HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

April 13, 2009

links for 2009-04-13

• Non-Profits Hospitals’ Advice for Poor Patients: Go to Public Hospital
  Non-profit hospitals in the Chicago area are sending some poor patients away, advising them to get care at the county’s publicly funded hospital
• Deadly Disparities Are Focus Of Minority Health Month, Utah
  While the health of most Utahns improved significantly over the last two decades, minority populations continue to face higher rates of death and disease.
• Black-white cancer mortality gap starts with incidence rates
  African-Americans have a higher cancer death rate than Caucasians, and this circumstance largely appears to be due to discrepancies in the incidence numbers for this disease
• Environment over genetics
  While cities have shown considerable racial disparities in cancer survival, those racial disparities virtually disappear among smaller populations, such as neighbourhoods within that city.