A new study that exam­ines health care in West Vir­ginia finds that dis­par­i­ties along races exist in health fac­tors. Health Care For Amer­ica Now says that amongst African-Americans more peo­ple with dia­betes and more babies die than those with from other races. The study also has data that shows that rates of poverty are higher with eth­nic minorities.

Instead of grab­bing a snip­pet that has peo­ple talk­ing about the pos­si­ble causes, we decided to grab more stats for this post. From the Charleston Daily Mail reporter Michelle Sax­ton dives deeper into the report.

# West Virginia’s infant mor­tal­ity rate for black babies from 2003 to 2005 was 12 out of 1,000 live births, which is 60 per­cent higher than the 7.5 fig­ure for white babies, the report shows.

# The life expectancy for a black per­son is six to 10 years shorter than that of a white person.

# The dia­betes mor­tal­ity rate for blacks is 85.3 deaths per 100,000 peo­ple com­pared to 33.3 for whites.

# The rate of annual AIDS cases for blacks is 41.8 per 100,000 com­pared to 3.7 for whites.

# About 32 per­cent of blacks live in poverty com­pared to 19 per­cent of whites.

# About 32 per­cent of blacks are enrolled in Med­ic­aid com­pared to 17 per­cent of whites.

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