I found some of the article’s claims to be very interesting, in particular the statistics about gender differences and race differences in health. The article throws out many different statistics, in particular, the one about how white women have a life expectancy at birth that is 5.2 years greater than that of their black peers. However, this statistic doesn’t take into account the socioeconomic differences and other factors that affect this statistic.
Additionally, the fact that the mortality ratio of minority to white for men is similar to the ratio for women suggests a bigger factor explaining the health disparities is race (which also has many factors that may suggest why, for instance socioeconomic status, etc.).
Overall, I thought the article did a good job talking about all the factors associated with the health disparities among different races, but could have been clearer with explaining the reasoning behind some of the statistics.
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