With it being National Minority Health Month, I want to discuss health disparities and access to care for a moment. We know it is proven that minorities and people from lower socioeconomic groups have less access to quality healthcare, and it has been this way for decades!
We also know that minorities have higher rates of preventable chronic illnesses such as heart disease and diabetes, due to a wide variety of factors such as finances, diet or class to name a few.
A study by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation estimates that “Latinos and African-Americans experience 30 to 40 percent poorer health outcomes than white Americans.” This pandemic of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), a new viral strain that causes respiratory infection and can
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