A community-based health program at The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center targeting both expectant and new mothers has significantly reduced infant mortality rates, according to a new study...
There is a considerable human and healthcare cost that could have been avoided at the onset of COVID-19 had more been done to ameliorate eventual racial health disparities, amounting to thousands of...
Twenty-one percent of patients said their healthcare experiences have been marked by some sort of discrimination, with just about three-quarters of those discriminatory experiences having something to...
2020 has been defined by more than just COVID-19. For many, it’s been a year of uncomfortable truths, of acknowledgment and unlearning of implicit biases. In healthcare, 2020 has pushed providers to ask themselves tough questions,...
Racial health disparities have only gotten worse in the past twenty years, new data shows, despite Congressional and research efforts to better understand and mitigate disparities.
The study,...
Healthcare organizations with cultures of inclusivity and that focus on delivering care to traditionally marginalized populations may be well-positioned to circumvent care access or utilization issues...
Patient experience scores tend to be at their highest when patients visit a physician who is the same race as they are, underscoring one way race plays a factor in patient experience, according to...
The social determinants of health garnered a lot of attention once it became evident they can impact value-based care success.
As healthcare providers worked to promote overall health and wellness and...
“First do no harm.” That is the basis of all US medicine, and yet for certain populations, it’s not always true. Case in point: Black maternal health disparities. Black, American Indian, and Alaska Native mothers are two-...
Health disparities and health equity are two phrases that have often been used interchangeably to refer to the fact that some populations are able to achieve health and wellness more easily than...
Improving primary care access and quality for women will require an allover approach to providing sex-specific, sex-aware, and gender-sensitive care that is coordinated across a woman’s lifetime,...
When COVID-19 first came ashore in the United States, it quickly became apparent that the virus would bring to light racial health disparities that have long pervaded the healthcare industry.
It...
Nearly half of lower- and middle-income adults struggle to pay their dental and healthcare bills, underscoring latent issues with health equity in this country, according to a report from the Robert...
