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Here is a video titled: How NYC Health + Hospitals Tackles Health Disparities, Uninsured Care. In this video Ram Raju, M.D., describes challenges faced by the field in reducing health disparities and some of the solutions being implemented by the public health system from the Hospital and Health Networks.
Living in a neighboring city can lower your life expectancy by 15 years, based on the hospital and health service availability in that area. This was the case in two California districts (Gehlert).
The mortality rate for African-American female victims of breast cancer is higher than the rate for white female victims (CDC). Part of this can be attributed to unequal cancer treatment received throughout hospitals.
Academic Journals
Socioeconomic Disparities in Health in the United States: What the Patterns Tell Us (Braveman)
The Association Between Income and Life Expectancy in the United States, 2001-2014 (Chetty)
Income, Poverty, and Health Insurance Coverage in the United States: 2011 (Denavas-Walt)
The Lived Experience of Race and Its Health Consequences (Smedley)
Miles to Go before We Sleep: Racial Inequities in Health (Williams)
Helpful Articles
The cost of inequality: Money = quality health care = longer life (Harvard Gazette)
The Unfinished March: An Overview (Economic Policy Institute)
Racial Bias in Medicine Leads to Worse Care for Minorities (U.S. News)
Why Health Care Is Different If You're Black, Latino, or Poor (Forbes)
For eugenic sterilization victims, belated justice (NBC)
Sterilizing the Sick, Poor to Cut Welfare Costs: North Carolina's
Organizations
World Health Organization: http://www.who.int/en/
NAACP: http://www.naacp.org/
American Nurses Association: http://www.nursingworld.org/
Journal of Professional Nursing: http://www.professionalnursing.org/
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