The Health Impact of Resolving Racial Disparities: An Analysis of US Mortality Data
Steven H. Woolf, MD, MPH,
Robert E. Johnson, PhD,
George E. Fryer, Jr, PhD, MSW,
George Rust, MD, MPH and
David Satcher, MD, PhD
Steven H. Woolf and Robert E. Johnson are with Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond. At the time of this study, George E. Fryer Jr was with the American Academy of Family Physicians Robert Graham Center for Policy Studies in Family Practice and Primary Care, Washington, DC. George Rust and David Satcher are with the National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, Ga.
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FIGURE 1— Potential number of lives saved by improvements in age-adjusted mortality rates in the United States, 1991–2000.
Source. Age-adjusted death rates are from Table 35: Death rates for all causes, according to sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age: United States, selected years 1950–2001. National Center for Health Statistics. Available at: ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_Statistics/ NCHS/Publications/Health_US/hus03/Table035.xls. Potentially avoidable deaths were calculated as described in: http://www.vcu.edu/fp/research/AJPHaddendum.pdf.
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FIGURE 2— Difference in age-adjusted mortality rates of Whites and African Americans in 1991–2000 and potential number of lives saved if the rates had been comparable.
Source. Age-adjusted death rates are from Table 35: Death rates for all causes, according to sex, race, Hispanic origin, and age: United States, selected years 1950–2001. National Center for Health Statistics. Available at: ftp.cdc.gov/pub/Health_ Statistics/NCHS/Publications/Health_US/hus03/Table035.xls. Potentially avoidable deaths were calculated as described in: http://www.vcu.edu/fp/research/AJPHaddendum.pdf.
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