HLTH 366 Lecture Notes - Lecture 11: Health Equity, Institutional Racism, Cardiovascular Disease
7 Dec 2016
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Secretary"s task force of minority health (1985) 2010 healthy people of introduces goals on reducing health disparities (2000) Shifting health disparities research from epidemiological approach to human rights paradigm (james, 2009) Health outcomes of individual (leading causes include cardiovascular disease, cancer) Rate of suicide in adolescents has tripled in the last 30 years. Lgbt adolescents are at increased risk for mental health problems and are 2-3 times more likely than peers to attempt suicide. Women are at greater risk for alzheimer disease than men; they are twice as likely as men to be affected by major depression. The appalachian region suffers an excess in premature deaths (ages 35 to 64) from heart disease, all cancers combined, diabetes, and motor vehicle accidents, relative to comparable non-appalachian u. s. population. Case study: african-americans: more than double infant mortality rate, have a 30% higher death rate for all cancers, are more than 11 times more likely to die from hiv/aids.
