When most people think of treatment for a medical condition, medication, surgery, physical therapy, and other modes of ...

The quality of care can vary vastly between two clinics only 20 miles apart. Adrienne Bryant learned this the hard way after ...

Xin Hu, PhD, MSPH, hypothesizes that these telemental health disparities could be driven by language barriers, historical mistrust, and systemic challenges. Despite the 12-fold relative increase in ...

No one can deny that health inequities are a global issue. The United States, despite decades of progress, has one of the highest rates of health disparities in the world. Our health care system is ...

Anne N. Sosin ([email protected]), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song, Dartmouth College. Health equity efforts in rural places have grown in recent years; however, ...

Barbara Slagel, DHA, a recent Health Administration doctoral graduate, analyzed health disparities research during the COVID-19 pandemic. During the pandemic, minority groups were disproportionally ...

In this study we examined potential socioeconomic disparities in all-cause mortality and changes in inpatient utilization during the pandemic in Germany, a high-income country with a universal health ...

Lately, the concepts of diversity, equity, and inclusion have become a topic of debate and controversy. In healthcare organizations, however, there is one undeniable truth that transcends all ...

According to the United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), racism can lead to massive disparities in various systems, such as inequity within interconnected political, economic ...

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