Tackling care disparities and social determinants of health calls for policy interventions centered on health equity, economic mobility, access to care, affordable housing, safe learning environments,...
A new coalition of community health centers known as Advocates for Community Health (ACH) recently announced its commitment to impacting federal policy by urging Congress to invest in health...
When Daniel Carrión, PhD, MPH, a researcher from Mount Sinai, thinks of COVID-19 racial health disparities, he thinks of the subway. After all, needing to ride the subway—or work an...
CMS aims to strengthen health equity efforts, improve patient safety, and expand access to care with its calendar year (CY) 2022 Medicare Hospital Outpatient Prospective Payment System (OPPS) and...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has unveiled its 2022 Physician Fee Schedule proposal, and among the changes it is making to certain reimbursement programs, the agency is bringing...
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) is looking to change the paradigm for medical research participation, working toward better participant engagement and diversity by leveraging strong...
A total of 59 percent of adult patients think implicit bias in medicine and discrimination is a problem in the US healthcare industry, and another 49 percent of their doctors agree, according to...
Green space, an increasingly recognized social determinant of health, has been linked to lower racial health disparities related to the novel coronavirus, according to researchers from the University...
People may perceive pain levels in men as more acute than pain levels in women, a finding that could suggest gendered implicit bias in medicine and ultimately affect the type of medical treatment...
Middle Eastern and North African (MENA) people living in southeast Michigan who report unfair treatment are more likely to face social determinants of health, such as food insecurity, that lead to poor...
One in ten Black patients reported feeling discrimination during a healthcare encounter, a rate that is three times that of White people and twice that of Hispanic people. The data, published by Robert...
For Leah Binder, president and CEO of patient safety rankings organization The Leapfrog Group, embedding health equity as part of patient safety is a no-brainer.
“This year, the issue of equity...
As healthcare continues to lean on technological innovations, a new social determinant of health is coming to the forefront: the digital divide.
The digital divide is the chasm between those who have...
A new health equity curriculum at Wake Forest School of Medicine helped improve self-reported knowledge about social determinants of health, a metric school leaders say could prepare new doctors in...
