Sentences with phrase «rates than white women»

Due to systemic barriers, women of color rely on the Title X program at higher rates than White women.

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Non-Hispanic black (NHB) women «continued to have higher breast cancer death rates than [non-Hispanic white] women, with rates 39 % higher in NHB women in 2015, although the disparity has ceased to widen since 2011.»

Nationally, black women have a maternal mortality rate three to four times higher than white women, and the District suspects its gap is even wider.

Black and Latina women tend to be poorer and are more often unemployed, and their abortion rates are two to three times higher than those for white women.

Let me use an example from public health: white woman have a higher rate of developing breast cancer over black woman in the United States, yet even with more cases fewer white woman die from breast cancer than black woman.

It seems that the rates reported in this database for low - risk pregnancies (excluding malpresentation and other factors) are all as good as or better in every category other than intrapartum death rate of babies, which I am having a hard time finding in the other literature on hospital births in the U.S. for low - risk, white women.

The authors of this study examined all races, but white women account for more than 90 % of women choosing home birth, and the neonatal death rate for white women is much lower than that for all races.

Its Committee on Fetus and Newborn wrote Monday that less than 1 percent of all births in the U.S. are homebirths, but that rate has been increasing among white women in recent years.

All sorts of hilarious errors — using one type of data (ICD10 code data from «white healthy women» and essentially comparing the best possible data from one set of hospital data related to low - risk births to the worst possible single set of data related to high - risk at - home births)-- if you use the writer's same data source for hospital births but include all comers in 2007 - 2010 (not just low - risk healthy white women), the infant death rate is actually 6.14 per 1000, which is «300 % higher death rate than at - home births!»

When we compare the death rate at homebirth of 2.06 / 1000 with the CDC death rate for low risk white women, ages 20 - 44, at term, with babies that are not growth restricted of 0.38, we find that homebirth has a death rate 5.5 X higher than hospital birth.

Given that the mortality rate for black infants is more than twice that of white infants, more needs to be done to ensure that all women can give their babies the powerful life - saving, brain - boosting and health - giving benefits of breastfeeding.

He talks about how the African - American community's illegitimacy rate has reached 70 percent, But he does not touch on the fact that Black women are less likely to have an abortion than White women.

James said that while there is a 99 percent survival rate if breast cancer is detected early, black women are 42 percent more likely to die from breast cancer than their white counterparts and Hispanic women have significantly higher rates of being diagnosed with advanced breast cancer than either white or black women.

Yet even with the cross-race increases in deaths related to pregnancy, in 2007 the maternal mortality rate for black women was still nearly three times higher than the rate for white women.

The researchers found that black women in the United States are dying from cervical cancer at a rate 77 percent higher than previously thought, while white women are dying at a rate 47 percent higher.

In fact, African - American women had higher cancer rates at nearly all ages compared with white women, and the disparity was more pronounced at older ages, likely attributable to African - American women reporting a higher prevalence of hysterectomy than white women.

Men are more likely than women to develop melanoma; the death rate varies by race and ethnicity and is highest among white people.

They also found that white men and women had substantially greater fracture rates than Asian individuals.

Overall, African - American women had higher rates of metabolic syndrome, particularly high blood pressure and high fasting blood sugar levels, than white women at the beginning of the study.

African - American women experienced a much more rapid increase in metabolic syndrome severity before menopause, but a slower rate of increase after menopause, than white women.

(JOSE LUIS PELEAZ / GETTY IMAGES) Even though breast cancer incidence rates are slightly lower overall among African - American women than white women (the incidence is lower still among Hispanic, Asian, and Native American women), a combination of socioeconomic factors and unexplained biological differences make the disease more deadly — and in some cases, harder to treat — in the black community.

Among white women, rates ranged from nearly 5 per 100,000 among those 15 to 24, to nearly 61 per 100,000 among those older than 85, the researchers found.

Among African American women, these risk factors steadily increased in the years prior to menopause at a greater rate than for white women, suggesting that African - American women may be more vulnerable to the changes occurring prior to menopause.

From 2011 to 2013, rates of early - stage diagnoses were still lower among Latinas and African Americans than they were for white women, but the gap did narrow a tiny bit.

The rates of black and Native American women killed are significantly higher than white or Asian women... murders were committed by spouses than dating partners.

But Kim Barker's astonishing experience, despite being directly acknowledged as a white woman's viewpoint, becomes more of an exotic version of Eat Pray Love rather than develop the self - awareness into a meaningful representation of what exactly media coverage and the quest for ratings and airtime means for war journalists and their contacts on the ground.

Women and faculty of color rate their institutions lower than men and white faculty on overall satisfaction.

For years, the question of why women and people of color leave law firms at a rate much higher than white men has plagued law firm leaders and administrators.

Women and minority lawyers are also reported to be more dissatisfied, and the attrition rate among minority lawyers was almost 50 % higher than among white lawyers.

The rates of unhappiness among women and minorities in the profession is typically higher than those of white men.