/tags/health-disparities Health Disparities en-US Copyright Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:19:19 GMT /health/2022-02-09/seven-months-into-ncs-medicaid-transition-data-show-patients-are-still-confused Wed, 09 Feb 2022 20:19:19 GMT /health/2022-02-09/seven-months-into-ncs-medicaid-transition-data-show-patients-are-still-confused Clarissa Donnelly-DeRoven | North Carolina Health News /health/2020-07-02/digging-deeper-into-ncs-racial-disparities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic North Carolina’s COVID-19 cases continue to climb, and the state’s Black and Latino populations are being hit the hardest. Black citizens comprise about… Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:41:24 GMT /health/2020-07-02/digging-deeper-into-ncs-racial-disparities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic Josie Taris, Anita Rao /show/the-state-of-things/2020-07-02/digging-deeper-into-ncs-racial-disparities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic North Carolina’s COVID-19 cases continue to climb, and the state’s Black and Latino populations are being hit the hardest. Black citizens comprise about… Thu, 02 Jul 2020 15:41:24 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-07-02/digging-deeper-into-ncs-racial-disparities-during-the-covid-19-pandemic Josie Taris, Anita Rao /health/2020-06-03/nc-latinos-four-times-more-likely-to-contract-covid-19 Thirty-nine percent of the people with confirmed cases of coronavirus in North Carolina are Hispanic. But Latinos only make up 9.6% of the total… Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:56:41 GMT /health/2020-06-03/nc-latinos-four-times-more-likely-to-contract-covid-19 Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2020-06-03/nc-latinos-four-times-more-likely-to-contract-covid-19 Thirty-nine percent of the people with confirmed cases of coronavirus in North Carolina are Hispanic. But Latinos only make up 9.6% of the total… Wed, 03 Jun 2020 15:56:41 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-06-03/nc-latinos-four-times-more-likely-to-contract-covid-19 Grant Holub-Moorman, Frank Stasio /health/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty In North Carolina and across the nation, black communities are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. But there has been… Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:17:03 GMT /health/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty Stacia Brown, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty In North Carolina and across the nation, black communities are contracting and dying from COVID-19 at disproportionately high rates. But there has been… Wed, 22 Apr 2020 16:17:03 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2020-04-22/in-black-communities-fight-against-covid-19-the-real-pre-existing-condition-is-poverty Stacia Brown, Frank Stasio /health/2019-08-20/a-greensboro-nurse-fights-african-american-health-disparities When Stephanie Pickett was a nurse at Duke University Medical Center, more than 90% of the patients she saw with kidney failure were black. This shocking… Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:35:43 GMT /health/2019-08-20/a-greensboro-nurse-fights-african-american-health-disparities Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /show/the-state-of-things/2019-08-20/a-greensboro-nurse-fights-african-american-health-disparities When Stephanie Pickett was a nurse at Duke University Medical Center, more than 90% of the patients she saw with kidney failure were black. This shocking… Tue, 20 Aug 2019 15:35:43 GMT /show/the-state-of-things/2019-08-20/a-greensboro-nurse-fights-african-american-health-disparities Amanda Magnus, Frank Stasio /science-technology/2019-01-23/study-discrimination-drives-more-black-youth-to-action A study from N.C. State University and the University of Chicago has found that exposure to racial discrimination is connected to the willingness of black… Wed, 23 Jan 2019 18:06:06 GMT /science-technology/2019-01-23/study-discrimination-drives-more-black-youth-to-action Rebecca Martinez