Race and Health Levels

Race and Health Levels
A look a minority health status in the United States

Further Resources

NIH Warren G. Magnuson Clinical Center Strategic Plan on Reducing Health Disparities
NewsHour with Jim Lehrer report on the "Health Care Divide" (Film Clip and Transcript)
From MSNBC: Minorities in the United States tend to receive lower quality health care than whites even when income, age and insurance status were factored in, the Institute of Medicine reports.
From the Urban Institute: Racial and Ethnic Disparities: Key Findings from the National Survey of America's Families
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