Facts and Figures

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> Georgians with No Healthcare Insurance
> Health and Religious Faith
> Understanding and Improving Health

Health care in the United States is among the best in the world. However, people of color and other vulnerable populations are more likely to experience health care barriers and to suffer from high rates of disease and early death.
Source: Eliminating Health Disparities in the United States, Health Resources and Services Administration, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, November 2000. http://www.hrsa.gov/

The infant mortality rate for African Americans is more than double that of whites. The rate for American Indians and Alaska Natives is almost double that of whites.

African American men have a rate of prostate cancer that is double that for white men.

Women of Vietnamese origin in the United States suffer from cervical cancer at nearly five times the rate for white women.

Women have shown increased death rates over the past decade in areas where men have experienced improvements, such as lung cancer.