2024 journal article

Necessary, burdensome, or threatening? Awareness of Black–White disparities in health care access and self-rated health for Black and White Americans.

American Journal of Orthopsychiatry.

By: V. Volpe n, C. Tobin*, D. Bernard*, P. Muhigaba & J. Ross n

Source: ORCID
Added: April 8, 2024

Awareness of racial health care inequities is one prerequisite to eliminating them. Although extant research has described awareness of racial health care inequities in the United States, the health impacts of such awareness on communities that are most impacted by these inequities remains unknown. Therefore, we examined associations between awareness of Black-White racial health care inequities and self-rated health for Black and White adults in the United States. We used survey data from non-Hispanic Black and White participants (