HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

December 09, 2008

links for 2008-12-09

• In Baltimore black and lower income neighborhoods have less access to healthy foods.
• Emergency Medical Practice: Advancing Cultural Competence and Reducing Health Care Disparities
  The authors present three clinical scenarios highlighting challenges in providing equitable emergency care to minority populations.
• The Uninsured Overwhelm Emergency Rooms
  As increasing numbers of the unemployed and uninsured turn to the nation’s emergency rooms as a medical last resort, doctors warn that the centers — many already overburdened — could have even more trouble handling the heart attacks, broken bones and other traumas that define their core mission.
• Sex Differences in Medical Care and Early Death After Acute Myocardial Infarction