the current state of insulin cost-sharing cap laws and utilization among children and adolescents with type 1 diabetes, with a focus on the limitations of current insulin laws, the importance of measuring health outcomes for children who utilize such programs, and the impact on health equity. We...
Moderator: Jean L. Raphael, M.D., Section Head, Academic General Pediatrics; Associate Professor of Pediatrics; Associate Vice Chair for Community Health, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital CONVERSATION ...
Health equity means that everyone has a fair opportunity to be as healthy as possible. Healthy People 2030 defines health disparity as “a particular is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage”. Health disparities adversely affect people who have experienced greater obs...
Integrating the principles and practice of child health equity-children's rights, social justice, human capital investment, and health equity ethics-into pediatrics will address the root causes of child health disparities. Promoting the principles and practice of equity-based clinical care, child ...
The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted longstanding health and social inequities in healthcare and raised the urgent question of how health equity can be achieved.
The health and well-being of children and adolescents face significant challenges, particularly in times of social instability. In response to these challenges, the Norwegian government allocated funding in 2021 to establish a national center for Child and Adolescent Health Promotion Services. Situated ...
Best Buy Health, Boston Children’s Hospital, Alphabet, Microsoft, Validi, and others have joined the Health Equity and Access Leadership (HEAL) Coalition to mitigate health disparities through technology.Empower community pullUnfairness impedes good health; it’s unrealistic to expect tha...
Linking child survival and child development for health, equity, and sustainable development.The author discusses the global community's obligation to ensure that all children grow and develop to full capacity. The foundations for healthy child development are addressed, which include good caregiving ...
said an important aspect of the studies was that they showed that vulnerable people often suffered the worst effects, for example people of colour and those on low incomes who did not have air conditioning or lived in areas with higher air pollution. “This is absolutely a health equity and ...
Ensuring equity in health is a very important determinant of any public health policy. The aim of this paper is to establish the degree of realization of the right to health care from the aspect of equity in health and to establish the degree of realization of these rights in relation to ...