Professor speaks about B’more race, health link | The Johns Hopkins News-Letter
For example, according to Furr-Holden, there is a twenty year difference in life expectancy between the Upton Druid Heights community, which is 97 percent African American, and the Roland Park community, which is 87 percent white.
She stressed the need to compare differences in health among communities not as health disparities, but as health inequities. Solutions coming from health disparities fix problems only at the surface level. However, by examining problems as health inequities, which deal with justice in the realm of health, one can confront issues more effectively at their source.
For example, according to Furr-Holden, there is a twenty year difference in life expectancy between the Upton Druid Heights community, which is 97 percent African American, and the Roland Park community, which is 87 percent white.
She stressed the need to compare differences in health among communities not as health disparities, but as health inequities. Solutions coming from health disparities fix problems only at the surface level. However, by examining problems as health inequities, which deal with justice in the realm of health, one can confront issues more effectively at their source.
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