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US blacks get inferior nursing home care to whites: studies
0 Comments | AFP, January, 2008
WASHINGTON (AFP) — Elderly black Americans in nursing homes get worse care than that enjoyed by their white counterparts, researchers at an elite US university have found.
"If you're black, you're much more likely to get your care in a nursing home that's not so good, relative to nursing homes that are serving predominantly white patients," Dr Vincent Mor, head of the department of community health at Rhode Island-based Brown University's school of medicine, told AFP on Tuesday.
Mor was one of the lead authors of a recent study which looked at "racial segregation in US nursing homes and its relationship to racial disparities in the quality of care."
That study published last year, which cited race data from nursing homes that has "only recently been made...
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