Racial Differences and Racial Disparities

Marital Status and Physical Health: Racial Differences

Background and aims: As suggested by the Minorities’ Diminished Return Theory, the associationbetween socioeconomic status and health is weaker for racial and ethnic minorities compared toWhites. The current study compared Blacks and Whites in terms of the association between maritalstatus and physical health.Methods: The State of the State Survey (SOSS) included 881 adu...

Racial Differences and Racial Disparities: The Distinction Matters Running title: Taylor; Racial Differences in Heart Transplant

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Racial differences and racial disparities: the distinction matters.

T hose who practice medicine in the United States are unavoidably confronted by the fact that health status, disease burden, and life span vary by population groups – particularly the persistent reality that cardiovascular disease outcomes are poorer in African Americans than in European Americans (the majority reference group), Asian Americans (those from China and Japan having best outcomes, ...

racial differences in secondary hyperparathyroidism

Racial disparities in HIV

www.thelancet.com/hiv Vol 4 July 2017 e281 In The Lancet HIV, Steven Goodreau and colleagues report the results of network modelling studies to investigate the sources of disparities in prevalence of HIV infection between black and white men who have sex with men (MSM). The higher prevalence among black MSM is a well recognised public health problem, and evidence that the number of cases among ...