HEALTH DISPARITIES BLOG

February 04, 2010

links for 2010-02-04

• Obama Issues New Rules on Mental Health Coverage - ABC News
  The legislation aims to remove financial barriers to treatment for people with mental health problems. About 140 million Americans in more than 450,000 employer plans will benefit from improved coverage.
• New Jersey Blacks Less Likely To Survive Cancer Than Whites
  A New Jersey study found that African-Americans with cancer are less likely to survive it than whites, and residents of poor neighborhoods less likely to survive than are those in wealthier areas of the state. The racial disadvantage diminishes when socioeconomic status is a consideration, but does not disappear, according to the study in the February issue of the Journal of Health Care for the Poor and Underserved.
  (tags: cancer, race)
• Most African-American Adults Skip Sun Protection, Study Suggests
  Melanoma is more than 10 times higher in whites compared to blacks, but over a five-year span, blacks have a 78 percent lower survival rate compared to 92 percent of whites, according to study background material.