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- Public Health leaders know that location matters and has a significant impact on an individual's health—and initiatives that have the highest impact focus on localized conditions and speak directly to community needs. Nicole Alexander-Scott (director, Rhode Island Department of Health) and Katie Lamansky (health program manager, Idaho Department of Health and Welfare) discuss why place-based…December 2021Social/Structural Determinants
- The COVID-19 pandemic shined a light on the inequities of the healthcare system that exist for people with intellectual and/or developmental disabilities. For many people with IDD and caregivers, receiving care in a hospital setting has always been a challenging experience. We know that training in this area is lacking. Education and experiential learning for healthcare professionals is essential…December 2021Policy and Practice
- Philanthropic partnerships are having their day in the sun. Their impact could be even greater with a clearer path to investing in collaborative funds and a shift in donor mindsets. Over the past decade, philanthropic collaboration has entered a new era of popularity and ambition. Driven by institutional and high-net-worth funders seeking greater impact by acting collectively and by fund…December 2021Services & Programs
- Women’s Health Research at Yale is changing science to address the health needs of women and improve outcomes for everyone. Recent work funded by The Community Foundation is developing heart disease treatment that accurately responds to the biology and experiences of women. (author abstract)December 2021Heart disease
- Health disparities in breast cancer are complex and pervasive across the spectrum of the patient journey and range from unequal access to cancer screening and tools for cancer prevention, such as genetic testing, to racial differences in cancer survivorship. Compared with non-Hispanic White women, racial and ethnic minorities are more likely to be diagnosed with later stage cancer and more…December 2021Cancer
- Addressing the differential impact of environmental factors – including climate – on some individuals and communities is increasingly being recognized as a health equity issue. As hospitals and health systems become more intentional in their development and implementation of integrated strategies to advance health equity, how do existing sustainability strategies evolve to apply an equity lens?…December 2021Physical Environment, Social Environment
- A recent survey of large US employers found women of color and LGBTQ+ employees have the highest share of unmet basic needs. Employers may consider expanding the range of benefits offered. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarMay2023December 2021Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Social/Structural Determinants
- Intersectionality is a theoretical framework that was developed to address the ways in which people's experiences are shaped based on their intersecting social identities (e. g., race/ethnicity, gender, class, age, etc.). This approach focuses on the importance of considering power, privilege, and social structures in relation to people's access to resources, experiences of discrimination, and…December 2021Social/Structural Determinants
- In this episode of the AMA STEPS Forward® podcast, Marie Brown, MD, AMA director of practice redesign, talks with Kavita Bhavan, MD, chief innovation officer at Parkland Health and Hospital System in Dallas, Texas, about how targeted health equity work helped build community trust and led to the establishment of Annie’s Place, a free childcare center for children of patients. (author abstract)December 2021Policy and Practice
- We are a community-based non-profit that advocates for our community to address health disparities and social inequities. (website description)December 2021Social/Structural Determinants
- This document is structured to provide a brief overview of the collective Lived Experience workforce and Lived Experience work, followed by the essentials of position descriptions that authentically represent Lived Experience practice. A detailed guide to Lived Experience roles and position description development is provided, along with examples and practical considerations from Lived Experience…December 2021Mental/Behavioral Health, Policy and Practice
- The United States has the worst maternal health outcomes among high-income nations – despite spending $111 billion yearly on maternal and infant care. People of color, particularly Black and Indigenous birthing people† and parents, bear the brunt of this fundamental failing. Today, there is more recognition than ever of the influence of structural forces on maternal and infant health and a…December 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus, Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Advocacy
- In this research note, I estimate one component of the mortality impact of denying all wanted induced abortions in the United States. This estimate quantifies the magnitude of an increase in pregnancy-related deaths that would occur solely because of the greater mortality risk of continuing a pregnancy rather than having a legal induced abortion. Using published statistics on pregnancy-related…December 2021Maternal Morbidity and Mortality, Abortion Access
