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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

That represents a loss of more than 80 million years of life, according to a 2023 JAMA study. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems. During the past two decades there have been 1.63 The design of the U.S. I call it institutional racism.”