Focus on Health
Cancer Deaths Remain High In Blacks
Cancer Deaths Remain High In Blacks
Every April, health organizations work to raise awareness about cancer among minorities during National Minority Health Month, including National Minority Cancer Awareness Week.
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Is Nebraska Guilty Of Health Insurance Discrimination For African-American Employees?
Is Nebraska guilty of health insurance discrimination for African-American employees, and if so, how prevalent is the practice in other states. Or, is the state of Nebraska a unique case?
The Nebraska Supreme Court heard arguments Tuesday in a case alleging that the state discriminated against its African-American employees by offering less health insurance coverage to state workers living in Lincoln and Omaha.
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Myriad Languages Pose Challenge For Health Reform
OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) - Set on a gritty corner of Oakland's International Boulevard, the nonprofit Street Level Health Project offers free checkups to patients who speak a total of 22 languages, from recent Mongolian immigrants seeking a doctor to Burmese refugees in need of a basic dental exam.
It also provides a window into one of the challenges for state officials who are trying to implement the Affordable Care Act, President Barack Obama's sweeping healthcare overhaul.
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Patients Refuse Treatment from Provider Because of Race
It appears that it is a common occurrence where patients refuse treatment from a provider because of race. It's been called one of medicine's "open secrets" - allowing patients to refuse treatment by a doctor or nurse of another race.
In the latest example, a white man with a swastika tattoo insisted that black nurses not be allowed to touch his newborn. That led several black nurses to sue the Michigan hospital, claiming it bowed to his illegal demands, and a rapid settlement in one of their lawsuits.
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Flu Safety: Actively Protect You & Your Family
This is a very active year for Influenza [flu], says Dr. Michael Palestine, Southwest Care Center Family Medicine in Santa Fe, New Mexico. “One of the biggest challenges faced during Influenza season is disseminating a clear and accurate message to those at greatest risk of acquiring and experiencing complications from this infection.”
Palestine says that this gap in understanding engenders “under vaccination” of those who might benefit the most. Additionally, the vast majority of the vaccine supply is a killed virus that does not lead to post vaccination influenza.
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Ten Leading Causes Of Death For Blacks
Here’s to your health! When it comes to staying healthy African-Americans experience multiple challenges. Genetically specific disease like sickle cell anemia is confined to African-Americans, but it is not one of the ten leading causes of death for Blacks. Blacks die most commonly from the same ailments that plague those of other races, but they do so with different frequency and often at younger ages than their white, yellow, and red skinned counterparts.
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Asthma In African American Women
Since 1995, the ongoing Black Women's Health Study (BWHS) has been documenting the higher rates of many illnesses that disproportionately affect African American women, such as hypertension, breast cancer, diabetes, stroke, and lupus. Led by researchers at Boston University’s Slone Epidemiology Center, the BWHS has followed 59,000 African American women through a biennial questionnaire.
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Ten Leading Causes Of Death For Hispanics
Currently, 54 million Hispanics live in the U.S. By 2050, that number is expected to rise to 132.8 million. For this reason, Hispanic health concerns are getting more attention from the American medical establishment than in the past. The Center for Disease Control (CDC) reports that Hispanic Americans tend to live longer than either black or white Americans despite the fact that this population is less likely to carry health insurance than all other populations.
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An Epidemic Of Prostate Cancer In African-American Men
One out of every five black men will be diagnosed with prostate cancer during his lifetime, and five out of 100 will die from it. Black men are more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer, and one that is more aggressive and more advanced than men of other ethnicities. They are also more likely to develop the disease at a younger age than other men. To bring attention to this alarming phenomenon, the U.S. Senate passed a resolution on July 26, 2012 recognizing that prostate cancer among African American men is at epidemic proportions.
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Breast Cancer Awareness: A Disease Affecting All Ethnicities
According to the World Health Organization, the United States places 17th in the frequency of breast cancer rates, with 21.2 per 100,000 females. Japan has the lowest rates: only 8.6 per 100,000, while Iceland has the highest number: 39.4 per 100,000. With Japan having the lowest rates there is much speculation about the Japanese diet and its effects on health in general and breast cancer in particular. Dr.
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