According to a JAMA Internal Medicine study, staff members’ implicit bias about minority groups was linked to variability in end-of-life care delivered to Black patients with dementia, limiting...
Federally qualified health centers continue to prove pivotal at supporting health equity, with the latest data from the Boston University School of Public Health showing FQHCs were disproportionately...
Individuals with a higher level of education were found to have better cardiovascular health (CVH). Still, the benefits of education do not persist across non-White racial and ethnic groups, according...
Medical schools across the country are playing a long game, increasingly investing in recruiting students of color with the intent of creating a medical workforce that better reflects the nation’s diversity and, ultimately, promoting...
Black women born in the US have a higher odds of preeclampsia than Black women who immigrated from other countries, according to new data from Johns Hopkins Medicine, indicating that other social...
Nearly a third of physicians admit they don’t have a great understanding of their legal responsibilities under the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA), leaving them liable to both legal...
As the healthcare industry faces calls to address racism in medicine, the nation’s medical schools are answering, setting forward revamped plans for diversity, equity, and inclusion and health equity curricula.
That is, after all,...
According to an athenahealth study, data demonstrated that patients in low-income zip codes were less likely than patients in high-income zip codes to schedule an annual wellness visit indicating that...
Researchers from the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine received a $10 million grant that will help fund a study to investigate how environmental and economical interventions impact racial...
As the medical industry begins to appreciate the diversity of the patient populations it serves—and how that diversity influences care management and outcomes—clinicians now face an...
Despite coming to an end in the 1960s, institutionally racist policies like redlining still rears its ugly head, manifesting itself in poor health outcomes and Black maternal health disparities in...
A year after making its health equity pledge, Providence is excited about the work it’s done to reduce racial health disparities. Although far from complete, the organization is celebrating its...
It’s easy for health equity work to devolve into a bit of analysis paralysis, leaving even the best-intentioned people stuck questioning how to progress forward, according to Kulleni Gebreyes,...
People living in states lifting eviction moratoria face an increased risk for COVID0-19 12 weeks after the ban’s end, a trend researchers said could worsen COVID-19 health disparities.
The data,...
Older adults living in low-income or otherwise disadvantaged neighborhoods become disabled about two years before those living in more affluent areas, underscoring how neighborhood—and its link...
The National Quality Forum (NQF) wants to make it easier to improve health equity, and that starts with an effort to embed equity into clinical quality measures across the care continuum.
The...
Improving patient primary care access may be as simple as connecting that patient with a provider who speaks the same language as them, helping to build stronger patient-provider relationships, instill...
Racial discrimination and implicit bias in medicine is affecting Black and Hispanic patients at rates three- and two-times more often than White people, and it’s coming to serve as a serious care...
Healthcare organizations working to build out community health partnerships to boost health equity and address social determinants of health need to ensure they are on the same page as those with whom...
The United States ranked last in The Commonwealth Fund’s reported measurements of health equity, access to care, administrative efficiency, and healthcare outcomes compared to ten other wealthy...
