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1. Findings on Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions Detailed by Investigators at Rush University Medical Center (Social Engagement and All-cause Mortality: a Focus On Participants of the Minority Aging Research Study)

Subjects
Social participation -- Health aspects -- Psychological aspects, Cardiovascular diseases -- Risk factors -- Prevention, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Health
Abstract

2022 DEC 10 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Research findings on Cardiovascular Diseases and Conditions are discussed in a new [...]

Published
2022

2. These Black Alabamians endured poor sewage for decades. Now they may see justice

Author

Dennis, Brady

Subjects
Alabama -- Social aspects, Refuse collection -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Environmental justice, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Brady Dennis - - - Clarification: This article has been updated to reflect the details of a 2017 study about potential hookworm cases in Lowndes County, Ala., and the [...]

Published
2023

3. The American Medical Association officially recognized racism as a public-health threat, saying it creates and entrenches health inequality

Subjects
Racism -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Medical societies -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Public health -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Equality -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Hispanic Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, COVID-19 -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Consumer news and advice, General interest
Abstract

The American Medical Association has officially defined racism as a public health threat. 'Racism negatively impacts and exacerbates health inequities among historically marginalized communities,' Willarda Edwards, an AMA board member, [...]

Published
2020

4. Social Distancing, Racism, and Protecting People in a Pandemic Without the Police

Subjects
Epidemics -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, Racism -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Police brutality -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Consumer news and advice, General interest
Abstract

The graphic, public murder of George Floyd served as the breaking point for African American communities already facing police brutality and struggling with the health and economic challenges brought on [...]

Published
2020

5. Black Health Care Professionals Help Black Communities Battle Pandemic

Author

Feldman, Nina

Subjects
Epidemics -- Demographic aspects -- Care and treatment, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Medical personnel -- Demographic aspects -- Practice -- Social aspects, COVID-19 -- Demographic aspects -- Care and treatment, General interest
Abstract

To listen to this broadcast, click here: http://www.npr.org/templates/transcript/transcript.php?storyId=917657044 BYLINE: NINA FELDMAN HOST: RACHEL MARTIN RACHEL MARTIN: Forty-four percent of Philadelphia's residents are Black. So when the coronavirus erupted last spring, [...]

Published
2020

6. Fixing health disparities requires 'the right data,' says UK doctor

Subjects
Coronaviruses -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, COVID-19 -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Protests around the world are highlighting the way racism impacts every aspect of society. That includes health. In Washington, DC, on Thursday, a (https://www.c-span.org/video/?472748-1/select-subcommittee-coronavirus-crisis-hearing-racial-health-disparities) congressional subcommittee met to examine the [...]

Published
2020

7. Reports from University of Connecticut Add New Data to Findings in Obesity (The Mediation Effect Between Everyday Discrimination, Gender Role Conflict, Emotional Eating, and Obesity In African American Fathers and Sons)

Subjects
African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Mediation -- Health aspects, Obesity -- Research -- Care and treatment -- Risk factors, Prevalence studies (Epidemiology) -- Analysis, Father-son relations, Fathers, Physical fitness, Discrimination, Adolescent obesity, Sexual politics, Sex roles, Editors, Health
Abstract

2019 MAY 18 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Data detailed on Nutritional and Metabolic Diseases and Conditions - Obesity have [...]

Published
2019

8. Chicago links Black residents' lower life expectancy to past and present racism

Author

Guarino, Mark

Subjects
Chicago, Illinois -- Social aspects, Life expectancy -- Forecasts and trends, Racism -- Influence, Public health -- Forecasts and trends, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Mark Guarino CHICAGO -Ben Jones huffs slowly down Cottage Grove Avenue on a summer Saturday on Chicago's South Side. He has asthma, and the summer heat isn't helping his [...]

Published
2021

9. Barbershop bringing vaccine trust into style

Author

Hassanein, Nada and Rodriguez, Adrianna

Subjects
Medical appointments and schedules -- Forecasts and trends, Barbershops -- Forecasts and trends, Vaccination -- Forecasts and trends, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Market trend/market analysis, Company distribution practices, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Byline: Nada Hassanein, and Adrianna Rodriguez, USA TODAY HYATTSVILLE, Md. - Reginald Alson received a surprising phone call from his childhood friend Monday morning. 'I signed you up to get [...]

