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Origins Of Disparities

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The Origins Of Racial/Ethnic Disparities

PROLOGUE: Forty years after landmark civil rights legislation in the mid-1960s, persistent racial disparities in health and health care belie the nation’s avowed commitment to equality. Not all of the news is bad. Impressive improvements in infant mortality, for example, saved black babies in the same proportions as white ones over this period. But overall death rates for African Americans remain 40 percent higher than for whites, as they were in 1960, and many other measures of unequal treatment are just as disturbing. Research supports the commonsense inference that social and economic inequalities account for many of the observed differences . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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