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Health Disparities In Black, Latinx, And Native Populations Compared To Caucasians: A Retrospective Descriptive-Analysis Of Care Focused On Hypertensive Emergency, Non-St Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Nstemi), And Cerebrovascular Accident (Cva)., Jonathan Aguilar Roa, Evon Anukam
Health Disparities In Black, Latinx, And Native Populations Compared To Caucasians: A Retrospective Descriptive-Analysis Of Care Focused On Hypertensive Emergency, Non-St Segment Elevation Myocardial Infarction (Nstemi), And Cerebrovascular Accident (Cva)., Jonathan Aguilar Roa, Evon Anukam
Providence Pharmacy PGY1 Program at Providence Portland and Providence St. Vincent Medical Centers 2021
Background
• Health disparity is a sum of differences in healthcare seen in underserved populations of the United States. 1 • Differences include incidence, prevalence, mortality, burden of disease, and other adverse health conditions • According to ASHP, health disparities continue to be a major public health problem confronting the U.S. health care systems. 2 • Evidence suggests that health disparities can be in part due to differences in the quality of care for different racial and ethnic groups. 2 • All the different disparity factors have been shown to lead to different health outcomes that do not favor Black, …