Listen up: a new program out of the Johns Hopkins Cochlear Center for Hearing and Public Health shows that community health workers can effectively connect low-income seniors with hearing aids.
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Patient access to mental healthcare is poorer among women, with high costs and limited provider availability stymying the process, according to new figures from the Kaiser Family Foundation.
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The Administration for Community Living (ACL), an agency under the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), has released $125 million in funding to address flu and COVID-19 vaccine access...
Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) are increasingly recognized as influencing pediatric health and well-being into adulthood, as new data in JAMA Network Open signals that organizations that screen...
Americans need more patient education to understand COVID-19 testing options, especially as higher rates of respiratory viruses like COVID-19 pose a risk to patients, according...
The US is experiencing yet another negative byproduct of the COVID-19 pandemic, with new surveying from the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) showing enhanced vaccine hesitancy among parents of...
Half of US patients think hospitals need to up their nursing staff, with concerns about nurse and other staffing shortages dissuading healthcare access for some, according to a survey completed by...
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...
New research out of the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine has found a link between a mental health diagnosis of depression and medication adherence, underscoring the need for better...
By implementing a cross-sector community health program to address a communitywide social determinant of health, Reading Hospital, an Accountable Health Communities (AHC) model grantee, addressed food...
In five years, primary care access might not be defined by walking into a traditional brick-and-mortar clinic—not if consumers have anything to do about it, according to a new report commissioned...
An integrated mobile healthcare program focused on patient transitions from hospital to home was able to improve the likelihood of chronic disease medication adherence for patients with lung and heart...
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,...
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.
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Access to contraceptives via the federal Title X Family Planning program increased the rate at which women graduated with a bachelor’s degree by between 6 and 12 percent, underscoring how...
A new Dutch study is recounting the reasons why some patients don’t access follow-up care or screenings after producing a positive result on at-home colorectal cancer tests, suggesting that...
Offering health coaching to family caregivers might be key to improving patient activation and chronic disease management for patients with diabetes, according to a new study published in JAMA Network...
The Supreme Court’s decision in Hobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health allowing statewide abortion bans has led some clinicians and pharmacists to restrict access to certain drugs that help manage...
As of July 2022, the US has seen only 3.5 percent of kids ages six months to four years get the COVID-19 shots, underscoring deep COVID-19 vaccine hesitancy among parents of young kids. The factors...
The number of Americans with a usual source of care has dropped 10 percent in the last 18 years, with only about three-quarters of people saying they have a regular primary care provider or at least a...
