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Fact Sheet: Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity

What are the health disparities due to race?
The data show that racial and ethnic minority groups, throughout the United States, experience higher rates of illness and death across a wide range of health conditions, including diabetes, hypertension, obesity, asthma, and heart disease, when compared to their White counterparts.
What is racial and ethnic disparities?
Racial and ethnic disparity refers to unequal treatment of youth of color in the juvenile justice system.
RED results in disparate outcomes for similarly situated youth.
Disparate treatment can happen at all stages of the juvenile justice system, from arrest, summons, processing, arraignment, detention and commitment.
What are the most common health disparities?
Health disparities include the following:
Mortality.Life expectancy.Burden of disease.Mental health.Uninsured/underinsured.Lack of access to care.
Racial/ethnic and socioeconomic differences are greater in some dimensions of health and from some causes than others.
For example, black men have higher death rates from heart disease than white men, but they do not differ in the prevalence of reported heart disease (Hayward et al., 2000).

16 déc. 2010 · Download this fact sheet (pdf). Below are the facts that outline racial and ethnic health care disparities in the United States.Autres questions

Fact Sheet: Health Disparities by Race and Ethnicity

What are the health disparities due to race?

What is racial and ethnic disparities?

What are the most common health disparities?

Health disparities include the following: