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13 Still separate , still unequal
Four decades after the civil rights revolution began with the Supreme Court’s unanimous 1954 school desegregation decision, Brown v. Board of Education, the Supreme Court reversed itself in the 1990s, authorizing school districts to return to segregated and unequal public schools.... The new policies refl ected the victory of the conservative movement that altered the federal courts and turned ...
متن کاملSeparate and unequal care in New York City.
Bronx Health REACH, a coalition of communityand faith-based groups, health care providers, and an academic institution, recently examined the causes of racial and ethnic health disparities in the southwest Bronx and identified separate systems of care for uninsured and publicly insured patients, who are predominantly people of color, and those with private insurance. We found evidence that pati...
متن کاملSeparate and unequal: residential segregation and black health disparities.
There are well-known Black-White disparities in adverse birth outcomes, health behaviors, and chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, and hypertension. These disparities hold across socioeconomic status and have remained stable for the past 50 years despite efforts to reduce them. This theoretical review argues that such disparities may be largely a function of residential segregation, ie, t...
متن کاملA fatter, healthier but more unequal world
Lancet readers know that the world's population is getting heavier, but the detail in the latest overview of global trends in mean body-mass index (BMI) and the proportion of individuals classifi ed as overweight and obese remains striking. 1 In their pooled analysis of 1698 population-based studies, with more than 19 million participants representing most countries, the NCD Risk Factor Collabo...
متن کاملCommentary Genetic isolates: Separate but equal?
The tiny volcanic island of Tristan da Cunha is the most remote inhabited place on Earth. It lies in the South Atlantic, 1,700 miles and a week’s journey by boat from Cape Town, South Africa. The island’s population of 300 is descended from a handful of founders, mostly shipwreck survivors, who settled there in the 19th century. The small number of founders is reflected in the fact that only se...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: SSRN Electronic Journal
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1556-5068
DOI: 10.2139/ssrn.2414721