Population Differences in Health Outcomes

I read these stats in an email from National Council for Behavioral Health today. Pretty eye-opening. More of us need to be aware of these systemic differences in health outcomes for Americans.

Click on the links to see the research.

• LGBT (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) youth are two to three times more likely to attempt suicide than their heterosexual counterparts.
• More than two-thirds of Southeast Asian refugees receiving mental health care were diagnosed with PTSD associated with trauma experienced before and after immigration to the U.S.
• People of color are overrepresented in prisons and jails. Additionally, blacks account for 37 percent of drug arrests but only 14 percent of people who regularly use drugs.
• Native Americans experienced a 236 percent increase in deaths from heroin overdose between 2010 and 2014.

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