Authors: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, The Office of Minority Health

Publication Year: 2009

Journal: National Association for the Advancement of Colored People

Keywords: Health Disparities, Heart Disease, Stroke, Heart Attack, cancer, asthma, influenza, pneumonia, diabetes, HIV, AIDS, homicide, NAACP, National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, Education, Access to Health Care

Abstract:

Poor outcomes in education and economics are closely tied to poor outcomes in health. Like the disparities in education, disparities in health persist from the beginning of life onwards. The black infant mortality rate is more than twice as high as that for white infants. The following statistics give some illustration of other grave health concerns that disproportionately affect African Americans.

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