Smoking rates are higher among adults who live below the poverty level or who never attended college. Wealthy women are more likely to receive screening mammograms than women at other income levels. Adult obesity rates are noticeably higher among African-Americans and Latinos than whites.Why?
The National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities, part of the National Institutes of Health, launched two new centers Wednesday that will study those factors and their impact on different health outcomes for certain racial and ethnic groups, people of lower socioeconomic statuses and rural populations—and how to address these disparities.
