The social determinants of health explain about half of the racial health disparities in life expectancy in the United States, emphasizing the nation’s need to address social risk factors,...
Pre-exposure prophylaxis (PrEP) access has increased over the years, but stark racial health disparities presented at the 24th International AIDS Conference yield concern that the HIV...
Gary Butts, MD, remembers a time when it would’ve been uncomfortable or even risky to mention race in a hospital. Now the chief diversity and inclusion officer for the Mount Sinai Health System, Butts said his organization’s...
A new guidebook drafted by experts convened by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) has set forward to provide actionable recommendations for how healthcare organizations can address health...
The legacy of redlining has led to present-day neighborhood health disparities, according to a study published in the Journal of the American College of Cardiology, which noted that residents in...
Fewer than 2 percent of the nearly 3,600 hospitals included in this year’s Lown Institute Hospital Index for Social Responsibility ranked among the best for health equity, value, and outcomes,...
Neighborhood is yet another in a long list of social determinants of health garnering industry attention. Neighborhood is an expansive social determinant of health that ultimately intersects with numerous other social factors, making it a...
Landmark civil rights legislation that instituted Medicare and Medicaid was instrumental in closing racial health disparities in care utilization, according to new data in JAMA Network Open. But those...
Disproportionate geographic barriers to cancer care access beleaguer Native Americans, a study led by Washington State University researchers has found.
The study, published in the journal Value...
New research conducted by Cedars-Sinai shows disparities in access to cancer care for racial and ethnic minorities diagnosed with advanced liver cancer, as they did not receive early access to the...
Between 1978 and 2018, the amount of time patients spend each year with an outpatient physician has increased by around 20 minutes, but data still reveal troubling findings of racial disparities in...
Women, as well as Black and Hispanic populations, have faced longstanding health disparities in patient access to opioid treatments like buprenorphine, a Mayo Clinic study published in JAMA Network...
The COVID-19 pandemic caused a significant decrease in preventive care access, with the impact on cancer screening being especially notable as millions of patients missed their care, according to a...
In the healthcare industry’s effort to support health equity, another principle has come to the forefront: trauma-informed care.
Trauma-informed care is important for achieving health equity because it helps traditionally...
The establishment of subsidized supermarkets trimmed obesity risk among low-income children residing near those supermarkets, researchers at NYU Langone Health found, shining a light on how access to...
Women and Black patients with chest pain experienced longer emergency department wait times than their White, male counterparts, new data shows, shining a light on disparities in timely patient access...
Hypertension during pregnancy is a growing problem in the United States, with Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AI/AN) pregnant people being the most at-risk for hypertension, according to...
Income is a leading social determinant of health impacting wellness, but a living wage is far out-of-reach in nearly every county in the United States, according to the 2022 County Health...
Northwell Health, New York’s largest health system, has announced the launch of its Center for Maternal Health to address the rising maternal mortality rate and troubling Black maternal health...
There is a growing racial and economic divide in the receipt of patient-centered care, with minority and low-income patients having their care preferences taken into account less frequently than White...
