<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><xml><records><record><source-app name="HighWire" version="7.x">Drupal-HighWire</source-app><ref-type name="Journal Article">17</ref-type><contributors><authors><author><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Johnson, Teddi Dineley</style></author></authors><secondary-authors></secondary-authors></contributors><titles><title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">New APHA book examines health issues facing the black community</style></title><secondary-title><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">The Nation's Health</style></secondary-title></titles><dates><year><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010</style></year><pub-dates><date><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2010-03-01 00:00:00</style></date></pub-dates></dates><pages><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">4-4</style></pages><volume><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">40</style></volume><issue><style face="normal" font="default" size="100%">2</style></issue><abstract><style  face="normal" font="default" size="100%">Despite some recent gains in life expectancy, blacks in the United States continue to bear a disproportionate burden of disease, injury, death and disability relative to other racial and ethnic groups. Such health disparities can lead to earlier death, lower quality of life, higher health care costs, lost economic opportunities and myriad other inequities, according to a newly updated APHA book that not only documents the continuing gap but also calls on relevant sectors of U.S. society to actively acknowledge the disparities and embrace fresh strategies to remove them.</style></abstract></record></records></xml>