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Racial Disparities in Health and Medicine, Part 1
FromUseful Science
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Length:
63 minutes
Released:
Jul 1, 2021
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Podcast episode
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https://www.usefulscience.org/podcast/56This week we're talking about racial disparities in health and medicine. Ian and Deborah present research focusing on differences in cancer treatments for Black patients in contrast to White patients, and also discuss athlete head trauma and concussion education in the US.Music by Solomon Krause-Imlach.Follow us on Twitter as @usefulsci, Instagram as @usefulscience, or email us at podcast@usefulscience.org.Show NotesBlack patients in the U.S. are less likely to receive surgery as treatment for esophageal cancer, making them more likely to die from this type of cancer than white patients.Even though 1 in 8 women will develop breast cancer in their lifetime, survival rates have been improving over the last three decades. However, black women are still 40% more likely to die from breast cancer than white women in the U.S.Assessing Differences in Concussion Symptom Knowledge and Sources of Information Among Black and White Collegiate-Athletes
Released:
Jul 1, 2021
Format:
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