From the Document health, United States, 2004:
http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus04.pdf
Health, United States, 2004, identifies major areas where
disparities in health and health care exist by race, ethnicity,
and socioeconomic status. Persons living in poverty are
considerably more likely to be in poor health and less likely
than nonpoor persons to have used many types of health
care. In 2002 the percentage of persons reporting their health
status as fair or poor was more than three times as high for
persons living below the poverty level as for those with family
income more than twice the poverty level (table 57). Poor
persons were four times as likely as nonpoor persons to
report serious psychological distress (table 58).
Large disparities in infant mortality rates remain among racial
and ethnic groups (table 19), and the gap in life expectancy
between the sexes and between the black and white
populations has been narrowing, but persists (table 27).
Disparities in access to health care, risk factors, and
morbidity also persist among persons under 65 years of age
of Hispanic origin, and American Indians who are more likely
to be uninsured than are those in other racial and ethnic
groups. Obesity, a major risk factor for many chronic
diseases, also varies by race (figure 17 and tables 69 and
70). Diabetes, which is associated with obesity, rises sharply
with age and is more common among non-Hispanic black and
Mexican persons than non-Hispanic white persons (table 55).
While many aspects of the health of the Nation have
improved as a whole, the health of some subpopulations has
lagged behind. The large differences in health status by race
and Hispanic origin documented in this report may be
explained by several factors including socioeconomic status,
health practices, psychosocial stress and resources,
environmental exposures, discrimination, and access to health
care (4). Socioeconomic and cultural differences among racial
and ethnic groups in the United States will likely continue to
influence patterns of disease, disability, and health care use
in the future.
p. 26.
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