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Why It Matters

  • Prostate cancer has the largest racial disparities of any cancer in the United States.
  • Black men are 1.67 times more likely to be diagnosed with prostate cancer and 2.06 times more likely to die from it than White men.
  • Black men are more likely to be diagnosed with advanced-stage prostate cancer.
  • Black men are less likely to have knowledge of prostate cancer screening.
  • Several large epidemiologic studies suggest disproportionate increases in incidence and prevalence of kidney stone disease among women as well as Black and Hispanic individuals in the United States, whereas other studies of comparable size do not report racial and ethnic demographics.
  • Hispanic men are less likely to report or seek treatment for ED compared to Caucasian men.
  • Hispanic women have the highest prevalence of weekly incontinence, followed by white, Black, and Asian-American women.
  • Non-Hispanic Black men have the highest prevalence of urgency urinary incontinence, followed by Hispanic, non-Hispanic White, and Chinese men.
  • A Yale University found that our self-esteem was highly affected by bad hair days, with participants reporting feeling less smart, less capable, more embarrassed and less sociable.
  • Our hair frames the face and is considered by psychologists to be the most important in terms of first impressions.
  • Psychologist Elaine Slater noted that our hair is one of the features most often recalled after a social interaction.
  • She also notes: “Many associate confidence with feeling in control, and hair is one way that most of us can be in charge in terms of the vast number of ways in which we can alter it. Hair can give us the external appearance of being well managed and in control.
  • Hair, beauty, self-image, and identity are inextricably linked and influence each other.
  • The Association of Black Psychologists called hair discrimination an “esthetic trauma” and note that the mental health effects of hair discrimination are dire. In calling it a trauma with dire mental health effects, these professionals have elevated hair discrimination to parallel other known traumas and traumatic events whose negative health effects are well known and studied.
  • Hair discrimination may have significant effects on self-image, health, and well-being.
  • Hair discrimination in school-age children is perpetuated through bullying, and school appearance policies and codes.
  • In 2018, 56.2% of active physicians identified as White, while 5.0% identified as Black or African American.
  • Hispanic workers represented 15% of the total STEM workforce in 2021, and Asian and Black workers were 10% and 9%.
  • Underrepresented minorities—Hispanic, Black, and American Indian or Alaska Native individuals—made up a higher share of the skilled technical workforce (32%) in 2021 than of workers who were employed in STEM occupations with at least a bachelor’s degree (16%).
  • About one out of three asylum-seekers and refugees experience high rates of depression.
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