Disparities in the News and NPR
Relative Morbidity by Race/Ethnicity
Health Care Spending
Life Expectancy
Miscellaneous
100
The year that women gained the right to vote.
What is 1920?
100
The race/ethnicity that has the highest overall death rate.
What is black / African-American?
100
The state with the highest health care expenditure per capita.
What is Massachusetts?
100
The country with the highest life expectancy at birth (82.6 yrs).
What is Japan?
100
This race/ethnicity of mothers has the highest infant mortality rates.
What is African American?
200
Women on average earn this many cents per a man's dollar.
What is 77 cents?
200
The race/ethnicity that has the highest rate of suicide.
What is white (non-Hispanic)?
200
The gender which has significantly more health care expenditures.
What is women?
200
The country with the lowest life expectancy at birth (32 yrs).
What is Swaziland?
200
Which race/ethnicity is the majority in Los Angeles County?
What is Hispanic?
300
Asian men early this much more than Hispanic women each week (on average.)
What is $465?
300
The race/ethnicity that has the lowest mortality rate from HIV/AIDS?
What is Asian/Pacific Islander?
300
The state with the lowest per capita healthcare expenditure.
What is Utah?
300
In the United States, women live this much longer than men (on average.)
What is 6 years?
300
The current population of Los Angeles County (to the nearest million.)
What is 10 million!
400
The U.S. state that is currently in the news for its past eugenics program, which largely targeted young women and sterilized them without their knowledge or consent.
What is North Carolina?
400
The race/ethnicity that has the lowest mortality rate from lung/bronchus/trachea cancer.
What is Hispanic / Latino?
400
The state that has the lowest Medicaid expenditure per enrollee.
What is California?
400
The U.S. state/district with the lowest life expectancy?
What is the District of Columbia?
400
The race/ethnicity that has the lowest infant mortality rate.
What is Asian / Pacific Islander?
500
The study where poor rural black males were not given syphilis treatment to study the natural progression of the disease.
What is the Tuskegee Experiment?
500
The race/ethnicity that has the highest mortality rate from chronic liver disease and cirrhosis.
What is American Indian / Alaska native?
500
This state had the highest aggregate healthcare spending in the nation (10.8% of the total!)
What is California?
500
California has the 6th longest life expectancy in the U.S. Name one state that has a longer life expectancy than California.
What is 5.) Massachusetts; 4.) North Dakota; 3.) Connecticut; 2.) Minnesota; 1.) Hawaii?
500
There are 114 Planned Parenthood Locations in California. There are this many in Alabama.
What is 2?