Patient Engagement November 18, 2020
New research showed that racial health disparities between Black and White or Hispanic and White patients grew since the new millennium.
Racial health disparities have only gotten worse in the past twenty years, new data shows, despite Congressional and research efforts to better understand and mitigate disparities.
The study, published in JAMA Network Open, showed that poor health indicators among Black patients have gotten worse since the turn of the new millennium. For Hispanic patients, diabetes, hypertension, and uninsurance disparities have worsened.
These results come after a two-decades-long push to address racial health disparities, the researchers from the Columbia University Irving Medical Center reported. In 1999, Congress requested the then Institute of Medicine (now known as the National Academy of...
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