The Office of Management and Budget announced Thursday that the U.S. government would revise how it categorizes race and ethnicity, adding the category of “Middle Eastern or North African” to forms ...

The U.S. Census Bureau will have new categories for race and ethnicity for the first time in 27 years, directly affecting people who identify as Hispanic, Latino, Middle Eastern and North African.

The changes, announced Thursday by the U.S. Office of Management and Budget, aim to better capture an increasingly diverse country and give policymakers a fuller view of Americans The federal ...

In a recent study published in Nature Medicine, researchers examined disparities in mortality rates by ethnicity, race, educational attainment, social vulnerability, and rurality, ascribed to ...

This research note presents a new perspective on the rural mortality penalty in the United States. While previous work has documented a growing rural mortality penalty, there has been a lack of ...

Middle Eastern and North African people in Nevada who are often misclassified as white or undercounted by state service providers will have a choice to self-identify for the first time under a new sub ...

The Dictionary definition of the word “discrimination” photo taken through magnifying glass from a page of a dictionary with selective focus. Professor Jeremy Bearer-Friend of the George Washington ...

More than 68 million people in the United States identify as ethnically Hispanic, making it one the nation’s fastest growing ...

Unlocking the power of health equity demands acknowledging a stark truth: race and ethnicity matter in cancer control planning. The current absence of robust and carefully analyzed race and ethnicity ...

Cancer Causes & Control, Vol. 32, No. 8 (August 2021), pp. 883-894 (12 pages) Introduction Esophageal cancer (EC) is an aggressive malignancy with poor prognosis. Mortality and disease stage at ...