanding how psychosocial health influences returning-to-work outcomes in breast cancer patients could be particularly powerful for developing new strategies to reduce racial disparities in the quality of breast cancer survivorship. (cdc.gov)
20231
FRIDAY, Sept. 8, 2023 (HealthDay News) -- For older adults, the prevalence rates of cognitive problems, functional limitations, and activity of daily living (ADL) limitations remain higher in Black than White U.S. seniors, although disparities in cognition have been attenuated, according to a study published online Aug. 29 in the International Journal of Aging and Human Development . (healthday.com)
Inequities3
The new research is a first step toward figuring out why air quality disparities persist in the U.S., and how changes to pollution regulations could eliminate those inequities. (southcarolinapublicradio.org)
Since 2010, children of all races experienced improvements across many of the 16 indicators of children's well-being, yet deep inequities continue to persist. (prb.org)
I recognize the need to address systemic factors and long-standing inequities that continue to contribute to persistent health disparities in HIV among women. (cdc.gov)
Gaps2
In addition to health care disparities, the report points to massive economic and social gaps between Black and white Americans. (delawarepublic.org)
While the report contained no specific details on the city agencies with the biggest pay disparities, James said that the task force would take a closer look at data regarding wage gaps at particular city agencies. (manhattantimesnews.com)
Significant5
While it has long been known that Black and other minority customers are more likely to face service disconnections and higher bills due to inefficient housing, Ohio regulators are not taking significant steps to address those disparities - largely because they're not looking for them. (energynews.us)
Firearm deaths persist as a significant and growing public health problem. (cdc.gov)
These disparities have significant financial ramifications. (medscape.com)
More work remains, however, to address significant disparities, specifically the disproportionate impact of HIV on Black or African American women (hereafter referred to as Black women) and transgender women. (cdc.gov)
Transgender women are disproportionately affected by HIV, and significant racial disparities persist. (cdc.gov)
Deaths5
CDC data also show racial and ethnic disparities in the rate of maternal deaths per 100,000 live births per year. (gao.gov)
Research also shows racial and ethnic disparities in maternal deaths. (gao.gov)
Racial and other disparities in firearm deaths have continued to widen for some groups. (cdc.gov)
Learn how we can work together to end disparities and prevent firearm injuries and deaths. (cdc.gov)
While rates for the HSIs have for cardiovascular disease deaths was subdivided into two improved, not all groups have benefited equally and indicators, one for heart disease deaths and one for stroke substantial differences among racial/ethnic groups persist. (cdc.gov)
20172
Bolade Ajarat Shipeolu, M.D., from the University of Toronto, and colleagues examined the prevalence of race-based disparities in cognitive problems, functional limitations, and ADL limitations between Black and White older adults in 2008 and 2017 and evaluated how age, sex, income, and education attenuate these racial disparities. (healthday.com)
Between 2008 and 2017, racial disparities in cognition significantly declined, but they persisted in functional limitations and ADL limitations. (healthday.com)
Differences5
In looking at the federal report, I did see some differences, though they did not paint a picture of consistent disparities. (edweek.org)
In conclusion, we studied the extent to which differences in school peer relationships explained depressive symptoms disparities between heterosexual and sexual minority adolescents, combining evidence from three samples from the Netherlands and Belgium. (researchgate.net)
Difference-in-differences" approach was applied to estimate income and wealth disparities between injured and non-injured work ers before and after injury. (cdc.gov)
After controlling for confounders, income disparities persisted, but family wealth differences did not. (cdc.gov)
However, experience with the indicators specific rates, was used to measure changes in disparity soon revealed that it was essential to account for differences between 1990 and 1998. (cdc.gov)
Health13
and employment-on maternal health disparities. (gao.gov)
Excerpt] New Haven continues to face severe racial and income disparities in quality of health and educational achievement, according to a comprehensive report released Tuesday by the local nonprofit DataHaven. (ctdatahaven.org)
Each year since 2003, AHRQ has reported on the progress and opportunities for improving healthcare quality and reducing health care disparities. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
The Sinai Urban Health Institute has published several studies analyzing the racial disparities at the city level for the leading causes of mortality. (depaul.edu)
Many of the same factors, including access to care, contributed to the racial health disparities we are seeing in COVID-19 mortality. (depaul.edu)
The authors of the study recommend a health justice approach to tackling the pandemic's racial disparities and the social and economic fallouts that have come with it, saying policymakers should weigh the impacts that education, housing, child care and food security have on health equity. (delawarepublic.org)
We found that racial and ethnic disparities persisted," said lead study author Omolola Adepoju, a clinical associate professor at the UH College of Medicine and director of research at the Humana Integrated Health Sciences Institute at UH. (alynews.org)
Adepoju partnered with Lone Star Circle of Care, a federally qualified health center (FQHC) that caters to indigent, uninsured and underinsured, mostly minority populations, to examine what was driving those disparities. (alynews.org)
The systematic documentation of sexual orientation and gender identity data in electronic health records can improve patient-centered care and help to identify and address health disparities affecting sexual and gender minority populations. (researchgate.net)
Efforts to reduce such disparities should include work place safety and health enforcement. (cdc.gov)
The Region has a huge disparity in level of development of national (health) information systems. (who.int)
One of three overarching goals of Healthy professionals, known as Committee 22.1, was convened to People 2000 was to reduce health disparities (2). (cdc.gov)
Data6
But incomplete data left a muddy picture of these disparities. (michiganradio.org)
