Women living in a predominantly Black neighborhood gave birth to infants that weighted less, on average, than women living neighborhoods where less than 75% of the residents were Black. #HealthDisparities #LowBirthWeight #RacialSegregation #Neighborhoods #NICHImpact
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34378455

US Rural health disparities: compared to whites, blacks and American Indians studied had 2x level of diabetes and hypertension. They report greater levels of everyday stress (1.5%+), including stress from overwork, the neighborhood environment, and meeting basic daily needs.
#coronavirus #mortality #riskfactors #SDOH #HealthDisparities #Stress #Race #Diabetes #Hypertension

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31011618

Cost containment strategies may mean that elderly, low-income, disabled Americans of Mexican origin in Texas are less likely to have full access to Medicaid benefits than their peers in California. #HealthDisparities #SES #Texas #MexicanAmericans #Medicaid #HealthAccess #NICHDImpact

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31408881

Black and Hispanic Americans were more concerned about COVID-19 than their white peers, and were more likely to know someone who had died in summer 2020. Unequal exposures to COVID-19 risks by race-ethnicity and, to a lesser degree, preexisting health inequalities accounted for only part of the racial-ethnic differences in COVID-19 concerns.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34549286

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #HealthDisparities

Compared with Whites, U.S. Latinos and Blacks have higher rates of functional limitations—likely reflecting a history of strenuous physical work, inadequately controlled pain, lower leisure-time physical activity, or untreated/under-treated mobility problems that can lead to reduced physical function without affecting mortality risk.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32353650

#NICHDImpact #Disability #Pain #HealthDisparities

Children growing up in more socioeconomically disadvantaged families and neighborhoods and children from marginalized racial/ethnic groups exhibit DNA methylation profiles that are indicative of lower cognitive functioning and a faster pace of biological aging.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36459657

#NICHDImpact #DNA #HealthDisparities #Lifespan #Poverty #SES #Aging

The mean number of prenatal care visits decreased similarly for all racial-ethnic groups during the COVID-19 pandemic, whereas reductions in hospital births were largest for non-Hispanic White individuals, and increases in labor inductions were largest for non-Hispanic White and non-Hispanic Asian or Pacific Islander individuals.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36435698

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #HealthDisparities #Prenatal #Births

Black, Hispanic, and Asian adults aged <65 years were all more highly vaccinated than White populations of the same ages during most of Minnesota’s Delta and Omicron surges. However, White mortality rates were lower than those of all other groups.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36653101

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #Mortality #HealthDisparities #RacialDisparities #Vaccine

Latina immigrants reported high levels of social stress (largely attributed to immigration and discrimination) and exposure to traumas, which were significantly associated with higher levels of somatic symptoms.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35257311

#NICHDImpact #Health #Stress #Trauma #HealthDisparities #Immigration

Compared to US-born Black women, low levels of low birthweight births among daughters of foreign-born Black women is evidence that a lifetime exposure to discrimination and socioeconomic inequality is associated with adverse health outcomes for black women.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32482947

#NICHDImpact #FPRH #HealthDisparities #SES

Philippines-trained nurses make up 1 out of 20 U.S. nurses. Workplace inequity helps explain Filipino nurses' disproportionate COVID-19-related vulnerability and deaths.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34230784

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #HealthDisparities #Nurses #Mortality #WorkplaceInequality

Individuals experiencing income loss and food insecurity were more likely to report they would be using a different method of contraception if not for COVID-19, compared to respondents without income loss or food insecurity. A larger share of respondents —14% in July 2020 and 22% in Jan 2021— reported not using their preferred method of contraception due to COVID-19.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34461136

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #Contraception #HealthDisparities #FPRH

Both statewide and nationally, inequities persist in infant mortality.

Learn more about why and what can be done: https://www.kidsdata.org/blog/?p=10797

#InfantHealth #ChildHealth #Healthcare #HealthDisparities #SDOH #HealthEquity

US Maternal Mortality Is Unacceptably High, Unequal, and Getting Worse—What Can Be Done About It? |

#HealthDisparities | JAMA Network https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2807131

#us
#MaternalMortality #news #publichealth #inequality #racism

Older, sicker, and more vulnerable adults in Brazil needed better access to masks, testing and other protection early in the COVID-19 pandemic

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33206833

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #HealthDisparities #Elderly

National COVID-19 death rates are 80% higher for Blacks and over 50% higher for Hispanics, relative to whites, based on CDC data adjusted for age and place. State estimates vary widely.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32511557/

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #HealthDisparities #Mortality

Hispanic/Latinx children less likely to have diagnosed developmental disabilities: Cultural differences in knowledge/understanding of what constitutes a disability or differential treatment within the healthcare system may be the reason.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31292923/

#NICHDImpact #Disability #Healthcare #DevelopmentalDisabilities #ChildDevelopment #HealthDisparities #RacialDisparities

Between 2000 and 2010, the lives of less educated U.S. non-Hispanic whites not only grew shorter, on average, compared with their college-educated counterparts, but they also more became more burdened with disability.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31711225

#NICHDImpact #HealthDisparities #Longevity #Disability #Education

Hispanics may live long lives on average, but with more socioeconomic hardship, stress, and health risk (higher disability, depression, metabolic disorders, and inflammation) than whites and with similar health risks as Blacks.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31771347

#NICHDImpact #Aging #HealthDisparities #Longevity #Stress #MentalHealth #SES

The rigamarole that gets in the way of #AccessToCare is a nuisance to people with plenty of resources. But for marginalized patients, it can become a showstopper that widens #HealthDisparities.
https://conscienhealth.org/2023/07/paperwork-insurance-tricks-and-tools-for-health-disparity/