BOSTON — The oral health of ethnic minorities and lower - income groups is much
worse than that of the general population, but leveraging social networks and other innovative healthcare delivery channels may help close this troubling gap.
Not surprisingly, the area where the people with stroke were most affected was physical functioning, where 63 percent had scores considered meaningfully
worse than those of the general population, with an average score of 59, where a score of 50 is considered the population average.
Not exact matches
A 2005 study in the Journal
of Nutrition found that raw - foodists were far less likely
than the
general population to register high levels
of «
bad» LDL cholesterol.
Data collection on Indigenous prisoner health status is very poor, however, given the extensive evidence
of Indigenous health inequality, it is reasonable to assume that Indigenous prisoners would experience «a health status the same or probably
worse than that
of the
general prisoner
population».