Why Focus on Minority Health Care Issues: The Clinical and Moral Imperative

Racial/Ethnic Minorities Disproportionately Affected
by Many Chronic Diseases

• Diabetes and Hypertension
  - 50-200% greater prevalence

• Cardiovascular Disease
  - 50-200% greater CV and stroke mortality rates

• Renal Disease
  - 200-400% greater prevalence

• Cancer
  - 50-200% greater mortality rates for "treatable" cancers if not detected early

• HIV
  -200-400% greater prevalence of HIV & AIDS mortality rates