The issues are bigger than just physical symptoms. The interactive social environment is an issue what you do and what gets done to you. Some might say that s not a health issue, but anytime an environment makes you feel unwelcome, that s a health issue. Access to care is an issue women and people of color don t have the same access to care as white males. Lack of health insurance.
People of color are less likely to have health insurance.
A recent study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that women and people of color who reported the same symptoms of heart disease as white men were not referred for cardiac catheterization as often as white men. Part of access is cultural competence in how health professionals who are predominantly white deliver care to people of color. If care isn t culturally competent, access isn t equal. Hypertension, heart disease, stroke, diabetes and cancer, especially prostate cancer, are major threats for African-American men. Asian men throughout the world have a high rate of smoking.