Racial minorities get lower quality care than Whites – True
Question asked:
“Racial and ethnic minorities receive lower-quality health care and experience worse health outcomes than White patients.”
Summary
Racial and ethnic minority patients consistently receive lower-quality health care and experience worse health outcomes compared with White patients. Extensive research documented by health agencies and academic studies shows persistent disparities in access, treatment effectiveness, safety, and preventive services for these groups. This pattern remains evident across recent analyses.
Sources 60 searched
- Health Care - Understanding Racial and Ethnic Differences in ...
Checking your browser before accessing www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov · Click here if you are not automatically redirected after 5 seconds
- The Healthcare Environment and Its Relation to Disparities - Unequal Treatment - NCBI Bookshelf
For example, as will be discussed ... studies indicate, however, that even when income and education are controlled, minorities are more likely to receive care in the lowest quality facilities with the least likelihood of appropriate follow-up....
- Racial disparities in Health Care: Highlights From Focus Group Findings - Unequal Treatment - NCBI Bookshelf
(Native American participant) The stories and recollections of participants across the eight focus groups provide supporting evidence for the concern that racial and ethnic minorities are less likely to receive appropriate medical services, and that they experience a lower quality of health ...
- Joint Hearing of the Senate and Assembly Health Committees
that U.S. racial and ethnic minorities are less likely to receive even routine medical procedures · and experience a lower quality of health services.
- Racial/Ethnic Discrimination in Health Care: Impact on Perceived Quality of Care - PMC
In addition, although discrimination ... whites. Across racial/ethnic groups, respondents who believed that they would have gotten better health care if they were of a different race were more likely to report lower quality of care....
- Race, Healthcare, and Health Disparities: A Critical Review and Recommendations for Advancing Health Equity - PMC
An estimated 500,000 cases of shigellosis occur annually in the US.26 Incidence rates of infection per 100,000 are greatest among Black (7.2) and Hispanic (5.6) individuals as compared to Whites (2.6).26 Despite the preventable nature of shigellosis, an analysis of over 25,000 laboratory-confirmed cases reported to the CDC found a strong association between its incidence and residence in areas marked by US Census Tract-level poverty and household crowding. Racial and ethnic IR disparities, however, persisted even after controlling for these socioeconomic indicators,26 and the rates of severe infection among adults are highest among Black persons.27 Similarly, Black (vs non-Black) infants <6 months in age had higher rates of diarrhea-associated hospitalizations that persisted even after the introduction of the rotavirus vaccines in 2006.28
- Racial and Ethnic Minorities | Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality
A large body of research has shown that compared with the White population, racial and ethnic minority groups experience disparities in access to care and healthcare quality, including effectiveness of treatment, timeliness, patient safety, and preventive screening.
- Disparities in Healthcare Quality Among Racial and Ethnic ...
focuses on “prevailing disparities in health care · delivery as it relates to racial factors and · socioeconomic factors in priority populations.” · Priority populations include racial and ethnic · minorities, low-income groups, women, children, older adults, residents of rural areas and inner ·
This fact check is free and donation-based. $1 powers ~30 fact-checks.
