The Forgotten Population:
Health Disparities and Minority Men

Facts of Life: Issue Briefings for Health Reporters
Vol. 8, No. 5 - May 2003 - Center for the Advancement of Health

Available online at: http://www.cfah.org/factsoflife/vol8no5.cfm

 

".....Health professionals, researchers and activists are finally paying attention to the need to reduce racial and ethnic disparities in health. But efforts to address these disparities often omit men, a forgotten demographic in health policy and practice. Men of color are less healthy than any other group and more likely to suffer chronic conditions. They have reduced access to care and are more severely affected by the underlying causes of disease. Thus far, men of color have been underrepresented in proposed solutions to health disparity problems...."

 

 

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