Racial health disparities in premature death pervasive in all US states

The latest Commonwealth Fund report showed that, even in the best-performing states, racial health disparities are steep.

New State-by-State Report Reveals Persistent and Pervasive Racial ...

A new report from the Commonwealth Fund reveals that deepseated racial and ethnic disparities persist in health care access, quality, and outcomes across the ...

The State of Health Disparities in the United States - NCBI

For racial and ethnic minorities in the United States, health disparities take on many forms, including higher rates of chronic disease and premature death ...

Racial Health Care Disparities Persist in All States, With Significant ...

Substantial racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care are pervasive across all states in the U.S., according to The ...

Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care - Commonwealth Fund

Premature deaths from avoidable causes vary across states and occur at a higher rate among AIAN and Black people compared to other racial and ...

Explore Premature Death Racial Disparity in the United States | AHR

Eliminating racial disparities in premature death would save the United States an estimated $135 billion a year in lost productivity and excess health costs.

Racial and ethnic health disparities are pervasive in the US ... - CNN

They found that Black and American Indian people had the highest overall mortality rates each year from 2000 to 2019, and that these groups also ...

Racial/Ethnic Disparities in All-Cause Mortality in U.S. Adults

The cumulative exposure to socioeconomic disadvantage and racism/discrimination could have detrimental effects on health that may lead to premature death (i.e., ...

U.S. death rates identified by county, racial and ethnic groups - NHLBI

Through coordinated research aimed to identify and alleviate health disparities, researchers collected data about 19 leading causes of death ...

Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and Answers

Racial and ethnic health disparities result in higher rates of illness and death across a wide range of health conditions. Research shows that ...

Data Highlight Pervasive Racial/Ethnic Disparities in Health Care

The rate of premature deaths from avoidable causes for individuals who are Black was as high as 716.8 deaths per 100,000 in the District of ...

Little Progress Has Been Made in Closing Racial and Ethnic Gaps in ...

Racial and ethnic inequities in health and health care impact individual well-being, contribute to millions of premature deaths, and cost the ...

The Past, Present, and Future of Racial Health Disparities in the ...

But this is only the latest chapter in the long, long story of unequal risk to premature death and disease in the United States. Black-white inequality in ...

Racial-ethnic inequities in age at death among adults with/without ...

In the general US population, inequities in mortality rates (frequency of occurrence of death in a defined population during a specified interval) persist for ...

Structural racism causes poor health, premature death from heart ...

The American Heart Association has declared structural racism a cause of poor health and premature death from heart disease and stroke, in a new ...

Mortality and Years of Potential Life Lost in the US Black Population

Although comparative death rates are a common way to describe one aspect of health inequity, they do not constitute a summary measure and do not ...

Disparities in Cardiovascular Mortality Between Black and White ...

Cardiovascular mortality rates among Black women and men were consistently higher in communities with high levels of racial segregation compared ...

Eliminating Racial Disparities in Maternal and Infant Mortality

African American women across the income spectrum and from all walks of life are dying from preventable pregnancy-related complications at three ...

“Outside the Skin”: The Persistence of Black–White Disparities in ...

Critically, early-life disparities are driven by preventable causes of death whose impact occurs “outside the skin,” reflecting racial ...

The Persistence of Black-White Disparities in U.S. Early Life Mortality

Research on Black-white disparities in mortality emphasizes the cumulative pathways through which racism gets “under the skin” to affect health. Yet this ...