- Social and racial injustice and inequity plagued America long before the deep roots of systemic racism were underscored during the COVID-19 pandemic and the deployment of a vaccine to prevent it. Systemic racism is not something that a few people or institutions choose to practice. Rather, it has been a component of the social, economic, and political systems in which we all exist, and it is a…November 2021Systemic Determinants
- To effectively support asthma self-management among children most at risk for poor outcomes, it is important to examine potential disparities in parents' asthma-related knowledge. This study draws on baseline data collected from a randomized controlled trial to analyze how knowledge of asthma self-management varies by sociodemographic characteristics in a racially and economically diverse sample…November 2021Asthma, Adolescent Health, Education
- Medical disinformation has interfered with healthcare workers' ability to communicate with the general population in a wide variety of public health contexts globally. This has limited the effectiveness of evidence‐based medicine and healthcare capacity. Disinformation campaigns often try to integrate or co‐opt healthcare workers in their practices which hinders effective health communication. We…November 2021Advocacy
- The field of health informatics is defined as “the science of how to use data, information, and knowledge to improve human health and the delivery of health care services.” Health information technology—a vital part of informatics—refers specifically to electronic systems that are used to collect, store, share, and analyze health information. Some common examples of health information technology…November 2021Social Environment
- A growing body of research has identified health disparities among transgender and gender nonconforming (TGNC) adults in the United States, including substantial disparities in mental health, compared with their cisgender (heterosexual and sexual minority) counterparts. Differences in mental health may be influenced by the high levels of stress associated with being members of a marginalized…November 2021Mental/Behavioral Health
- Importance Severe maternal morbidity (SMM) is a major risk factor for maternal mortality, yet little is known about geographic variation in SMM or factors associated with geographical variation at the local level. Municipal governments incur substantial expenditures providing services that are an essential part of residents’ lives, but associations between municipal expenditures and…November 2021Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- When the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) global pandemic first began, there was a great deal of confusion among health care professionals, government officials, and those simply going about their daily routines (1). Indeed, physicians were unaware initially of the severity of the novel constellation of systemic and respiratory symptoms being appreciated in numerous patients. Similarly,…November 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus
- Health disparities disproportionately affect minority cultural groups (e.g., Indigenous, immigrant, refugee) worldwide; enduring across time, disease states, and risk factors despite co-occurring advancements in health and medicine. Fundamental cause theory holds that important social factors (e.g., socioeconomic status, stigma, racism) produce health disparities by restricting equitable access…November 2021Social/Structural Determinants
- What do injury prevention, youth and domestic violence prevention and health equity efforts have in common? They are examples of the "curb-cut effect," solutions designed to serve the most vulnerable but which lead to large-scale benefits, says Michael Rodriguez, MD, MPH, professor and vice chair in the Department of Family Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA.…November 2021Domestic Violence
- Hate crimes against Asian American/Pacific Islanders (AAPIs) have surged in the United States during the COVID-19 pandemic to alarming new levels. We analyzed data from the Healthy Minds Study, and found that COVID-19 related racial/ethnic discrimination was associated with greater odds of having depression, anxiety, non-suicidal self-injury, binge drinking, and suicidal ideation among AAPI…November 2021Mental/Behavioral Health, Racism
- Background: As part of a Domestic Violence and Health care Partnership (DVHCP) project in California, 19 leadership teams consisting of representatives from domestic violence agencies and health care delivery systems in California came together to improve care related to intimate partner violence (IPV). We evaluated the impact of a Quality Assessment/Quality Improvement (QA/QI) tool on…November 2021Domestic Violence
- Background: Lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people present poorer mental and physical health results compared to the heterosexual and cisgender population. There are barriers in the healthcare system that increase these health inequities.Objective: To synthesise the available evidence on how nurses can intervene in reducing health inequities in LGBT people, identifying their…November 2021Chronic Disease, Mental/Behavioral Health, Health Reform, Social/Structural Determinants
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