(StatePoint) Health and safety, shipping delays and a constrained budget these are just some of the concerns that may be amplifying your shopping stress this holiday season.
(StatePoint) Health and safety, shipping delays and a constrained budget these are just some of the concerns that may be amplifying your shopping stress this holiday season.
(StatePoint) Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Yet, according to a recently released report, Black women in the United States face a perfect storm of issues spanning across every aspect of the health care system and society at-large that are causing them to die about 40% more often from breast cancer than white women. Indeed, in some metropolitan areas, the gap can be as high as 74%
Why is this happening? As the report, âClosing the Breast Cancer Gap: A Roadmap to Save Lives of Black Women in America,â by breast cancer leader Susan G. Komen highlights, despite advances in science and increased access to early detection nationally, Black women face the combined effects of racial, gender, ethnic and other forms of bias while navigating systems and institutional structures in which entrenched inequities remain the status quo. This experience is felt by Black women nationwide, regardless of their income, education o