Health concerns and disease can affect all people, but they do not affect all people equally. For example, children of color suffer disproportionate burdens of disease with potential environmental aspects, including asthma, learning and developmental disabilities and cancer. African American women are more likely to die from heart disease, stroke or cancer than women of any other race.

Resources

Asian Pacific Islander American Health Forum’s Healthy People 2010 Policy Brief (2006)

Breast Cancer Fund's Breast Cancer and Race factsheet

California Pan-Ethnic Health Network Resources

Center for Environmental Oncology’s Environmental Risks of Breast Cancer in African American Women

Center for Justice, Tolerance and Community’s Still Toxic After All These Years report

Latino Coalition for a Healthy California’s Latino Health in California Factsheet 2005

National Asian Women’s Health Organization’s Emerging Communities: A Health Needs Assessment of South Asian Women in 3 California Counties report

National Environmental Justice Advisory Council’s Ensuring Risk Reduction In Communities With Multiple Stressors: Environmental Justice And Cumulative Risks/Impacts

National Institutes Of Health’s Women of Color Health Data Book: Adolescents to Seniors  

National Latina Institute for Reproductive Health’s The Reproductive Health of Women Latinas in the US report 

Trust for America’s Health Your State's Health resources

United Church of Christ Justice & Witness Ministries Toxic Wastes and Race at Twenty: 1987-2007 report

U.S Department of Health and Human Services’ National Healthcare Disparities Report, 2005