Health Profile Of North Carolinians PDF Download

Excerpt from The Health of Minorities in North Carolina As evidenced by recent inquiries to the State Center for Health Statistics about the health status of minority North Carolinians, the Report has raised concern about racial disparities in this state. One quick measure which is suggestive of significant disparities in North Carolina is life expectancy, a measure which summarizes the overall differences in the level of mortality among various groups. Minority females born in 1980 had a life expectancy at birth years less than that for white females. In 1940 the difference was years. Minority males had a life expectancy at birth years less than that for white males in 1980, but years less in 1940. While improvements have been made, minorities of both sexes still have life expectancies that were reached by whites prior to the mid-1950's, a lag of about 30 years. The lags in life expectancy raise questions about the health of minorities relative to whites. Specifically, to what extent are there disparities in health between whites and minorities, what have been the trends in those disparities in the past decade, and what are the specific problems and conditions for which the greatest disparities exist? These and other questions are examined in this paper through a comparative analysis of key statistical indicators of the health of minority and white North Carolinians. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.