Published
2021

10. Questions of Bias in Virus Care Haunt Mourning Black Families

Author

Eligon, John and Burch, Audra D.S.

Subjects
Race discrimination -- Forecasts and trends -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, Epidemics -- Control -- Prevention -- United States, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, COVID-19 -- Prevention, Health care services accessibility -- Forecasts and trends -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Prejudice, Physicians, Engineers, Quarantine, Market trend/market analysis, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Long dissatisfied with the doctor treating his diabetes, Reginald Relf decided to fight through whatever was causing his nagging cough. But then his temperature spiked and his breathing became so [...]

Published
2020

11. Researchers at University of Pittsburgh Target HIV/AIDS (Assessing HIV Stigma on Prevention Strategies for Black Men Who Have Sex with Men in the United States)

Subjects
African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, MSM (Men who have sex with men) -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, HIV infections -- Care and treatment, Stigma (Social psychology) -- Influence, Medical care utilization -- Forecasts and trends, Obesity, HIV carriers discrimination, Communicable diseases, Physical fitness, HIV, Nursing research, Immune system, Nursing, Editors, Medical research, Allergy, Market trend/market analysis, Health
Abstract

2018 DEC 22 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Obesity, Fitness & Wellness Week -- Research findings on Immune System Diseases and Conditions - HIV/AIDS are discussed [...]

Published
2018

12. African Americans: disparities in health care access and utilization

Author

Copeland, Valire Carr

Subjects
Medical care -- Utilization, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Health, Sociology and social work, Company business management, Management, Social aspects, Health aspects
Abstract

Despite remarkable improvements in the overall health of our nation during the past two decades, compelling evidence suggests that our nation's racial and ethnic minority Americans suffer increasing disparities in [...]

Published
2005

13. Academy for Leadership and Development brings back More Than We Bear event

Subjects
Mental health -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, News, opinion and commentary, Sports and fitness
Abstract

By Erianne Lewis | Staff Writer More Than We Can Bear , an event that was created in 2010 after the deaths of two African American alumni by suicide, was [...]

Published
2021

14. Racism in care leads to health disparities, doctors and other experts say as they push for change

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Racism -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Physicians -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Tonya Russell The protests over the deaths of black men and women at the hands of police have turned attention to other American institutions, including health care, where some [...]

Published
2020

15. Expert Available to Comment on Racial Disparities Throughout COVID-19 Pandemic

Subjects
Epidemics -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, Mortality -- Social aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Business, News, opinion and commentary, Research Triangle Institute -- Social aspects
Abstract

RESEARCH TRIANGLE PARK, N.C., May 11, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- LaShawn Glasgow, Director of Community and Workplace Health at RTI International, a nonprofit research institute, is available to comment on COVID-19's [...]

Published
2020

16. Influence of individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic status on mortality among black, Mexican-American, and white women and men in the United States. (Research Report)

Author

Winkleby, M.A. and Cubbin, C.

Subjects
Social economics -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, Whites -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, Mortality -- Social aspects -- United States, Mexican Americans -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Health, Social sciences, Social aspects, Health aspects
Abstract

Study objectives: This study examines the influence of individual and neighbourhood socioeconomic status (SES) on mortality among black, Mexican-American, and white women and men in the US. The authors had [...]

Published
2003

17. WEEKEND READ: RACISM IS KILLING BLACK AMERICANS

Subjects
Mortality -- Social aspects, Racism -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Childhood asthma -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Hate crimes -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Poverty, Lung diseases, Infant mortality, Life expectancy, Respiratory tract diseases, Asthma, News, opinion and commentary, Southern Poverty Law Center -- Social aspects
Abstract

MONTGOMERY, AL -- The following information was released by the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC): Racism affects every aspect of American life none more so than our medical system. Numerous [...]

Published
2019

18. WNY GROUPS RECEIVE $790,000 GRANT TO IMPROVE HEALTH OF RESIDENTS OF BUFFALO'S EAST SIDE

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Health care reform -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Nutrition, Education, Public health, Company financing, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- The following information was released by the University at Buffalo - SUNY: Programs aim to reduce smoking and improve nutrition and health care access for African Americans [...]

