HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

October 08, 2008

links for 2008-10-08

• Healthcare is not a right
  Universal health care is, however, a moral obligation for an industrialized society, and will not result in the apocalyptic consequences promised by the jeremiads.
• Racial and Income Disparities Evident in Head and Neck Cancer
  Survival after a head and neck cancer diagnosis lags for African-Americans and the poor, researchers here said.
• Fight is on to remove a stigma
  Discussing the disparity between mental health care and general medicine in the country, Duckworth said the bias against mental illness goes beyond the institutions — hospitals, insurance companies, states — and encompasses society.
• With 1 in 166 children having autism, parents are scared
  The statistics are startling: One out of every 166 children nationwide has some form of autism, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
• Genes may explain racial disparities in asthma
  Asthma patients who are black tend to have more severe disease than asthma patients who are white, leading to more asthma control problems, higher rates of emergency department visits, and overall worse quality of life.