Increase access to high quality healthcare for all citizens, and promote the creation of policies and practices that reduce health-related disparities among people of color.
| Target Area: | Ensuring access to high-quality, affordable healthcare | Reducing obesity disparities and related diseases — heart disease, hypertension | Eliminating disparities in HIV/AIDS | Reducing disparities in respiratory diseases | Promoting the development of good mental health practices and programs |
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| Definition: | Access to health insurance; access to health services, medicine and preventative care | Promote fitness and healthy living | Eliminate policies, practices and behaviors leading to disparities in contraction and treatment of HIV/AIDS | Eliminate policies and practices that lead to disparities | Improve mental health awareness and increase utilization of mental health services |
| Size of Gap: | 11.3% of whites have no health ins. vs. 19.7% blacks |
Heart disease is 30% higher among black adults than white adults; strokes disproportionately impact blacks
47% of white women are overweight compared to 77% of black women |
50% of blacks account for annual new infections; blacks account for less than 13% of population
Black women accounted for 69% of all diagnosed female HIV/AIDS cases in 2003 |
Blacks are twice as likely to die of a smoking related disease than whites | Whites are twice as likely to have access to and utilize mental health services |
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