WOMEN'S HEALTH DISPARITIES

While the overall health of the nation has improved during the past two decades, striking disparities remain in the rate of illnesses and deaths experienced by racial and ethnic minorities.

• African-American women have the highest mortality rate from breast cancer, colorectal cancer and cervical cancer of all population groups

• African-American women had a maternal mortality rate 3 times higher than white women in 2000

• Minority women are 2-3 times more likely than white, non-Hispanic women to have Type II diabetes

• The AIDS rate for African-American women is almost 4 times that for Hispanic women and almost 20 times that for white, non-Hispanic women

* US Department of Health and Human Services, Report on Health of Minority Women, July 2003

* National Women’s Law Center, Making the Grade on Women’s Health, 2004

Women's Health Links

• American Medical Women's Association
  
  
• The International Council on Women's Health Issues (ICOWHI)

• National Women's Law Center

• Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Women’s Health Coverage and Access to Car

• Women's Health
  
  
• Women's Health.gov
  
  
• World Health Organization