Racial health disparities continue to disproportionately affect Black persons in the United
States. Black individuals also have increased risk of worse outcomes associated with social …

Abstract In the United States, the number of people with Hispanic backgrounds is rapidly
increasing. This growth, along with other factors, may put them at increased risk for …

Abstract Gregory PC, LaVeist TA, Simpson C: Racial disparities in access to cardiac
rehabilitation. Am J Phys Med Rehabil 2006; 85: 705–710. Objective: This study sought to …

Importance Black men have the lowest life expectancy of all major ethnic-sex populations in
the USA, yet no recent studies have comprehensively examined black male mortality …

Thirty-seven years ago, the Secretary's Task Force on Black and Minority Health called
attention to a “national paradox” of persistent Black-White health disparities despite overall …

Importance In the US, Black people receive less health care than White people. Data on
long-term trends in these disparities, which provide historical context for interpreting …

Purpose Despite the well-described benefits of cardiac rehabilitation (CR) on long-term
health outcomes, CR is a resource that is underutilized by a significant proportion of patients …

Abstract In the 2000 census, 36.4 million persons, approximately 12.9% of the US
population, identified themselves as Black or African American; 35.4 million of these persons …

Substantial time and resources have been devoted to the study of racial inequalities in
health. Indeed, the public health and social science literatures have documented racial …

Background. Continued racial/ethnic health disparities were recently described as “the most
serious and shameful health care issue of our time.” Although the 2014 US Affordable Care …