"The states that mandated paid sick or family leave for hourly workers are in mostly-white states. Given that nearly 20% of low-wage workers are Black, that means they are disproportionately more likely to live in an area where they can't care for themselves or their loved ones if they fall ill during the work week."
"More than 50 percent of Black girls and women of reproductive age live in states with little to no abortion access, according to a new report.
The analysis from National Partnership for Women & Families and In Our Own Voice: National Black Women’s Reproductive Justice Agenda found that nearly 7 million Black women ages 15-49 live in the 26 states that have banned or are likely to ban abortion."
"Hospitalized women are less likely to die or be readmitted to the hospital if they are treated by female doctors, a study published Monday in the Annals of Internal Medicine found...The new research is part of a growing field of study examining why women and minorities tend to receive worse medical care than men and white patients. For example, women and minority patients are up to 30% more likely to be misdiagnosed than white men."
"Native Americans tend to die much earlier than white Americans. Their median age at death was 14 years younger, according to an analysis of 2018-21 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
The disparity is even greater in Goodlow’s home state. Indigenous South Dakotans who died between 2017 and 2021 had a median age of 58 — 22 years younger than white South Dakotans, according to state data."
📣 New paper: Using the present on admission (POA) indicator we explored acute #kidney injuries and sex #disparities It's an explorative analysis showing how the POA flag can help to analyse #routinedata more deeply. #realworlddata#openaccess
"Over the last decade, however, health experts have increasingly recognized that boys and men also suffer from eating disorders, and they have gained a better understanding of how differently the illness presents in that group. A small but growing body of scientists and physicians have dedicated themselves to identifying the problem, assessing its scope and developing treatments." https://www.nytimes.com/2024/02/08/health/adolescents-boys-eating-disorders.html
In the first #college application season since the #USSupremeCourt struck down #AffirmativeAction, #AsianAmerican#students are more stressed out than ever. #RaceConscious admissions were widely seen to have disadvantaged them, as borne out by #disparities in the test scores of admitted students — but many feel that race will still be a hidden factor and that standards are even more opaque than before.
"...new CDC data showed Hispanics in the Northeast had much higher rates of the disease. The senior researchers couldn’t figure out what was going on.
It took Burchard... about five minutes to figure it out: The Hispanic population in the northeastern U.S. wasn’t primarily Mexican American, like it was on the West Coast. It was Puerto Rican."
"Pulse oximeters routinely overestimated levels of oxygen in the blood in darker-skinned Covid patients, leading to delays in treatment and hospital readmissions...The research focused on the first years of the coronavirus pandemic, when patients overwhelmed hospitals. At the time, blood-oxygen levels were a key factor in deciding which patients wound up in limited hospital beds and received treatment."
"Black women in the Americas bear a heavier burden of maternal mortality than their peers, but according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations, the gap between who lives and who dies is especially wide in the world’s richest nation — the United States."
"Maternal deaths across the U.S. more than doubled over the course of two decades, and the tragedy unfolded unequally.
Black mothers died at the nation’s highest rates, while the largest increases in deaths were found in American Indian and Native Alaskan mothers. And some states — and racial or ethnic groups within them – fared worse than others."
Once again a fascinating thread from @ct_bergstrom on the difference between #Disparities + #Bias and why it's important to distinguish what is what in order to tackle bias better.