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‘Bearing the Cost’ research shows gender, racial wage gap costs billions annually WASHINGTON – New research released today by the U.S. Department of Labor reveals that Black women lost $42.7 billion in wages compared to white men in 2023, and Hispanic women lost $53.3 billion in wages. These losses are driven entirely by the fact that […]
How History Has Shaped Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities: A Timeline of Policies and Events | KFF KFF Source link
More progress needs to be made to improve outcomes for Black women with breast cancer. Here’s how BCRF investigators are addressing the challenge. In the United States, breast cancer continues to be the most common cancer and the leading cause of cancer death in women. In 2024, the American Cancer Society (ACS)
medical screening in commemoration of the International Day for Women at the Mobolaji Johnson Arena in Lagos, Nigeria. (Photo by: Emmanuel Osodi/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images)Emmanuel Osodi/Majority World/Universal Images Group via Getty Images Black women living in America are nearly 50 percent more likely to have high blood pressure when compared to non-Hispanic […]
At a Pennsylvania hospital, a Black nurse said her emergency room colleagues routinely withheld pain medication from Black patients who sought relief from sickle cell disease. In Montana, a phlebotomist said fellow health care workers often made “ignorant comments” about the hospital’s Native American patients. Both of these accounts surfaced in a report this week […]
Black adults across the United States suffer from sleep problems following exposure to news about unarmed Black individuals killed by police during police encounters, according to new findings published in JAMA Internal Medicine from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine. The issue, researchers say, may compound the risk factors that poor sleep already poses for many […]
African Americans are disproportionately harder hit by cardiovascular disease risk factors and are as much as three times more likely to die from heart disease than non-Hispanic whites, according to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Heart Association. That’s why healthcare professionals emphasize that the connection between two major observances, […]
Older Black people in the US are twice as likely to develop dementia as white people are Hispanolistic/Getty Images In the US, people of colour receive worse treatment than white people at every stage of dementia care, from diagnosis to end-of-life treatment, according to an analysis of dozens of studies. Dementia-causing conditions, such as Alzheimer […]
ST. PAUL, Minn. — The Minnesota Department of Health is hiring for a new state advisory council focusing on African American health outcomes. The MDH on Thursday said it would welcome applications from community members to serve on the council, but added they would accept applications only through the end of Friday. They’re looking for […]
From birth to death, Black Americans fare worse in measures of health compared to their white counterparts. They have higher rates of infant and maternal mortality, higher incidence of asthma during childhood, more difficulty treating