African American Health Care and Medical Information BlackHealthCare. The state of health for African-Americans is especially precarious.
Chronic disease has an excessive impact on minority populations.
Infant mortality rates are twice as high for African Americans as for white Americans. In our Community Issues section we document and discuss the staggering losses due to the affliction of chronic disease among the African-American community. We highlight the neglected innovative community-based programs of our community attempting to address this problem. Our approach to presenting this information is straight forward, and in lay-man's terms that can be understood by patients and students. For each disease we provide sections covering its description, epidemiology, prevention, diagnosis and evaluation, treatment, contraindications, clinical trials, case management, references, and end stage disease.