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...
CVS Health has partnered with Uber Health, the rideshare company's healthcare arm, to provide individuals in underserved communities free transportation when seeking access to medical...
According to researchers from the University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston, underserved populations were the most likely to have an overdue cervical cancer screening, underscoring social...
The Pharmacy Quality Alliance (PQA) has issued a new resource guide to help pharmacists navigate certain social determinants of health that might crop up when a patient visits the...
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...
More states across the country are enabling full practice authority for advanced practice registered nurses (APRNs), according to new data in The Nurse Practitioner, which nursing leaders have...
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...
Legacy Community Health announced Houston Methodist, a leading health system in Texas, donated $50 million to expand access to healthcare services by building community health centers for...
Limited English proficiency is linked with a lower rate of patient-reported cardiovascular disease, health disparities that researchers said in JAMA Network Open is either due to low patient education...
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...
According to an American Heart Association study, patients who live within socially vulnerable neighborhoods have a higher likelihood of high complications from COVID-19 infections, offering...
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...
Rideshare companies, like Uber and Lyft, are good additions to the non-emergency medical transportation (NEMT) ecosystem, researchers from the RAND Corporation wrote in a recent report, and are...
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...
Clocking in at around $150,000 in a single state annually, recidivism is a costly problem for the American taxpayer, and yet one of the most poignant examples of where concerted care coordination and...
Many healthcare workers experience social determinants of health, with new data published in Health Affairs particularly outlining disparities in food insecurity between healthcare support staff and...
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,...
