African American Women Dying Too Soon

This from Choice Magazine via Alternet which reads, in part:

When researchers analyzed data from 1991 to 2000 they discovered that more than 800,000 African Americans died during that decade because they didn't receive the same health care as their white counterparts.

When African Americans do receive care, it is often of lesser quality. "We have evidence that physicians treat blacks differentially in ways that disadvantage black patients," says Jay Kaufman, an epidemiologist at the University of North Carolina who studies health disparities. "Blacks are seen less often by specialists, receive less appropriate preventive care -- [for example] mammography and influenza vaccinations -- lower-quality/less intensive hospital care, fewer cardiovascular procedures, fewer lung resections for cancer, fewer kidney and bone marrow transplants, fewer orthopedic procedures, fewer antiretrovirals for HIV infection, fewer antidepressants for depression, fewer admissions for chest pain, lower-quality prenatal care."
Black women are in the vanguard of those receiving inferior health care, with greater incidence of and mortality from nearly every major disease, including diabetes, heart disease, HIV/AIDS, hypertension, and some forms of cancer:

From W.E.B. DuBois, The Souls of Black Folk: My college training did not altogether omit Karl Marx. He was mentioned at Harvard and taken into account in Berlin. It was not omission but lack of proper emphasis or comprehension among my teachers of the revloution in thought and action which Marx meant. So perhaps I might end this retrospect simply by saying: I still think today as yesterday that the color line is a great problem of this century. But today I see more clearly than yesterday that back of the problem of race and color, lies a greater problem which both obscures and implements it; and that is the fact that so many civilized persons are willing to live in comfort even if the price of this is poverty, ignorance and disease of the majority of their fellowmen; that to maintain this privilege men have waged war until today war tends to become universal and continuous, and the excuse for this war continues laregely to be color and race.