These 25 places excel in areas like health insurance access and hospital bed availability in the 2024 Healthiest Communities analysis.
The article reports on recommendations from the American College of Physicians concerning medical care in the United States that were included in a paper which the college released. In the report the college recommended that the U.S. develop a healthcare system that provides medical care for all...
Access to Medical Care Lesson Summary Frequently Asked Questions What is the quality of healthcare in the United States? The quality of healthcare in the United States varies across different dimensions, including structure, process, and outcomes. It can be characterized as having variations in qu...
Intersection of living in a rural versus urban area and race/ethnicity in explaining access to health care in the United States. Am J Public Health. 2016;106(8):1463-1469. doi:10.2105/AJPH.2016.303212PubMedGoogle ScholarCrossref 12. von Elm E, Altman DG, Egger M, Pocock...
Improving Access to Health Care for the Uninsured essaysFor decades, the American system of health care has relied primarily on employer-sponsored insurance programs as a gateway through which an individual
Transgender women (TW) in the United States (US) experience critical barriers to healthcare and significant health inequities due to their minoritized status. These inequities include lower rates of insurance coverage, and a disproportionate prevalence of HIV, depression, anxiety, lifetime suicide atte...
In the United States, lesbian, gay, and bisexual persons (LGBPs) of color may experience great difficulty obtaining high quality health care and/or health-related interventions. Issues surrounding access to health care may explain the disproportionate numbers of LGB ethnic minorities experiencing poor ...
1 Many racial and ethnic minorities and people living in rural, underserved communities or low-income households do not have equal access to high-quality healthcare in the United States; as a consequence, they often experience worse health outcomes, according t...
#1 in Health Care Access #34 in Best States Overall #1 in Health Care Hawaii is the most recent addition to the United States, becoming a state on Aug. 21, 1959. The state, comprised of eight islands, is known as a tourism paradise, and as the site of a Japanese attack in 1941 tha...
For decades, health care in the urban United States has been a study in contrasts. Hospitals in many U.S. cities are renowned for providing the best quality of care in the world. The term centers of excellence has come to represent mostly urbanbased academic medical centers and other facilit...