Examples of disparity in the following topics:
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- Health disparities refer to gaps in the quality of health and healthcare across racial and ethnic groups.
- Health disparities based on race also exist.
- Health disparities based on race also exist.
- Infant mortality is another place where racial disparities are quite evident.
- Another disparity is access to health care and insurance.
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- However, it is generally accepted that disparities can result from three main areas:
- Reasons for disparities in access to health care are many, but can include the following:
- Health disparities resulting from economic stratification are wide-ranging.
- Disparities in health care between the rich and poor are not inevitable - they are directly correlated with disparities in wealth.
- Health disparities based on race also exist.
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- There is evidence that black senior citizens are more likely to be abused - both physically and psychologically and suffer greater financial exploitation than do white senior citizens.Further, recent demographic profiles suggest that social aging varies across racial groups, and demonstrates that minority elders (especially Hispanic and African American identified) typically enter later life with less education, less financial resources, and less access to health care than their white counterparts.Finally, researchers have noted that minority groups' greater likelihood of facing patterns of structural disadvantage throughout the life course, such as racial discrimination, poverty, and fewer social, political, and economic resources on average, create significant racial variations in the stages or age-related trajectories of racial minorities and majorities that may be observed at all points of the life span, and contribute to disparities in health, income, self-perceived age, mortality, and morbidity.
- As a result, sociologists often explore the timing (in both subjective and objective conceptualizations of age) of varied life events within and between racial groups while exploring ways that age-related disparities influence the structural realities and bio-social outcomes of people located within different racial groups.
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- Savage Inequalities, a 1991 book by Jonathan Kozol, examines the class- and race-based disparities in education.
- Kozol's observations illustrated the disparities between schools.
- Kozol concludes that these disparities in school quality perpetuate inequality and constitute de facto segregation.
- Savage Inequalities, a 1991 book by Jonathan Kozol, examines the class- and race-based disparities in education.
- Savage Inequalities, a 1991 book by Jonathan Kozol, examines the class- and race-based disparities in education.
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- Disparities in health services play out based on different systems of stratification, such as gender.
- There are a number of ways in which health disparities play out based on different systems of stratification.
- Researchers also find health disparities based on gender stratification.
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- Racial disparities in health care often center around socioeconomic status, diet, and education.
- Health disparities refer to gaps in the quality of health and health care across racial and ethnic groups.
- Ethnic minorities may also have specific healthcare needs that need to be taken into consideration by health services in order to tackle health disparities.
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- Federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex.
- The Equal Pay Act of 1963 is a United States federal law amending the Fair Labor Standards Act, aimed at abolishing wage disparity based on sex.
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- The achievement gap refers to the observed disparity in educational measures between the performance of groups of students, especially groups defined by gender, race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status.
- This disparity include standardized test scores, grade point average, dropout rates and college enrollment and/or completion rates.
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- Given the calculation of the metric, a country with wide disparities in income could appear to be economically stronger than a country where the income disparities were significantly lower (standard of living).
- GDP can be adjusted to compare the purchasing power across countries but cannot be adjusted to provide a view of the economic disparities within a country.
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- However, these outcome disparities are not usually the result of biological determinants of health, which means that minority populations are not biologically less healthy than white populations.
- Rather, the disparity in medical outcomes is more likely attributed to social determinants of health, which are socioeconomic conditions that bear on health.