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Running Head: HEALTH DISPARITIES 1

Health Disparities Among Diverse Populations

African American comprises 13.4% of the total USA population. The health status of

African Americans has been identified as a higher prevalence of various diseases, including

cancer, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, mental health, and sexually

transmitted infections. According to the statistics analyzed, African Americans have been

identified to live longer. The death rates have been identified to decline by about 25% in the

last 17 years. There are notable differences that show up in African Americans in their early

ages between the 20s and 40s for diseases and causes of death. Chronicle diseases and are

sometimes silent or are not diagnosed at these early stages among this group. The social and

economic factors often the causes of health differences in experienced between the African

Americans and the white.

African Americans ages between 18 and 49 years are twice likely to die from heath

diseases than the whites. Also, the African American age group between 35 and 64 years is

50% more likely to have high blood pressure than whites. Health issues according to the

young African groups are experienced in the following percentages among the age groups,

cases of high blood pressure between 18 and 34 years represent 12% while the whites are

10%, diabetes, 1.5% that of white is 1.4%, stroke 0.7% while whites are 0.4%. Age between

35 and 49 years, high blood pressure 33% while the whites are 24%, diabetes, 10% while

whites are 6%, stroke 2% on the other hand whites are 1%.

Among the group between the age of 50 and 64 years, 61% have high blood pressure

while whites are 41%, 23% diabetic, while 14% are whites, and 7% African Americans have

a stroke compared to 4% whites (Soliman et al. 2019).

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HEALTH DISPARITIES 2

The mortality rates of African Americans have been noted to be higher when

compared with whites. According to the 2015 statistics, the deaths per 100,000 people of the

African American descent between 18 and 34, 142, and 100 whites died per 100,000. Those

between 35 and 49, 312 died as compared to 220 whites. The group aged between 50 and 64

years, 1,046 African Americans, died compared to 722 whites. The commonly identified risk

factors include unemployment, living in poverty, no home ownership, smoking, obesity, no

activities, and not seeing an MD. The percentage of African Americans or blacks who have

health cover is 79% (Hughes et al. 2017).

One of the barriers that are hinder access quality health among the African American

group is the lack of insurance cover. The majority of the group are unemployed and live in

low-income households. Compared to the whites, they lack private or employment-based

health insurance as they work in jobs that do not provide health insurance to the employees

(Chen et al. 2016). The poor and these working in workplaces where employees are not given

health care benefits lack a usual source of health care. This has created a wide barrier to

accessing quality health among the African American group.

The social environments in which many African American people live are associated

with their health problems. Those living in urban areas are confronted with constant

challenges of population density, inadequate and unaffordable housing, limited access to

resources, and high crime rates. The prolonged adverse effects of discrimination, racism,

substandard housing, poverty, neighbourhood conditions, and limited access to quality health

care are linked to poor health outcomes among African Americans.

Poor Communication has been identified as a barrier to health care access by African

Americans. Patients from this group have reported unfavourable interactions with the

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Running Head: HEALTH DISPARITIES 1 Health Disparities Among Diverse Populations African American comprises 13.4% of the total USA population. The health status of African Americans has been identified as a higher prevalence of various diseases, including cancer, diabetes, obesity, hypertension, cardiovascular diseases, mental health, and sexually transmitted infections. According to the statistics analyzed, African Americans have been identified to live longer. The death rates have been identified to decline by about 25% in the last 17 years. There are notable differences that show up in African Americans in their early ages between the 20s and 40s for diseases and causes of death. Chronicle diseases and are sometimes silent or are not diagnosed at these early stages among this group. The social and economic factors often the causes of health differences in experienced between the African Americans and the white. African Americans ages between 18 and 49 years are twice likely to die from heath diseases than the whites. Also, the African American age group between 35 and 64 years is 50% more likely to have high blood pressure than whites. Health issues according to the young Afric ...
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