The National Urban League is the nation's oldest and largest community-based movement empowering African Americans to enter the social and economic mainstream. Critical to this mission is the successful promotion of affordable, and quality health care.

Minority communities have shorter life expectancies because they are more likely to experience striking health disparities such as higher rates of infant mortality, cancer, asthma, diabetes, glaucoma, cardiovascular disease and HIV/AIDS. Lack of access to health care and higher exposure to environmental and occupational hazards are among the factors that contribute to these disparities.

The National Urban League health agenda focuses on three major areas 1) health research; 2) health advocacy; and 3) health promotion and education. This includes attention to health access, quality and affordability issues and a focus on disease areas where health disparities are driven by lifestyle factors that can be controlled with education and behavior modification such as the diseases you can find on this website including diabetes, cancer, substance abuse, and HIV/AIDS.

NUL Health Authors and Sources

The information presented on this website was written, edited and/or compiled by professionals with graduate degrees in public health and extensive experience in minority health and health education, prevention and research. Only reliable and authoritative medical and health sources were used in developing NUL Health’s content. These sources are attributed at the end of each article or section.

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