Healthcare disparities exist in America that result in Black Americans receiving less or poorer care than others.

HOUSTON (PRWEB)
June 11, 2020

Across the United States, Americans are calling for change. They are calling for equality and reform. They are calling for fair treatment and equal rights. They are calling for a just system. Currently, the focus is on the relationship between the black community and law enforcement. A new information repository hopes to highlight the larger and more deadly disparity in the quality of healthcare that Black Americans receive compared to other Americans.    

The current protests and calls for reform are reasonable and overdue. It is beyond dispute that Black Americans are proportionally more likely than white Americans to be injured by police. But custodial injuries are not the only disparities that exist in the U.S. Healthcare disparities exist in America that result in Black Americans receiving less or poorer care than others.    

Healthcare Disparities in America

Healthcare disparities exist in emergency care, diagnostics, prescriptions, prenatal care and nursing home care. The cause of those disparities can be labeled as economic, social or implicit bias. In the end they all lead inexorably to worse healthcare for men and women of color. Consider these facts:

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  Across healthcare measures, researchers find that black Americans receive worse care than white Americans 40% of the time.
• Black patients have worse access to care than whites for one-third of core healthcare measures.
• Black patients have the highest death rate and shortest survival rate for most cancers.
• Black women who develop breast cancer are less likely to be diagnosed early than white women.
• Black patients are twice as likely to die from liver or stomach cancer than white patients.
• Black patients are much more likely to die from stroke or heart disease.
• Black adults are 60% more likely to have a stroke than white adults.
• Minorities have significantly less access to mental health services.
• The infant mortality rate among black mothers is 2.4 times higher than among white mothers.
• The black community is significantly underrepresented in cancer trials compared to their peers. Because of this, cancer and mortality rates remain disproportionately high.

Learn More about Healthcare Disparities in America

If you would like to learn more about healthcare disparities in America, visit Brown, Christie & Green’s healthcare disparities information repository. This repository is a comprehensive resource providing you complimentary access to:

• PDFs of various academic and professional research studies and literature reviews.
• Links to online resources that identify healthcare disparities and offer valuable information.
• Links to online resources that discuss specific healthcare disparities plaguing the American healthcare system.
• News sources.

Knowledge is a powerful tool for change. The more knowledge that Americans have of the disparities that exist in our society, the more equipped we are to make positive changes toward equality and healthcare equity.

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