Federal forum reports Americans aging well, but gaps remain
...s, substantial educational differences exist among racial and ethnic groups. In 2003, 76 percent of non-Hispanic whites age 65 and over had completed high school. Older Asians also had a high proportion with at least a high school education (70 percent). In contrast, 52 percent of older blacks and 36 per...'Sobering' disparity: African-Americans receive less compensation for job-related back injuries
...eport by the Institute of Medicine that documented racial disparities in health care, the magnitude of the r...edical treatment decisions for different ethnic or racial groups is needed to better understand the disparity. "The first stage of solving a problem is identi...Brain activity reflects complexity of responses to other-race faces
...ter among individuals displaying higher degrees of racial bias on a test that assesses the extent to which individuals are faster in a task associating black with bad and white with good compared to black with good and white with bad. However, all of the participants expressed disagreement with prejudiced ...USC researchers highlight disparities in cancer rates among racial and ethnic groups in California
...y: For 19 different kinds of cancer, one ethnic or racial group had at least three times greater incidence of that cancer than another ethnic or racial group. "Identifying differences and trends in cancer rates by race/ethnicity is the key to ide...Report on health insurance coverage of Iowa children shows gaps
...s with children covered by private insurance. The racial distribution of the families was 90 percent white. However, Latino children were twice as likely as non-Latino children to be uninsured. The number of children in the other racial/ethnic groups was too small to adequately measure differences in this ...Study suggests obesity has lesser financial impact on African-Americans
...alth care that affect Africans Americans and other racial and ethnic minorities?" Study co-authors include Russell S. Phillips, MD, Anna T.R. Legedza, ScD, Roger Davis, ScD, Jane R. Soukup, MS, and Mary Beth Hamel, MD., MPH, all of Division of Primary Care and General Medicine at Beth Israel Deaconess Medic...Authors warn of inaccuracies concerning use of race in health & social science research
... a series of articles, leading researchers discuss racial health disparities and the controversial area of i...w genetic markers for race vs. self-reported race, racial vs. ancestral identity, racial disparities, and the interaction between genes and the environment. ...African Americans half as likely to receive surgery for esophageal cancer
...gery, a new study shows. The study, which examined racial disparities in access to surgical evaluation, rece...noting that SEER data could not completely explain racial disparities in treatment, particularly the role of patient preference and physician bias. "Racial Di...The role of ethnicity in nonalcoholic fatty liver disease
...y liver disease (NAFLD) among different ethnic and racial groups in the United States finds that Hispanics m...gnificantly lower body mass index (BMI) than other racial groups, suggesting that this group may require a lower cut-off of BMI when diagnosing the disease. T...Generation gap found in chronic pain
...consistent with past studies on pain that examined racial differences in chronic pain experience. The new ...reasingly being found between members of different racial and ethnic groups. "No matter what your color or age, chronic pain has a major impact on your life ...Beliefs may hinder HIV prevention among African-Americans
.../AIDS conspiracy beliefs stem from well-documented racial discrimination and disparities in health care as well as past examples of unethical research, including the infamous Tuskegee Syphilis Study in the mid-20th century, the authors say.In the Tuskegee study, which took place from 1932-72, the U.S. Publ...Study links racial and ethnic gap in youth violence to social factors
...f Michigan, shows that the longstanding gap in the racial burden of violence follows a social anatomy and is...tute of Mental Health. Popular explanations of the racial gap in violence - "constitutional" differences in IQ test scores and impulsivity or hyperactivity - ...Good medicine, good economics: African-Americans need equal treatment for pain, SLU study finds
...n injuries were more equitable, particularly along racial and socioeconomic lines, claimants would be more s...devoted to addressing disparities in pain care for racial and ethnic minorities....Minorities who experience pain don't receive the same care as Caucasians
...n how pain is assessed and treated amongst various racial and ethnic minority groups. Data from the article...n Americans, Hispanics, American Indians and other racial and ethnic minorities do not receive optimal care in treatment for pain. "Each article in this issue...Women's heart risk underestimated by doctors, resulting in less preventive care than in men
...this link. "This is a significant finding because racial and ethnic minorities are known to have a greater likelihood of diabetes and death from heart disease," explained Mosca. "We need to ensure that all women are aware of what their risk factors levels are, what they should be, and how best to achieve ...Blacks in the South have greater risk of dying from stroke
... compared the data by age group and found that the racial differences in stroke death were most pronounced b... increasing age, the differences diminished and no racial differences were found after age 85. The average stroke death rate for white men age 55 - 64, livin...Bone density appears to recover after adolescents discontinue injected contraceptive
...of DMPA on bone health in women of various age and racial groups. "Our goal in funding these and other studies is to provide women with reliable information on which to base their contraceptive choices," Dr. Kaufman said. "Depo-Provera is one of the most effective contraceptives--its side effects need to b...African-Americans may need more medication to control asthma
...er, CO, evaluated whether African-Americans have a racial predisposition to a diminished response to a glucocorticoid and whether there was a relationship between response to the glucocorticoid and other variables such as age, asthma duration, age at asthma diagnosis, lung function, and glucocorticoid requi...Americans support most uses of reproductive genetic testing, report on US attitudes reveals
...most demographic groups - men, women and different racial and ethnic groups; lowest levels of support (49 percent) are found among fundamentalist and evangelical Christians. Perhaps surprisingly, a majority (52 percent) of those who assign human embryos maximum "moral worth" - deserving of utmost respect an...Many postmenopausal women with cardiovascular disease don't use lifesaving aspirin therapy
...nment sought to eliminate such disparities between racial and socioeconomic groups, so to find that such a divide still exists illustrates the work that still needs to be done," he said. Berger recommends that consumers get more involved in their health care. Women who have cardiovascular disease and are ...