Racial Health Care Disparities Persist in All States, With Significant Divides in Premature Deaths
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May 03, 2024
Substantial racial and ethnic disparities in health and health care are pervasive across all states in the U.S., according to The Commonwealth Fund 2024 State Health Disparities Report.
The report evaluated 25 health indicators of health system performance for Black, white, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN), and Asian American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander (AANHPI) populations. It found that racial health disparities are a bigger problem in some states than in others. Massachusetts, Rhode Island and Connecticut saw relatively high performance for all racial and ethnic groups, while Oklahoma, West Virginia and Mississippi performed poorly for all groups.
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