When we have knowledge, we have the information we need to act. Our growing collection of #BlackHealthFacts, originally launched on Juneteenth 2020, demonstrates how both the physical andmental health of Black Americans几个世纪以来，在冠状病毒大流行期间最近受到种族偏见和不公平的影响。通过审查问题并提高意识，我们的目标是迎接更好的资源，最终更好地保健和黑人美国人的自我照顾。
Learn More About Our Mission to Highlight the Issues and Influence Change
精神健康
黑人美国人更有可能经历焦虑，抑郁和情绪困扰的其他症状而不是白人美国人，但它们也不太可能接受治疗。在我们的心理健康方面，#blackhealth.fact.：Highlighting the Issues and Influencing Change那帕特里斯哈里斯，MD那a psychiatrist and Everyday Health’s medical editor in chief at large, looks at how stigma, mistrust of the healthcare system, and other factors have contributed to this lack of care and how Black Americans can get better help in the future.
观看视频系列and Check Out Our#blackhealthfacts资源中心
耻辱是解决黑人美国人心理健康的障碍
“在寻求帮助下没有羞耻，没有羞耻，”哈里斯博士说。
Watch Episode 1: How Does Stigma Associated With Mental Health Impact Black Americans?
了解更多内容Nursing Research。
对黑人美国人之间的医疗保健系统的不信任对他们的健康产生负面影响
A history of mistreatment, such as in the U.S. Public Health ServiceSyphilisStudy at Tuskegee, as well as existing socioeconomic and healthcare inequities, are among the factors contributing to this mistrust.
Watch Episode 2: Why Is Trust in the Healthcare System Critical to Improve Black Americans' Health?
了解更多这Commonwealth Fund。
为黑人美国人寻找文化响应的护理
Finding a mental health care provider who’s a good fit for you can be a challenge, but Dr. Harris says don’t give up. “The key is to ask questions. You may not find the perfect fit or a good fit on your first try. Keep trying,” she encourages.
对精神健康的自我照顾优先考虑，这是至关重要的
经常运动，每晚睡8个小时，吃健康的饮食都很重要。“我们希望确保我们优先考虑自己，我们练习自我照顾，”哈里斯说。
了解更多内容Jama Network开放。
强烈的黑人女性的压力可能对健康有害
“As Black women, we have to take off that mantle of being the strong Black woman,” Harris says. “We have to make sure that we do all that we can to take care of our physical health as well as our mental health.”
Watch Episode 5: How Can the Pressure to Be a Strong Black Woman Harm Health?
了解更多内容Research in Nursing and HealthandJAMA精神病学。
High Maternal Mortality in Black Women Is Representative of a Larger Problem
Black women are more likely to experience these preventable deaths than white women. “We need to make sure that women are heard and that their complaints are taken seriously, whether that’s around pain or leg swelling or their depressed mood,” Harris says.
了解更多CDCand in the CDC’sMorbidity and Mortality Weekly Report。
精神健康Problems Among Young Black Adults
Black young adults ages 18 to 25 experience higher rates of mental health problems and lower rates of mental health service utilization compared with their white counterparts.
了解更多哥伦比亚大学精神病学。
Black Americans Are Less Likely to Seek Mental Health Treatment
只有33％的黑人美国人在2019年寻求任何精神疾病的精神疾病，而50％的白人美国人所做的。与精神疾病有关的耻辱，在医疗保健系统中缺乏信任，提供者之间缺乏种族和种族多样性，缺乏保险或不经济的是若干因素，这是有贡献这种差异的影响，但有许多组织可以提供帮助。
Learn more about these精神健康Resources for Black Americans并获得更多关于事实和统计数据的信息CDC's National Health Interview SurveyandHHS的药物滥用和心理健康服务管理局。
百万报告过去一年的精神疾病
黑人美国人的成年人更有可能拥有比白人成人的悲伤，绝望和毫无价值的感觉，而过去一年则报告的患有精神疾病的16％。
了解更多信息美国卫生与人类服务部少数民族健康和心理健康。
慢性条件
Although More Common in White Americans, Studies Find That Black Americans With Afib Are More at Risk
心房颤动是一个影响心脏两个顶部室的“电气问题”，症状如血栓，头晕和shortness of breath。
了解更多内容贾马心脏病学。
Looking for a Specialist?
这Association of Black Cardiologists offers aCardiologist Finder在它的网站上。
Chronic Liver Disease Is the 9th Leading Cause of Death for Black People
2018年，慢性liver diseasewas the ninth leading cause of death for non-Hispanic Black Americans 45 to 64 years old.
了解更多信息少数民族健康办公室。
Want to Learn More About Cancer Research and Advocacy?
癌症研究中的少数群体（Micr）那a group within the American Association for癌症研究那works toward preventing and curing cancer while advancing the careers of minority scientists.
非洲裔美国人群中看到的结直肠癌差异
非洲裔美国人经常被诊断出来结直肠癌在较早的年龄和更先进的疾病。
了解更多内容theAmerican Journal of Pathology。
RELATED：Chadwick Boseman的死亡突出了结直肠癌的变化趋势
Largest Study Examines Cardiovascular Disease in Black Americans
的杰克on Heart Study (JHS) is the largest investigation of causes of cardiovascular disease in Black Americans, involving more than 5,300 men and women in Jackson, Mississippi.
