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,...
It’ll take more than improving patient access to health IT to close the digital divide, according to a new assessment from the VA’s Office of Inspector General.
The OIG report found that a...
Inflation is creating healthcare affordability problems, with more people of color than White folks saying the rising cost of healthcare is limiting patient care access, according to recent polling...
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...
Health barriers driven by social determinants of health (SDOH) have worsened chronic disease management for patients dealing with hypertension, a Mayo Clinic Proceedings study concluded.
Hypertension...
Twenty-four medical schools throughout the nation will revamp their education curricula, creating programs incorporating diversity, health equity, and inclusion into training, according to a press...
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...
Food insecurity, a serious social determinant of health, can create a cycle of health inequity that puts patients at a greater risk for health-related missed workdays and overnight hospitalization,...
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...
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...
The shadows of historic racist policies such as redlining continue to impact present-day health outcomes, leaving Black people to bear the burden of health inequities, according to a recent analysis by...
Much has been made of the potential for community-based health to close racial health disparities, but new research in JAMA Network Open says those community programs are most effective when they are...
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...
When a food security program in Dorchester, one of the boroughs of Boston, started offering up English muffins, it quickly became apparent those subsidized meals wouldn’t be fruitful. What was...
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...
It was 2016, and the leadership at burgeoning rideshare company Lyft was alerted to several tripped fraud wires. What looked like fraudulent ride requests coming out of Utah for trips in New York turned out to be a medical transportation...
In a new assessment of reproductive and abortion care access, researchers have found that long travel distance is a leading barrier to care.
The study, published in JAMA Network Open by researchers...
Increasingly, healthcare organizations are starting to design social determinants of health screening processes.
Coming as a response to value-based care trends, social determinants of health screenings help clinicians and organization...
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...
