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Black women and Latinas experience great barriers to good health and quality health care. They are often more likely than white, non-Hispanic men and white, non-Hispanic women to lack health insurance, live in poverty, not have enough food to eat, and experience housing insecurity. Deep inequities in our economic and health systems have led to Black women and Latinas having overall poorer health and access to fewer resources.
Nationally, 22.2% of Latinas and 12.0% of Black women aged 19 to 64 lacked health insurance coverage between 2017 and 2021. In comparison, 10.2% of white, non-Hispanic men and 7.6% of white, non-Hispanic women lacked health insurance coverage. Some states fare far worse, such as Georgia where 41.0% of Latinas aged 19 to 64 did not have health insurance. Additionally, many Black women and Latinas lived in poverty in 2021. While nationally, 18.8% of Black women lived in poverty compared to 7.1% of white, non-Hispanic men, some states face greater disparities. For example, 33.1% of Black women ages 18 and over in North Dakota live in poverty compared to 8.7% of white, non-Hispanic men. Overall, Black women and Latinas in many states report overall worse health than white non-Hispanic women and men in the same state.
Source Note: NWLC calculations of health insurance coverage for women overall based on 2021 American Community Survey (ACS) 1-year estimates table B27001 available at https://data.census.gov/. NWLC calculations of health insurance coverage for women by race/ethnicity based on 2017-2021 ACS 5-year estimates accessed through Steven Ruggles, Sarah Flood, Sophia Foster, Ronald Goeken, Jose Pacas, Megan Schouweiler and Matthew Sobek, Integrated Public Use Microdata Series USA (IPUMS USA): Version 11.0 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota, 2023), https://doi.org/10.18128/D010.V11.0. NWLC calculations of poverty based on 2021 ACS 1-year estimates table C17001 available at https://data.census.gov/.
NWLC calculations of fair or poor health for women overall based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2020-2021 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS) microdata. Atlanta, Georgia: U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, [2020-2021]. NWLC calculations of fair or poor health for women by race/ethnicity based on Centers for Disease Control and Prevention 2017-2021 BRFSS microdata.
NWLC calculations of food insufficiency and housing insecurity for women overall based on weeks 15-48 (September 16, 2020 – August 8, 2022) of the U.S Census Bureau, “Measuring Household Experiences During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic,” 2020-2023 Household Pulse Survey. NWLC calculations of food insufficiency and housing insecurity for women by race/ethnicity based on weeks 15–52 (September 16, 2020 – December 19, 2022) of the U.S Census Bureau “Measuring Household Experiences During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic,” 2020-2023 Household Pulse Survey. “Weeks” is the term used by the Census Bureau to define separate data collections in all phases, but “weeks” may be shorter or longer than a 7-day period. Refer to each data collection for more information.
