Note emphasis on race NOT class or income... - dr

http://www.courier-journal.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20060629/OPINION04/606290354


courier-journal.com
Thursday, June 29, 2006

Facing city's health inequities
Adewale Troutman
Special to The Courier-Journal

When babies in some racial and ethnic groups are dying twice as often as
those in other groups, when there are more than 83,000 excess deaths per
year among certain groups, and when death rates for members of some groups
are nearly 30 percent higher than for members of other groups -- then you
know you have a problem in your society.

These statistics do not refer to health inequities that exist in some far,
distant developing nation, but in our own United States and in our own
hometown of Louisville....SNIP

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