了解更多内容the美国心脏协会杂志and the杰克逊心脏研究。
有关的：黑人美国人，吸烟和更大的卒中风险
Heart Failure Rates Higher Among Black Americans
心脏衰竭那a major public health problem, has increased most dramatically in young Black American men and women.
了解更多信息American Heart Associationand in theJournal of the American College of Cardiology。
Study Enrolling African Americans With Multiple Sclerosis
这UCSF多发性硬化遗传学项目is enrolling patients with multiple sclerosis to better understand how and why MS affects African Americans the way it does.
了解更多内容Current Neurology and Neuroscience Reports。
有关的：新研究挑战非洲裔美国人的旧信仰
阿尔茨海默氏症的非洲裔美国人的数量正在增长
根据阿尔茨海默氏症的协会，所有65岁以上的人中有超过10％具有阿尔茨海默病。预计2030年，非洲裔美国人65岁及以上的数量将达到690万。
了解更多信息疾病控制和预防中心（CDC）。
非洲裔美国人的糖尿病相关风险更大
与白人美国人相比，非洲裔美国人是更可能to be diagnosed with end-stage renal disease (3.5 times), be hospitalized for lower limb amputations (2.3 times), experience visual impairment (1.6 times), and die from diabetes (2 times).
了解更多内容theNational Health Interview Survey。
新冠肺炎
Black Americans Closely Follow COVID-19 News
About one-quarter (26 percent) of Black American adults said they discuss the新冠肺炎outbreak nearly all the time, more than twice the 10 percent of white adults who said the same.
了解更多信息Pew Research Center。
不成比例的Covid-19在黑人美国人中报告的死亡
According to U.S. death rates from COVID-19 data across all states:
- 1在1,500名黑人美国人死亡。
- 1 in 3,200 Latino Americans have died.
- 3个白色美国人在3,600人死亡。
- 1在3,700名亚裔美国人死亡。
Black Americans experience the highest overall mortality rates and the most widespread occurrence of disproportionate deaths.
了解更多APM研究实验室。
黑人美国Covid-19患者在美国的两倍次死亡
As of October 14, 2020, at least 41,090 Black lives have been lost to COVID-19. That means Black Americans are dying at a rate that's more than 2 times higher than the overall population.
了解更多Covid种族数据跟踪器。
Women's Health
非洲裔美国女性患有三重阴性乳腺癌的非洲裔美国女性的结果更糟糕
这study examined 23,123 African American and white women who had been diagnosed with triple negative breast cancer.
了解更多内容JAMA肿瘤学。
有关的：Closing the Gap in Breast Cancer Care and Support for Black Women
非洲裔美国女性更有可能具有高血压
Heart Disease and Stroke Risk Associated With Weight
超重的人是更可能to suffer from heart disease and卒中风险因素如高血压和糖尿病。
了解更多信息美国人力服务部少数民族健康办公室。
儿童的健康
儿童超重，肥胖和健康后果
非洲裔美国社区的肥胖可以归因于许多社会元素，包括经济适用房，收入和教育。健康后果包括2型糖尿病，高血压和心脏病的风险增加。
了解更多信息国家健康研究院和“我们可以”计划。
新生儿分娩死亡率的差异
A 2020 study found that Black newborns were more likely to die in the hospital than white newborns when cared for by white physicians. The authors did not offer a reason by, but wrote that “it gives warrant for hospitals and other care organizations to invest in efforts to reduce such biases and explore their connection to institutional racism.”
了解更多内容the国家科学院的诉讼程序。
种族身份可以减少歧视的影响
当孩子理解和识别他或她的种族或族群时，歧视的长期负面影响受到调节。
研究发现非洲血栓儿童更容易受到MIS-C
Multisystem inflammatory syndrome (MIS-C), which affects blood vessels and organs, has symptoms similar to those ofKawasaki disease。
有关的：Black Children May Be More Vulnerable to COVID-19 Inflammatory Syndrome
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黑人美国人可能会收到更少的预防性护理，即使的结果
在2002年至2016年期间的医疗保健支出24万亿美元的分析中，美国收到的护理类型因种族和种族而异。根据Coauthor Joseph Dieleman的研究同志，黑人美国人花了更多的紧急护理。
了解更多贾玛。
Studies Reveal Possible Ways to Reduce Dementia Risk In Black Americans
黑人的痴呆率几乎是白人个人的两倍。行为干预可以减缓旧黑人美国人的记忆下降。
了解更多内容jama神经病学。
得到支持！
非洲裔美国精神卫生供应商（AAMHP）serves as a database for people of color to seek mental health professionals.
Black Americans More Skeptical of Experimental Drugs
刚刚超过一半的黑人美国成年人（54％）表示，如果一个人今天可用，他们肯定会或可能会得到冠状病毒疫苗;44％的人说他们不会。在西班牙裔和白人成年人中，74％的人表示，他们不会大约四分之一。
了解更多信息Pew Research Center。
非洲裔美国人参与临床试验
只有33％的非洲裔美国妇女和41％的非裔美国人表示，如果意味着改变或开始药物，他们愿意参加审判。
这Top 10 U.S. Counties That Lack Adequately Nutritious Food Are Predominantly African American
了解更多Feeding America。
