Dr. Maxine Okafor and Sheronda Victorian discuss schizophrenia and the disparities within care: African Americans are diagnosed at four times the rate of whites, per Brandeis University.
Many studies over the years have explained that Black Americans are diagnosed at higher rates of schizophrenia than their white counterparts. In 2017, data collected from 45 studies show that African Americans are 2.4 times more likely to be diagnosed with a form of schizophrenia. More recent studies have shown that Black people are diagnosed at four times the rate of white Americans, per Brandeis University.
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