Health Disparities in Alzheimer's Disease among African Americans

Running Health: HEALTH DISPARITIES
Health Disparities
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HEALTH DISPARITIES 2
Health Disparities
Introduction
Even though disparity is normally interpreted largely to refer to ethnic or racial disparity,
numerous dimensions of disparity have been established in the united states of America,
especially in health (Clarke, Matthias and Julie 2017, 1). Disparity can be seen when the health
outcome is lesser or larger between the population. Disability, sex, age, sexual identity
geographic location, ethnicity or race, and socioeconomic status contributes to a person’s ability
to receive quality and good health (Stępkowski, Grażyna and Marcin 2015, 1-14). In this paper,
I will do a critical review of ‘Alzheimer’s Disease in African Americans: Risk Factors and
Challenges for the future’ by Barnes and Benett. I will discuss the health disparities in this
article, and the disparity intervention provided in the article.
Article Summary
This article talks about the Alzheimer’s disease which is a growing public challenge not
only for the health service workers and families but also to the policy-makers. The disease is
linked to age particularly for the population aged 65 years and above. However, Alzheimer’s
disease is prevalent among the racial and ethnic population like the African American (Barnes
and Bennett 2014, 580-586). African American are at high risk of suffering from dementia in
comparison to the non-Hispanic whites. However, much research has been conducted about the
Alzheimer’s disease among the non-Hispanic whites with few or no epidemiological research
among the African American population.
The objective of the article is to evaluate health disparities in the African American
population as well as coming up with the recommendations to bridge the identified disparities