Having more Black primary care physicians in a given area is linked with better survival-related outcomes for the Black people who live there, according to new JAMA Network Open data. These findings...
A new study out of the Regenstrief Institute and Indiana University presents a snapshot of cancer health literacy, revealing mixed knowledge of cancer adherence screening guidelines that...
A new HHS Office of the Inspector General (OIG) report is putting CMS on blast for not accurately reporting on nursing home issues on the agency’s Care Compare sites, which healthcare consumers...
Involving community support persons in the birthing experience can counter obstetric racism impacting the maternal health experience for Black mothers. This approach contributes to safer hospital...
New data is showing that preventive screening for alcohol use dropped during COVID-19 surges, despite figures showing that alcohol use increased during the pandemic, prompting some experts to...
The one in five adults who have experienced long COVID also have trouble with other aspects of healthcare, with new Urban Institute findings indicating issues with healthcare costs and patient care...
Social determinants of health like educational attainment, poverty, language barriers, and provider workforce shortages are linked to the impact redlining has on clinical outcomes, underscoring how...
Limited patient health literacy is 81 percent more common in racial and ethnic minority patients who are also immigrants, according to new UC Irvine data, shedding new light on how health literacy can...
NYU Langone is taking the next step towards realizing health equity by refining clinical algorithms to remove race-based adjustments and focusing on social determinants of health instead.
This comes...
Varied contraceptive access in the United States, driven by divergent state-level Medicaid coverage, has resulted in significant reproductive health disparities, according to a recent study by Oregon...
Half of adults say they’d get an annual COVID-19 booster shot, not unlike getting their annual flu shot, according to the latest data from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF).
But still, less...
Gender-affirming care offers a great use case for implementing patient-reported outcomes measures (PROMs), but PROMs for gender-affirming care need a bit of a tune-up before that can fully happen, per...
The medical misinformation problem isn’t going away, with around three-quarters of physicians saying inaccurate medical information has made it harder to treat patients and has impacted patient...
Healthcare providers consider a patient’s reported social determinants of health in around 35 percent of healthcare decision-making, according to a report in the Annals of Family Medicine. This...
Getting into civics class might improve community health, with the latest County Health Rankings showing a link between civic engagement and community health.
The rankings, completed by the University...
The American Heart Association (AHA) released an entrepreneurial training program to assist health equity innovators in tackling social determinants of health (SDOH) issues that impact urban and rural...
Retail health clinic access and utilization are on the up and up, as more patients accessed these alternative care sites than other points of care like ambulatory surgical centers and emergency...
A new bill in Georgia aims to improve patient-provider communication about medical errors and patient safety.
The CANDOR (Communication and Optimal Resolution) Act, based on the CANDOR program of the...
The patient portal might be too clunky or onerous to be useful in closing care gaps, with new research finding that patient portal messages didn’t do much to get patients in for preventive...
Patients who face cost-sharing and high out-of-pocket healthcare costs for breast cancer screening might not access any applicable follow-up tests they need, according to research published in JAMA...
