HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

June 02, 2008

links for 2008-06-02

• Rating Health Care Behind Bars
  Gotham Gazette takes on health care in New York City's jails.
• Racial disparity in Ill. amputation rate
  African-American neighborhoods have an incidence rate of amputations from diabetes five times higher than that of white neighborhoods, researchers say.
• Study Finds Disparities in Breast Cancer Treatment Even Among Fully-Insured African-American and Caucasian Women
  HealthCore researchers found the factors predicting worse outcomes for African-American vs. Caucasian women with newly diagnosed breast cancer in a fully insured population were consistent with those factors identified by the current medical literature fo

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