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Maryland gets 2 health-care grants worth $5M
Nov 16th, 2009 - baltimoresun
LA PLATA - Southern Maryland is getting nearly $5 million in federal stimulus money for health-care projects. About $2.4 million is going toward a national Bioethics Research Center...
AMA: Repeal "Don't Ask, Don't Tell"
Nov 10th, 2009 - CBS News
The nation's largest doctors' group has agreed to join efforts to repeal the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and rebuffed dissident members who sought to turn...
AMA: Government policies hazardous to gay health
Nov 10th, 2009 - Houston Chronicle
Weighing in on two contentious gay-rights issues, the nation's largest group of doctors sent the message Tuesday that government policy is hazardous to homosexuals' health. The policy-making arm of the American Medical Association...
American Medical Assoc. votes to seek repeal of 'don't ask,don't tell'
Nov 10th, 2009 - USA Today
CHICAGO — The American Medical Association on Tuesday voted to oppose the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, and declared that gay marriage bans contribute to health disparities.
AMA Urges Repeal of 'Don't Ask, Don't Tell'
Nov 10th, 2009 - FOXNews
The American Medical Association on Tuesday formally called for the repeal of the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, joining the efforts of gay rights groups to...

Health Disparities videos from YouTube:

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Laborvision - Health Disparities
Doctors Jim Kimmey and Will Ross explore the problem of health disparities - how certain populations, such as African Americans and Latinos, face worse healthcare outcomes than citizens as a whole. This topic is especially timely as Congress debates broad reform of our broken healthcare system ...
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Reach WV- From Health Disparities to Health Equity- HD Video
Our vision is that no health disparities exist between our racial and ethnic minority population and their white counterparts. Our mission is the REACH WV will mobilize community coalitions to affect behavioral, environmental ...
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Health Disparities and Human Rights
Dr. Alicia Fernandez explores health disparities and their affects on human rights. Series: UCSF Mini Medical School for the Public [3/2009] [Health and Medicine] [Show ID: 15579]
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Health Care and Health Disparities - Cynthia McKinney
Cynthia McKinney, Green Party Presidential Candidate on implementing Universal Single Player Health Care and Health Care Disparities by race. runcynthiarun.org

Health Disparities from WikiPedia:

Health disparities (also called healthcare inequality in some countries) refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial, ethnic, sexual orientation and socioeconomic groups. The Health Resources and Services Administration defines health disparities as "population-specific differences in the presence of disease, health outcomes, or access to health care."

In the United States, health disparities are well documented in minority populations such as African Americans, Native Americans, Asian Americans, and Latinos. When compared to whites, these minority groups have higher incidence of chronic diseases, higher mortality, and poorer health outcomes. Among the disease-specific examples of racial and ethnic disparities in the United States is the cancer incidence rate among African Americans, which is 10% higher than among whites. In addition, adult African Americans and Latinos have approximately twice the risk as whites of developing diabetes. Minorities also have higher rates of cardiovascular disease, HIV/AIDS, and infant mortality than whites. (See also: Health care in the United States.)