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Healthcare disparities often link to social and economic disadvantages. What other type of disadvantage are healthcare disparities related to?

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Answer: Healthy People 2020 defines a health disparity as “a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and environmental disadvantage” and notes that disparities. Adversely affect groups of people who have systematically experienced greater obstacles to health based on their racial or ethnic group, religion, socioeconomic status, gender, age, mental health, cognitive, sensory, or physical disability, orientation or gender identity geographic.

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