Health inequities disproportionately affect marginalized communities, namely racially and ethnically minoritized individuals. These include BIPOC and other disadvantaged individuals living in the United States with ancestral origins from all over the world, including mixed and multi-ancestries. These disparities lead to undue health burdens, including preventable disease risks and diagnoses.
According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, new analysis shows that certain minoritized groups, namely younger Blacks in their 20s, 30s, and 40s, are living with or dying from many diseases typically found in Whites at older ages. Also, research shows that language, geography, culture, race, and ethnicity affect adequate access to healthcare services leading to disparate health outcomes for BIPOC individuals.
At Color of Genes, we want to eliminate health inequities, especially for BIPOC and other marginalized individuals and their families. We strive to achieve this by focusing on patient needs.
Inequities in healthcare systems across the United States (and other systems, such as medical, political, legal, and societal) impact patient care, increase medical costs, and accelerate inequitable access to health-promoting resources. All leading to health risks and contributing to increased morbidities, co-morbidities, and mortalities among BIPOC and other minoritized individuals. For these reasons and more, Color of Genes was born.
We aim to reduce and eventually eliminate health inequities impacting BIPOC and other marginalized individuals. We achieve this by equipping BIPOC patients with a path to a network of culturally-conscious BIPOC genetic health practitioners of their choice offering culturally-conscious genetic health services and evidence-based resources. Learn more by reaching out to Color of Genes to get started on your path to precision health.
We encourage you to peruse our website for targeted information about genetic health services, scientific articles, educational resources, and FAQs. Contact us for questions and to get started.
Our diversity and health equity initiatives are to ensure everyone has an unbiased and equitable opportunity towards reaching their optimal health leading to enhanced patient care, improved patient safety, and high satisfaction ratings of services provided by genetic health practitioners. At Color of Genes, we execute our diversity and equity initiatives through our commitment to promoting patient and provider engagement that takes into account the importance of delivering healthcare at an individualized level with factors such as ancestry, race, ethnicity, gender, income, and geography positively influencing an individual’s health outcomes.
Our work is centered on eliminating barriers to accessing genetic carrier screenings, genetic diagnostic tests, genetic counseling, and other health-related services for patient communities by enabling pathways to culturally-conscious genetic health services and evidence-based resources offered by BIPOC genetic health practitioners to BIPOC patients of their choice.
As the field of human genetics and genomics evolves to be more inclusive of BIPOC and other minoritized individuals (both in genetic research conducted by scientists and in genetic health services delivered by healthcare practitioners), your path to precision health is within reach. We believe this progression will lead to reducing and eventually eliminating health inequities that threaten the safe, effective, and adequate delivery of healthcare services.
Your path to precision health starts with you.
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