Native Americans, on average, die 12-13 years earlier than their white counterparts, with the largest disparities in the northern Great Plains and Rocky Mountain states. The disparity in age at death is in part due to Native Americans dying from diseases at younger ages than white Americans and higher levels of homicide. #NICHDImpact #RockyMountains #GreatPlains #Indigenous #NativeAmericans #Mortality #RacialDisparities
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35300314

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

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 2002 and 2014, U.S. households reduced sugar-sweetened beverage purchases in both absolute and relative terms—racial/ethnic disparities in total sugar-sweetened beverage purchases narrowed, but income disparity patterns persisted.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32362508

@uncpopcenter #NICHDImpact #Sugar #Obesity #RacialDisparities #IncomeDisparities #PublicHealth #Health

Eligibility for COVID-19 vaccines based solely on age benefit older white populations at the expense of younger Black, Indigenous, Hispanic populations with higher risk of death. Strategies that prioritize high-risk geographic areas for vaccination at all ages better target mortality risk than age-based strategies alone.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33791718

@wrigleyfield #NICHDImpact #COVID19 #Age #RacialDisparities #Mortality #Vaccination

@erictopol
#RacialDisparities in #outcomes #Racial #disparities

Higher level of premature births among black mothers than white linked to socioeconomic factors (mother’s education, marital status, paternity acknowledgment, source of payment for delivery) and hypertension in pregnancy. Birth spacing plays a role for non-first-borns.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31561920

#NICHDImpact #HealthDisparities #Pregnancy #RacialDisparities #Birth #FPRH

Young African-American women tend to live closer to pharmacies than their white counterparts but they face contraceptive access challenges such as more difficult access to condoms (49% vs 85% on the shelf instead of restricted access or n/a)

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30788813

#NICHDImpact #Contraception #RacialDisparities #Pharmacy

Incarceration is linked to chronic disease markers and elevated depression risk; racial disparities in arrests and incarceration drive Black-White health gaps.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32648484

#NICHDImpact #Incarceration #MentalHealth #Depression #RacialDisparities #Health #HealthDisparities

Among U.S. Black men, how much life is lost due to police use of force? 3,772 years per 100,000, the highest among any group — roughly 16,000 years of life lost for today’s Black men.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33134523

@wrigleyfield #NICHDImpact #Mortality #Police #Racism #SystemicRacism #RacialDisparities

Extreme racial disparity found: More than 1 in 10 children born 1998-2000 in large US cities were suspended or expelled by age nine; 40% of Black boys v. 8% of other boys.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31258199

#NICHDImpact #RacialDisparities #School #Discipline #Punishment

Health benefits of HBCUs: Attending Historically Black College or Universities linked to 35% lower risk of metabolic syndrome compared with African Americans who attended predominantly white institutions.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33150382/

#NICHDImpact #Education #College #University #HBCU #HealthDisparities #RacialDisparities

"Black women have the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States — 69.9 per 100,000 live births for 2021, almost three times the rate for white women, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention."

So many preventable tragedies.
https://apnews.com/article/tori-bowie-autopsy-olympics-eecc4161f5326bbfb9a64b6ac9f6efb2

#RacialDisparities #racism

Black teen fathers are no more disadvantaged or delinquent than whites or Latinos teen fathers but in young adulthood blacks are more likely to be unmarried, arrested, and earn lower incomes.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31413536

#NICHDImpact #Teens #Father #Incarceration #RacialDisparities

Would the elimination of obesity & smoking reduce US racial/ethnic/nativity disparities in total and healthy life expectancy? This research provides clues.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30891487

#NICHDImpact #Obesity #Smoking #LifeExpectancy #RacialDisparities #Health #HealthDisparities

Black and Hispanic people in Texas prisons died of COVID-19 at significantly higher rates than white people.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36343310

#NICHDImpact #Mortality #RacialDisparities #COVID19 #Prison

"From 1999 through 2020, Black Americans experienced more than 1.6 million excess deaths and more than 80 million excess years of life lost compared to white Americans, according to a recent study published in JAMA.

The findings highlight a staggering disparity in life expectancy between Black and white Americans, and drive home the need for more effective and sustainable health equity approaches in the U.S."
https://news.northwestern.edu/stories/2023/05/study-reveals-striking-excess-deaths-for-black-americans-over-last-20-years/ #Health #PublicHealth #RacialDisparities #HealthOutcomes #race

Referenced link: https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-declines-racial-disparities-covid-mortality.html
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Originally posted by Phys.org / @physorg_com: http://nitter.platypush.tech/medical_xpress/status/1654167273211416576#m

RT by @physorg_com: Study: Declines in #racialdisparities in #COVID mortality in 2021 were largely driven by increases in White mortality @jamanetworkopen https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2804391 https://medicalxpress.com/news/2023-05-declines-racial-disparities-covid-mortality.html

From 2018-20, life expectancy in the US decreased by 1.87 years (to 76.87 years), 8.5 times the average decrease in peer countries (0.22 years), widening the gap to 4.69 years. Life expectancy in the US decreased disproportionately among racial/ethnic minority groups from 2018-20, declining by 3.88, 3.25, & 1.36 years in Hispanic, non-Hispanic Black, & non-Hispanic white populations, respectively.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34162598

#NICHDImpact #COVID19 #RacialDisparities #LifeExpectancy

FROM CNN.com - “Racial disparities are working against disaster recovery for people of color. Climate change could make it worse”

#climatechange #RacialDisparities #DisasterRecovery

https://www.cnn.com/2023/04/14/us/racial-disparities-disaster-recovery-iyw-rd