But until last year , researchers did not have the data they needed to study how those disparities change over time. (southcarolinapublicradio.org)
Utilities say they enforce policies against racial and ethnic discrimination, but few are collecting data that could reveal whether those policies are unintentionally creating or widening disparities for communities of color. (energynews.us)
So the big picture is that the data does identify disparities in home energy security generally by race," Howat said. (energynews.us)
CDC Releases Latest Blood Lead Data, Confirming that 535,000 Children Have High Levels and Disparities Persist (Hard to Believe that CDC and Congress Cut the Funding, Isn't It? (nchh.org)
Committee 22.1 subsequently the percent of low birthweight infants declined by 19 percent, recommended that whenever data were available to provide disparity in the percent of children under 18 years of age in reliable estimates, the HSIs be examined for specific poverty and in the syphilis case rate declined by 13 percent, groups (3). (cdc.gov)
Cancer1
Nevertheless, in contrast to recent incidence rates, racial disparities in breast cancer survival persist, with five-year survival rates of 81% for African-American women and 92% for white women, and long-term mortality rates that are 42% higher in African-American women than white women. (cdc.gov)
Report5
While we can see that progress has been made in preventing fetal mortality, it is also clear that substantial disparities remain along race and ethnic lines, said Marian MacDorman, Ph.D., lead author of the report. (cdc.gov)
The report points to several disparities Black Americans faced in the pandemic's early years, including access to vaccines and booster shots. (delawarepublic.org)
Additionally, the report detailed that wage disparities for women of color in New York City are significantly worse than the national average. (manhattantimesnews.com)
The first report on racial differentials in the HSIs and disparity in the stroke death rate declined by 11 percent. (cdc.gov)
The index of disparity increased by more than 10 percent for This report examines trends in the rates for 17 indicators work-related injury death rates, motor vehicle crash death associated with the original list of 18 HSIs. (cdc.gov)
Emergencies1
Difficult political environments persist in the Region, particularly for countries with complex emergencies such as Iraq, Palestine, Somalia and Sudan. (who.int)
Access4
At the same time, disparities persist in access to arts instruction for high-poverty schools, though in a number of specific categories, those schools have seen some improvements over time. (edweek.org)
The reports indicate that few disparities in quality of care are getting smaller, and almost no disparities in access to care are getting smaller. (infectioncontroltoday.com)
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ACS's Premium Package gives you full access to C&EN and everything the ACS Community has to offer. (acs.org)
News2
However, the bad news is that racial disparities still exist and aren't getting much better. (healthdigest.com)
I want to get the latest chemistry news from C&EN in my inbox every week. (acs.org)
Enforcement1
Racial disparities in drug enforcement declined. (pewtrusts.org)
Stroke1
These disparities were largest in patients with stroke, and they persisted even after accounting for having a usual source of care. (medscape.com)
Care1
Although having a primary care doctor "was a predictor for seeing a neurologist, it didn't get rid of the disparity, so that's not the whole picture," said Dr Saadi. (medscape.com)
Blacks1
From 1993-1995 to 2005-2007, the disparity rate ratio increased from 1.04 to 3.43 for blacks and from 0.98 to 2.82 for whites. (empr.com)
Quality1
Ma says she would like to see future research about air quality disparities focus on the experiences of individuals, to study the cumulative effects of air pollution, water pollution and other environmental hazards on people's well-being. (southcarolinapublicradio.org)
Black4
Stanford and other doctors formed the Black Doctors COVID-19 Consortium to help address the pandemic's heath disparities. (npr.org)
Black Americans still face massive disparities and inequalities in accessing the right to vote 150 years after the passage of the Fifteenth Amendment, which extended the franchise to Black men. (businessinsider.com)
Due to ongoing racial disparities in felony charges and convictions, Black Americans are more likely than whites to be disenfranchised due to having a felony record. (businessinsider.com)
Research3
Samantha Artiga , director of the Disparities Policy Project at Kaiser Family Foundation, recently published a distillation of a wide range of research on these racial disparities. (michiganradio.org)
The earlier research doesn't address why air pollution regulations that are meant to prioritize the most polluted places have failed to eliminate the disparities. (southcarolinapublicradio.org)
Healthy1
The index of disparity increased between 1990 each Healthy People 2000 Review (5). (cdc.gov)
Women2
It is alarming that the disparity is even greater for women of color in a city that is supposed to be the most diverse," stated Jacqueline Ebanks , Executive Director of the Women's City Club of New York. (manhattantimesnews.com)
It is alarming that the disparity is even greater for women of color," stated Jacqueline Ebanks, Executive Director of the Women's City Club of New York. (manhattantimesnews.com)
Remain1
That includes sections of Southern California and southeast Texas that are notorious for their polluted air, as well as swaths of the eastern U.S. where coal-burning and manufacturing have declined in recent decades but air pollution disparities remain. (southcarolinapublicradio.org)
Level2
These disparities were widespread and persisted regardless of the type of disciplinary action, level of school poverty, or type of public school attended," GAO investigators found. (edweek.org)
Disparities widened due to greater declines seen with increasing level of education. (empr.com)
Year1
We have been reporting this same disparity year after year for a decade. (healthdigest.com)
Continue1
We cannot simply accept the deep racial disparities that continue to mark employment-and unemployment-in the U.S. (nelp.org)
Study1
The persistence of these relative disparities were striking," says Jonathan Colmer, an economist at the University of Virginia and one the authors of the study , which was published in the journal Science . (southcarolinapublicradio.org)
Income1
When adjustments were made for education and income, about half of the racial disparities were attenuated. (healthday.com)
Patients1
Conviser R. Racial and gender disparities in receipt of highly active antiretroviral therapy persist in a multistate sample of HIV patients in 2001. (bvsalud.org)
Service1
Racial disparities persist in electric service. (energynews.us)