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The health-care system in the United States has been called the best in the world. Yet wide disparities persist between social groups, and many Americans suffer from poorer health than people in other developed countries. In this revised edition of Health Disparities in the United States, Donald A. Barr provides extensive new data about the ways low socioeconomic status, race, and ethnicity interact to create and perpetuate these health disparities.

Antibiotics are powerful drugs that can prevent and treat infections, but they are becoming less effective as a result of drug resistance. Resistance develops because the bacteria that antibiotics target can evolve ways to defend themselves against these drugs. When antibiotics fail, there is very little else to prevent an infection from spreading. Unnecessary use of antibiotics in both humans and animals accelerates the evolution of drug-resistant bacteria, with potentially catastrophic personal and global consequences.

Cette publication est nécessaire afin de mieux comprendre et explorer la gamme complète des raisons pour lesquelles les personnes issue de la communauté Noire sont touchés de manière disproportionnée par COVID-19. Il est important de se pencher sur l'histoire des Noirs, l'histoire de la science, l'histoire de la recherche et l'histoire du système de santé en relation avec les personnes afrodescendantes.