Ethnic Disparities in Health: The Public's Role in Working for Equality

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Author(s): David Satcher

Primary Institution: Morehouse School of Medicine

What if we had eliminated disparities in health in the last century?

Eliminating health disparities could have significantly reduced mortality rates among African Americans.

There would have been 83,500 fewer black deaths overall in the year 2000 alone if health disparities had been eliminated.
4,700 fewer black infants would have died in their first year of life if infant mortality had been equal across racial and ethnic groups.
250,000 fewer blacks would have been infected with HIV/AIDS in 2000 if disparities did not exist.

If everyone had the same access to health care, many more African Americans would be alive today.

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