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Racial/Ethnic Differences in Health: 10 Key Facts

10 Key Facts

Key Fact #1

There is a racial gap in health in early life

There is a racial gap in health in mid and late life

Racial differences exist for many diseases

Racial differences in mortality reflect:

Key Fact #2

Infant Mortality Rates, 1950 - 1999

Excess Deaths for Black Population

Key Fact #3

What is Race?

Why Study Race?

Hypertension, 7 West African Origin Groups (%)

Key Fact #4

SES and Race

Percent of Persons with Fair or Poor Health, U.S. 1998

Life Expectancy at Age 45, U.S. Men

Infant Death Rates by Mother’s Education, 1995

Key Fact #5

Median Income by Education and Race of U.S. Men, 1996

Median Income by Education and Race of U.S. Women, 1996

Median Family Income by Education U.S. Women Aged 25 Years and Older, 1997

Median Net Worth by Race and Household Income, 1991

Race and Economic Hardship, 1995

Key Fact #6

Racism Mechanisms

Major Experiences of Discrimination

Major Experiences of Discrimination: Additional Questions

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Key Fact #7

Homicide: Case Study of Effect of Place

Social Context of Homicide

Racial Differences in Residential Environment

Residential Segregation and SES

Key Fact #8

Limits of Medical Care

Promise of Medical Care

Insurance and Race/Ethnicity, 2000

Key Fact #9

The Effect of Race and Sex on Physicians' Recommendations for Cardiac Catheterization

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Race and Medical Care

Race and The Quality of Health Care

Procedures with Higher Rates for Blacks than Whites Medicare Beneficiaries Age 65 or Older, 1992

Racial Attitudes of Whites Negroes should have as good a chance as whites to get any job.

Racial Attitudes of Whites Government should ensure no discrimination in jobs

Whites Stereotypes of Blacks %

Whites Stereotypes of Blacks (and Whites) %

Unconscious Discrimination

Factors that Increase Stereotype Usage

Generalizability of Unconscious Bias

Key Fact #10

Guiding Principles

Reducing Inequalities Address Underlying Determinants of Health- I

Reducing Inequalities Address Underlying Determinants of Health- II

Reducing Inequalities Health Care

Reducing Inequalities Engage Multiple Communities

Conclusion-I

Conclusion-II

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