Sidebar: The Impact of the Affordable Care Act on the Health of Racial and Ethnic Minority Communities in North Carolina
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Bell, Ronny A.; Little, N. Ruth Gaskins
- Source
- North Carolina Medical Journal; 2020, Vol. 81 Issue: 6 p372-373, 2p
- Subject
- Language
- ISSN
- 00292559
North Carolina is one of the most racially and ethnically diverse states in the country, with a total minority population exceeding one-third of the state's total population, which is approximately 25% African American and nearly 10% Hispanic/Latino ethnicity [1]. North Carolina also has the largest American Indian population of any state east of the Mississippi River (approximately 2% of the state's population) with its American Indian residents represented by eight state or federally recognized tribes and four Urban Indian Centers across the state [2].