Published
2019

19. AFRICAN AMERICANS STILL LAG BEHIND IN HEALTH OUTCOMES: INCREASING REPRESENTATION AMONG PROVIDERS MUST BE A PART OF THE SOLUTION

Subjects
African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Books, Women's associations, Racism, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

WASHINGTON, DC -- The following information was released by Families USA: Sinsi Hernandez-Cancio Director of the Center on Health Equity Action for System Transformation, Families USA Noelle Thompson Health Equity [...]

Published
2019

20. Less Racism, Doctor's Orders

Author

Jacobs, Douglas

Subjects
Racism -- Health aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

Estifanos Zerai-Misgun, a black Brookline, Mass., police officer, pulled up in an unmarked car and greeted his superior, a white lieutenant. He wasn't prepared for the response by the lieutenant, [...]

Published
2017

21. Reports from University of Nebraska Advance Knowledge in Sociology (Stress- Related Biosocial Mechanisms of Discrimination and African American Health Inequities)

Subjects
Medical care -- Social aspects -- United States, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Racism, Discrimination, Editors, Health, Science and technology
Abstract

2019 MAR 8 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Science Letter -- Investigators publish new report on Sociology. According to news reporting from Lincoln, Nebraska, by NewsRx [...]

Published
2019

22. Climate change is hitting African Americans hard. Here's how Maryland can lead

Author

Stansbury, Gerald

Subjects
Climate change -- Environmental aspects -- Social aspects, Air pollution -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Business, Computers and office automation industries, Telecommunications industry
Abstract

Byline: Gerald Stansbury This fall, some Maryland parents sent their children into classrooms where the temperature topped 100 degrees by 11 a.m. And we routinely send many children out the [...]

Published
2018

23. 'A Whole New Being'

Author

Sontag, Deborah

Subjects
Transgender people -- Social aspects -- Health aspects -- Demographic aspects, Sex change -- Social aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

CORRECTION APPENDEDPerched on a gurney at dawn, Kricket Jernß Nimmons, 40, kicked her feet giddily, like a girl on the edge of a pool, preparing to take a plunge. She [...]

Published
2015

24. For Black History Month, Praeclarus Press and the Simkin Center Offers a Webinar That Teaches How to Make Health Care Practices Welcoming to African American Women

Subjects
Health care industry -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Health care industry, Business, general
Abstract

Amarillo, Texas (PRWEB) January 31, 2014 The rates for infant and maternal mortality in the U.S. are higher than most other developed nations. And there is a striking health disparity [...]

Published
2014

25. Links Between Prison and AIDS Affecting Blacks Inside and Out

Author

Clemetson, Lynette

Subjects
Prisoners -- Health aspects -- Social aspects, AIDS patients -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects
Abstract

Fiddling with a cigarette, Louise, a straight-talking 23-year-old who has been living with H.I.V. for four years, grimaced as she discussed life in the black neighborhood of her small town, […]

Published
2004

26. Burden of HIV Highest for Blacks, CDC Reports; Increases in infection are due to complex social factors, researchers say

Subjects
United States. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention -- Reports, HIV infection -- Demographic aspects -- Statistics, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Health
Abstract

Byline: Steven Reinberg, HealthDay Reporter THURSDAY, Feb. 3 (HealthDay News) -- Although blacks make up only 13.6 percent of the U.S. population, they account for 50.3 percent of all diagnosed [...]

Published
2011

27. Let's be careful whom we call 'takers'

Author

Odle, Samuel L.

Subjects
Poverty -- Social aspects -- Analysis -- Indiana, Blacks -- Analysis -- Social aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, Business, Business, regional
Abstract

MITT ROMNEY'S comment about 47 percent of people being 'takers'--those who generally live off the rest of the population's efforts--reawakened me to a local version of this concept that creeps [...]

Published
2013

28. Doctors See Gap in Blacks' Health Having a Link to Low Self-Esteem

Author

Lee, Felicia R.

Subjects
Physicians -- Social aspects -- Health aspects, African Americans -- Social aspects -- Health aspects
Abstract

LEAD: A widening health gap between blacks and whites is due in part to low self-esteem among blacks who react adversely to the stresses of racism, panelists at a national […]

Published
1989

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