Racial health gap draws experts to Minnesota

ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — National experts gather in Prior Lake this week to focus on a stubborn racial health gap in one of the nation’s healthiest states.

Minorities in Minnesota face greater odds of dying from violence, diabetes and heart disease and less chance of having health insurance. Nonwhite teens are more likely to get pregnant than their white peers.
The “Health Equality” conference happens Wednesday through Friday at Mystic Lake Casino in Prior Lake.

The Office of Minority and Multicultural Health at the Minnesota Department of Health is hosting.

Speakers include a former American Public Health Association president and a deputy assistant secretary for minority health at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services.

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