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Journal Focuses on Black-White Mortality Gap

NPR | By Rachel Jones
Published March 8, 2005 at 9:00 PM PST

In an issue of the journal Health Affairs that is devoted to racial disparities in health care, former U.S. Surgeon General David Satcher calls for greater equality in health care to close the gaps between blacks and whites in death rates and life expectancy.

Copyright 2005 NPR
Rachel Jones
Rachel Jones reports on education, social policy, and welfare reform issues at NPR. She has also covered children’s health and development, as well as well as racial disparities in health care.