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#AfricanAmericans are dying at disproportionate rates from the #coronavirus #Covid19; Demographers have been sounding the alarm about #healthdisparities for a long time. @nia_demography @mdhayward @adiezroux @DeatonAngus
@PRBdata 2013: https://assets.prb.org/pdf13/TodaysResearchAging28.pdf
@PRBdata 2013: https://assets.prb.org/pdf13/TodaysResearchAging28.pdf
Poorer quality health care in predominantly black communities may contribute to premature death, impacting all city residents. @DeatonAngus
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12600354
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12600354
Physicians who treat predominantly black patients appear to be less well trained and have less access to key clinical resources than those treating white patients @peterbachmd
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15295050
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/15295050
Hospitals that treat a large share of black patients tend to have access to fewer resources than those that treat mainly white patients @JonSkinner17
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16246963
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16246963
Biological aging occurs faster for blacks than for whites even after adjusting for income, education, smoking, + physical activity. Evidence from newborns suggests role of life-time stress related to discrimination. @adiezroux https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2713110/
Biological evidence suggests that black women age faster than white women: Stress related to discrimination and poverty play a role. Arline Geronimus of @UMich https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2861506/
Low socioeconomic status during childhood increases the odds that older blacks have disabling and chronic health conditions; higher educational attainment buffers this effect. @mdhayward https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4465758/
