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Racial Health Disparities Take Human and Economic Toll
Despite incredible scientific and medical advances like penicillin and vaccines that protect us from polio, measles, influenza, and now COVID-19, healthcare disparities continue to disproportionately harm minorities and add billions of dollars to the cost of healthcare.
Conditions like heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes top a long list of medical conditions disproportionately affecting minority populations, according to Hamilton Health Center CEO Jeannine Peterson. The clinic serves thousands, including a large minority population, who might otherwise have little or no access to healthcare.
These disparities come at a steep price.
Health disparities added nearly $230 billion in direct medical costs, and about $1 trillion in productivity losses, costs associated with early death, and other indirect costs, to the nation’s healthcare bill from 2003-2006, according to a study by
Racial Health Disparities Take Human and Economic Toll
Despite incredible scientific and medical advances like penicillin and vaccines that protect us from polio, measles, influenza, and now COVID-19, healthcare disparities continue to disproportionately harm minorities and add billions of dollars to the cost of healthcare.
Conditions like heart disease, hypertension, and diabetes top a long list of medical conditions disproportionately affecting minority populations, according to Hamilton Health Center CEO Jeannine Peterson. The clinic serves thousands, including a large minority population, who might otherwise have little or no access to healthcare.
These disparities come at a steep price.
Health disparities added nearly $230 billion in direct medical costs, and about $1 trillion in productivity losses, costs associated with early death, and other indirect costs, to the nation’s healthcare bill from 2003-2006, according to a study by
Hamilton Health Center’s CEO works to create equal access to quality health care for all
Updated Mar 08, 2021;
Posted Mar 08, 2021
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Editor’s note: PennLive is paying tribute to the people who are helping shape what will some day be the history of the Black community in Central Pennsylvania.
These are people who are examples of excellence, who inspire those around them for the work they do, the art they create, or the causes for which they fight.
This is one in a series of profiles featured on PennLive and in The Patriot-News.
Fighting to give equal rights to those who historically have been left behind has always been a mission for Jeannine Peterson, even as a girl growing up in Pittsburgh.