Health inequity is not a concept that everyone is familiar with, but it is an issue that employers need to address. To understand the inequity part, let's first look at what health equity is. The CDC ...

In this study we identified groupings of US states with similar laws related to structural racism, and we assessed associations with premature mortality rates overall and among non-Hispanic Black and ...

Suggested Citation: "9 Conclusion." National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2017. Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity. Washington, DC: The National Academies Press. doi ...

It’s time for healthcare organizations to label health inequities as “never events” and abandon the idea that eliminating them is a “journey” or “marathon,” Maulik Joshi, DrPH, president and CEO of ...

The Jacobs School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences hosted a moderated panel discussion Feb. 23 designed to foster thoughtful, solution-oriented dialogue around health inequities affecting ...

Jamila Michener ([email protected]), Cornell University, Ithaca, New York. This article examines how racially and economically marginalized tenants built political power in response to ...

We have just celebrated Martin Luther King's birthday. I think he was among the greatest of all Americans. In 1966, he spoke about injustice in health care and called it the most shocking and inhuman ...

An international collaborative led by The University of Manchester and the University of Leicester has published a new paper that outlines how to reduce COVID-19 health inequity among ethnic minority ...

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