The findings show that adults in states that did not expand Medicaid are at significantly higher risk of being overweight or obese, but these disparities are in part explained by higher rates of demographic and socioeconomic disadvantage in non-expansion states. To the author’s knowledge, this ...
To address these critical questions, we focus on the top 20 most polluted countries in the world—the nations that surpass the threshold level of PM2.5(0–5μg/m3) recommended by the WHO. The selection of the geographical context is underpinned by two compelling rationales: First, the selecte...
teen pregnancy and birth rates are about 33% lower now than fifteen years ago, the birth rate for 15-19 year old females rose 3% between 2005 and 2006, from 40.5 to 41.9 per 1,000 women in this age group the first increase since 1991. Significant racial and ethnic disparities exist in...
Health equity regional symposia: Convening local stakeholders to address health disparities in the US. e13695#Background:Health inequities among underserved populations in the U.S. are complex and derive from unequal access to quality healthcare. Addressing ... AB Moadel,E Price-Haywood,K Bell,...
Confronting the Racist Legacy of the American Child Welfare System: The Case for Abolition Oxford University Press (2023) Google Scholar Dettlaff and Boyd, 2020 A.J. Dettlaff, R. Boyd Racial disproportionality and disparities in the child welfare system: Why do they exist, and what can be done...
In June 2022, the White House published ablueprintfor addressing maternal health disparities, including improving the readiness of hospitals lacking maternity services to provide safe deliveries.7Wider availability of evidence-based midwifery-led care and doulas for low-risk women can prevent and rectify...
“The underlying problem of health care spending is health inequity.”– Pierre Theodore, MD, vice president health disparities, Johnson & Johnson Global Public Health With more attention on the US health system’s inequities, communities, company executives and board members, regulators, investors, ...
Disparities between funding and performance The opportunity to address public health challenges rests with individual states, counties, and cities. In 2018, for example, state and local governments spent nearly seven times more than the federal government on public health activities ($81.5 billion ...
analyzing disparities as they related to each of the four main health categories. Researchers analyzed data from multiple sources, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s WONDER database and Komodo’s Healthcare Map, that allowed them to develop a new approach ...
Here, the authors show that flood exposure during pregnancy correlates with a higher risk of pregnancy loss, particularly for marginalized women, revealing increased health disparities in a changing climate. Cheng He Yixiang Zhu Haidong Kan ArticleOpen Access2 Jan 2024 Nature Communications The ...