HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

March 16, 2009

links for 2009-03-16

• New study says more than 1.3 million Ohioans uninsured : MedCity News
  The number of uninsured children and seniors in Ohio has dropped in the last few years, but the number of working adults without health insurance has increased - causing the state’s overall uninsured population to climb by about 100,000, according to the 2008 Ohio Family Health Survey released today.
• Bill Seeks To Reduce Breast Cancer Health Disparities Among Illinois Minority Women
  Illinois lawmakers recently unanimously passed a bill (HB 5192) that seeks to reduce breast cancer health disparities among minority and immigrant women
• U.S. health care 'costs too much, delivers too little'
  If the global economy were a 100-metre dash, the U.S. would start 23 metres behind its closest competitors because of health care that costs too much and delivers too little, a business group says.
• Inequalities between mental and physical health literally costing lives - UK
  Research has revealed that people with schizophrenia die on average ten years younger than the rest of the population,this has raised alarm bells among race equality experts because of the disproportionate numbers of black people who are routinely given this diagnosis.
• Massachusetts Faces Costs of Big Health Care Plan
  Thanks to new taxes and fees imposed last year, the health plan’s jittery finances have stabilized for the moment. But government and industry officials agree that the plan will not be sustainable over the next 5 to 10 years if they do not take significant steps to arrest the growth of health spending.