Geography Affects Racial Health Disparities in Cancer Treatment Delays
How long does it take to begin cancer treatment? It may depend on where you live, according to new data showing that geography can compound or mitigate racial disparities in cancer treatment...Unequal Home Healthcare Agency Access Yields Racial Health Disparities
Medicare beneficiaries of color are more likely to use unpaid, informal caregivers, like family caregivers, for their home healthcare than White beneficiaries, a trend researchers from the Commonwealth...Full Nurse Practitioner Scope of Practice Led to Greater Workforce Diversity
New research out of West Virginia University revealed that granting full nurse practitioner (NP) scope of practice can foster greater workforce diversity that reflects the demographic of patient...Few Studies Assess Social Determinants of Health Intervention by Race
Less than a third of studies investigating social determinants of health interventions include race and ethnicity in their analyses, and even fewer stratify intervention outcomes by race, according to...How Built Environment, Neighborhood Fuel Racial Health Disparities
A new study out of the Boston University Center for Antiracist Research is shedding light on the racial disparities in certain social determinants of health, particularly neighborhood and built...Race a Key SDOH Fueling Health Disparities in Cancer Outcomes
New research out of the University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Center and the University of Michigan adds to evidence that race as a social determinant of health (SDOH) is a crucial contributor to worse...Past Incarceration a Key SDOH Causing Chronic Disease in Older Adults
Older patients with a history of incarceration are more likely to develop a chronic disease than those without prior incarceration, according to new research out of the University of California San...Racial Disparities in Patient Portal Use Fueled by Provider Engagement
Black and Hispanic patients are being offered patient portal access at a rate that’s 5 percentage points lower than White people, translating to lower patient portal adoption and access,...Is ACO REACH Model Poised to Bring Health Equity to Value-Based Care?
Medical Home Network (MHN) isn’t new to care coordination. For 14 years, the Chicago-based organization has focused on bringing care coordination into the primary care office, using community health workers to provide...Understanding Education as a Social Determinant of Health
Education is a critical social determinant of health, largely because of its outsized impact on income and therefore other SDOH. There’s some clear-cut evidence underscoring the impact education has on overall health and well-being....Implicit Bias Is Still a Hallmark of Patient Experience
The patient experience is still being impacted by implicit bias, despite industry calls to promote health equity, according to the results of a MITRE-Harris Poll Survey on Patient Experience. Overall,...Is Implicit Bias Behind Racial Disparities in Treatment Recommendation?
Unconscious, implicit bias towards Black patients may be the central factor influencing racial disparities in provider recommendations for certain treatment options, such as the removal of brain...RWJF: How Public Health Sector, CDC Can Focus on Health Equity
The nation’s public health sector is at a crossroads after two years of a pandemic that illuminated infrastructure shortcomings. And amid work to improve efficiency, governance, and clarity,...US Remains Worst in the World for Maternal Mortality, Health Equity
A new Commonwealth Fund brief reports that the United States has maintained a global title it probably doesn’t want: the worst maternal mortality rates in the developed world. The report found...Sponsored Article
