Why have deaths from #HeartDisease stopped dropping? New data in the Journal of the American Heart Association tell us it's all about obesity-related heart deaths going up 3X. For Black women and American Indians, #disparities make it even worse.
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/09/a-jaw-dropping-spike-in-obesity-related-heart-deaths/

"Members of the affected Filipino community say they face unique challenges, including the toll of continuing to work in the tourism industry, the inability to access aid because of language and immigration status and financial challenges tied to their multigenerational households."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/asian-america/filipinos-maui-hawaii-wildfires-rcna102375

#aapi #aanhpi #maui #lahaina #climate #environment #disparities

"Pulse oximeters routinely overestimated levels of oxygen in the blood in darker-skinned Covid patients, leading to delays in treatment and hospital readmissions...The research focused on the first years of the coronavirus pandemic, when patients overwhelmed hospitals. At the time, blood-oxygen levels were a key factor in deciding which patients wound up in limited hospital beds and received treatment."

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/08/24/health/oxygen-covid-treatment-race.html

#healthcare #covid #disparities #structuralracism

As Japan releases Fukushima wastewater into the ocean, Pacific Islanders are reminded of a never-ending nuclear legacy

https://grist.org/indigenous/as-japan-releases-fukushima-wastewater-into-the-ocean-pacific-islanders-are-reminded-of-a-never-ending-nuclear-legacy/

#Indigenous #communities #worry #Japan's #decision to #release #Fukushima #nuclear power plant #wastewater will #compound #existing #health #disparities.

"Black women are less likely than women from other racial groups to carry a pregnancy to term — and in Harris County, where Houston is located, when they do, their infants are about twice as likely to die before their 1st birthday as those from other racial groups. Black fetal and infant deaths are part of a continuum of systemic failures that contribute to disproportionately high Black maternal mortality rates."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/dangers-and-deaths-around-black-pregnancies-seen-as-a-completely-preventable-health-crisis/

#publichealth #pregnancy #disparities

"The Rev. Greg Jarrell...said people often waited hours for testing at a site near his neighborhood, even with appointments.

'We saw the severe limitations of the whole system,' he said. 'Who has got time to sit in line for three hours? Not an hourly employee.'

If you don’t set up 'race-conscious and class-conscious policy,' Jarrell said, 'the system is always going to serve people who have more resources.'"

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/painful-covid-pandemic-lessons-mandy-cohen-north-carolina-cdc/

#publichealth #covid #cdc #disparities

"Chagas disease affects people primarily in rural Latin America, where the insect thrives in thatched roofs and mud walls. It is not transmitted from person to person, except for a mother passing it to a newborn, or through blood transfusions or organ transplants.

But it’s increasingly present in the United States, where it often goes unrecognized: The CDC estimates more than 300,000 people living in the U.S. have Chagas..."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/chagas-disease-silent-killer-parasite-kissing-bug/

#publichealth #IDMastodon #disparities

"Latino children living in states with more of these [anti-immigrant laws and policies] policies and attitudes were found to be 1.13 times more likely to have a chronic physical health condition and 1.24 times more likely to have multiple mental health conditions."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/latino/latino-children-anti-immigrant-states-poorer-health-pediatrics-study-rcna100063

#immigrant #health #disparities #pediatrics

Who was first in line to enroll in the SELECT study to prevent heart attacks, strokes, and deaths in obesity with semaglutide? White men. This offers a hint about #disparities in #access to #ObesityCare.
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/08/an-issue-of-disparities-embedded-in-the-select-trial/

" Researchers found that about 22% of Black parents said they were judged unfairly or mistreated because of their race or ethnicity, language, health insurance type, weight, income, disability or other characteristics.

The rate at which Black parents reported this treatment was about 10% higher than parents who are White, Hispanic or who identify as part of other racial groups, the survey found."

https://www.cnn.com/2023/08/03/health/black-families-medical-unfair-treatment-study-reaj/index.html

#structuralracism #racism #health #disparities

How can we use policy to reduce #disparities in #Ohio?
https://flip.it/q1.g1b

"Black women in the Americas bear a heavier burden of maternal mortality than their peers, but according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations, the gap between who lives and who dies is especially wide in the world’s richest nation — the United States."

https://www.washingtonpost.com/health/2023/07/12/un-black-maternal-health-crisis-across-hemisphere-not-just-us/

#pregnancy #disparities #racism

@erictopol
#RacialDisparities in #outcomes #Racial #disparities

"Beyond months-long waiting lists and difficulties scheduling appointments, some patients simply can’t make it or don’t feel comfortable going to their appointments. Indeed, Wilkins noted that neurologists and movement-disorder specialists are predominantly located in suburban white neighborhoods, making it more difficult for communities of color to access their services."

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/10/parkinsons-diagnosis-neurologist-referral-medicare-patients/

#healthcare #Parkinsons #disparities

“While progress has been made, there is still a significant deficit in the number of Black and Latino doctors and medical students,” Health and Human Services Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement last week. “This ruling will make it even more difficult for the nation’s colleges and universities to help create future health experts and workers that reflect the diversity of our great nation.”

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2023/07/07/supreme-court-ruling-detrimental-to-latinos-health/70326568007/

#MedEd #affirmativeaction #disparities

"Blacks may age faster than their white neighbors, according to a new study. This can be true even when an individual Black person has a higher income or education level — underscoring the extent to which a person’s surroundings can impact their health...it’s crucial to recognize how other structural and social factors can affect the aging of marginalized groups like Black women differently."

https://www.statnews.com/2023/07/05/black-americans-weathering-environment/

#environment #sdoh #disparities

"Blacks are up to twice as likely as whites to be diagnosed with Alzheimer’s, while showing equivalent levels of amyloid in most major studies...Furthermore, Blacks and other minorities tend to be diagnosed at later stages, which automatically excludes them from use of lecanemab, which was designed and approved to treat early-stage Alzheimer’s."

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/fda-alzheimers-drug-approval-process-lecanemab-leqembi-racial-disparities/

#drugs #FDA #dementia #disparities

@bicmay
#Racial #disparities in outcomes. :(

"Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally.

Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers. And some states — and racial or ethnic groups within them – fared worse than others."

https://apnews.com/article/black-maternal-mortality-american-indian-hispanic-deaths-64da18fec80f8f1790aee2e9986a757e

#healthcare #pregnancy #disparities

"Bruising is one of the most common types of soft tissue injury experienced by abuse survivors. Yet even today, bruise detection and diagnosis are usually done by sight in natural light. This fails to take account of injuries to abuse survivors of color, which may be barely visible or entirely invisible to the naked eye, despite causing significant harm and pain."

https://journals.lww.com/ajnonline/Fulltext/2023/07000/Addressing_Health_Inequities_in_Survivors_of.1.aspx?context=FeaturedArticles&collectionId=1

#nursing #IPV #racism #disparities