Social determinants of health like educational attainment, poverty, language barriers, and provider workforce shortages are linked to the impact redlining has on clinical outcomes, underscoring how...
Limited patient health literacy is 81 percent more common in racial and ethnic minority patients who are also immigrants, according to new UC Irvine data, shedding new light on how health literacy can...
NYU Langone is taking the next step towards realizing health equity by refining clinical algorithms to remove race-based adjustments and focusing on social determinants of health instead.
This comes...
Healthcare providers consider a patient’s reported social determinants of health in around 35 percent of healthcare decision-making, according to a report in the Annals of Family Medicine. This...
Getting into civics class might improve community health, with the latest County Health Rankings showing a link between civic engagement and community health.
The rankings, completed by the University...
It’s not enough for healthcare organizations to make a diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) pledge or say they have been doing DEI since before the pandemic. Healthcare organizations need to walk the walk and build out an...
The American Heart Association (AHA) released an entrepreneurial training program to assist health equity innovators in tackling social determinants of health (SDOH) issues that impact urban and rural...
Pregnant individuals with low incomes typically have higher rates of maternal and infant mortality compared to those with higher incomes. However, according to a study out of Michigan Medicine, Black...
It’s broadly accepted that the COVID-19 pandemic was characterized by stark health disparities, with those experiencing the greatest social vulnerability also seeing the worst pandemic outcomes....
Food security is perhaps one of the most commonly discussed social determinants of health, with the medical and public health industries standing poised to address it.
According to Healthy People 2030, food insecurity is “a...
Discrimination is emerging as another social determinant of health, with yet another study connecting the weathering hypothesis to healthcare outcomes. This latest report, published in the journal...
New data from the Urban Institute corroborates the link between food swamps—a caveat to food security—and chronic disease, particularly obesity.
The study specifically showed that areas...
For the folks working on the front lines of health equity, the question of Black maternal health disparities isn’t a new one. But as the public health data outlining inequities continues to mount, more data-driven and community-based...
Social isolation, a key social determinant of health (SDOH) affecting health outcomes, has begun to decline among older adults after three years of pandemic living. However, a survey revealed that one...
The affordable housing crisis might impact patient health, with new data from the UCLA David Geffen School of Medicine showing that moving because rent gets too high is linked to more psychological...
With online grocery retail becoming increasingly popular, a new study has shown that financial incentives and default options can drive healthy behavior change and boost access to fresh foods,...
A new study suggests that structural racism is causing worse surgical outcomes among Black men.
Researchers out of UCLA found in a study recently published in BMJ that historical lack of quality...
More research is adding to the evidence indicating that the weathering hypothesis has some merit, with new data from Boston University showing that experiences with racism have led to racial health...
A new study out of Tulane University confirms what many may have been able to guess about patient access to care: paid sick leave policies increase preventive screening rates because they give patients...
Black women of childbearing age face a twofold risk of uncontrolled high blood pressure compared to their white counterparts, which not only fuels racial health disparities but also heightens the risk...
