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Section: Disparities
Disparities
Minority Health Disparities Affect Access, Management
Minority health disparities continue to impact several quality metrics, including care access, provider communication, chronic disease management, and mental health treatment, according to a new CMS report. CMS stated that in order to address care disparities, it is necessary to understand where these gaps exist. “Assessing equitability in the delivery of care requires making comparisons of […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Groups Blast Plan for Short-Term Insurance
Democrats and healthcare groups are attacking the Trump administration’s latest healthcare plan as an attempt to undermine the core protections of Obamacare and increase costs for sicker Americans. The Trump administration’s new plan would expand the use of short-term, limited-duration health insurance plans for people who have a lapse in coverage. Currently, if a person […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Black Mamas Matter Highlights Disparities
Black mothers die of issues related to pregnancy or birth at more than three and a half times the rate of white women in New Jersey. The reasons go beyond the usual barriers to healthcare, insurance, or economic support, and also involve the physical stress of experiencing racism on a daily basis. That was the […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Senators Say Trump Censored LGBT Health Sites
Democratic Senators called out the White House for removing LGBT health information from government websites, including from the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Office of Women’s Health in a letter sent April 12. “You have repeatedly broken your campaign promises to support and protect the LGBT community, and this latest assault could compromise the health […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Researchers Seek Marker for Diseases in Diverse Populations
In the emerging world of personalized medicine, researchers are furiously looking for disease markers specific to minority populations, and they have already made some promising discoveries. The clues they are gathering, the scientists said, could lead to improved diagnosis and treatment of chronic diseases, such as asthma and heart disease, that disproportionately affect minorities, as […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
Report: Harvard Med School Gets a B- for Diversity
White Coats for Black Lives, a group that advocates for racial equality in medicine, gave Harvard Medical School a B- in its first-ever “racial justice” report card, released Wednesday. The report card is meant to evaluate how well medical schools around the country—including Harvard’s—foster racial equality. In rationalizing Harvard’s grade, the organization pointed to minority […]
April 30, 2018
Disparities
New Alzheimer’s Research Could Lead to Earlier Diagnosis
A new definition of Alzheimer’s disease could help more people be diagnosed earlier. Doctors have proposed basing the diagnosis on signs such as brain changes, rather than symptoms such as memory loss. Currently, health care providers test for the disease indirectly by looking at a person’s medical history and running basic lab work and scans. Recently published […]
April 25, 2018
Disparities
Conference Will Address Black Disparities
Improving health outcomes in the African American Community, that’s the goal of a first-of-its-kind conference next Saturday at U-B’s Medical School. The goal is to find solutions for some of the issues affecting our health, including housing, education, and employment. Experts from all over the country will be in town to start drafting community solutions […]
April 25, 2018
Disparities
Black Moms, Black Babies at High Risk
From grassroots organizations working directly with moms to large insurers, health advocates remain increasingly concerned that black mothers and babies continue to die at higher rates than white mothers and babies. “We know black moms and black babies die more often than other folks,” said Toni Hill, founding director of the Northeast Mississippi Birthing Project, […]
April 25, 2018
Disparities
U.S. Spending on Medicines Rose Less Than 1% Last Year
Amid national turmoil over rising drug costs, a new report finds that spending on prescription medicines in the U.S. last year grew a modest 0.6 percent, to $324 billion, after accounting for rebates and discounts that are paid by drug makers. And real net per-capita spending fell by 2.2 percent, when adjusted for those allowances, […]
April 25, 2018
Disparities
Lower Blood Pressure Guidelines Carry Risks, Say Experts
A new report in JAMA Internal Medicine by University of Sydney and Bond University scholars weighs the risks and benefits of a recent change to blood pressure guidelines in the US. The recent recommendations from American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association are as follows: – lowering the threshold for diagnosing hypertension in adults from […]
April 23, 2018
Disparities
Transgender Youth Diagnosed More Often as Mentally Ill
We know that transgender and gender non-conforming people are at an increased risk of many things, including discrimination and violence. And the same is true for transgender and gender non-conforming young people. Past research has shown that this bias can lead to higher rates of mental illness among transgender students compared to their cisgender peers. A new Kaiser Permanente study takes […]
April 23, 2018
Disparities
As Opioid Deaths Spike, Minority Faith Leaders Issue Call to Action
The Rev. L.C. Ray admittedly knew little of the region’s opioid crisis before his WNC Baptist Fellowship Church congregation asked him last year how they could raise awareness about of an epidemic killing an average of four people a day in North Carolina. The Rev. L.C. Ray admittedly knew little of the region’s opioid crisis before his WNC Baptist Fellowship Church congregation asked him […]
April 23, 2018
Disparities
Some Regions Lag in Preparedness
An annual assessment of the nation’s day-to-day readiness for managing health emergencies improved significantly over the past five years, though deep regional differences remain. The Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF) released the 2018 National Health Security Preparedness Index, which found the United States scored a 7.1 on a 10-point scale for preparedness—nearly a 3 percent […]
April 23, 2018
Disparities
Dr. Keith C. Ferdinand: Eliminating Cardiac Disparities
Keith C. Ferdinand, MD, professor of medicine at Tulane University School of Medicine, Tulane Heart and Vascular Institute in New Orleans. He focuses largely on cardiac risk factor evaluation and control, especially hypertension and hyperlipidemia, including communities of racial and ethnic minorities. I move medicine by a combination of direct patient care and teaching the […]
April 23, 2018
Disparities
Med Center’s Approach Improves Blood Pressure Results for Blacks, Hispanics
Serving a population made up largely of African-American and Hispanic patients, a Miami primary care and multispecialty group saw the same racial and ethnic health disparities in hypertension that are rampant in the American population at large. But the team at Doctor’s Medical Center (DMC) was able to secure a 16 percent improvement in its […]
April 23, 2018
Disparities
Doctors Call for Action on Social Determinants
The American College of Physicians (ACP) released a set of 9 recommendations today meant to address social determinants of health (SDOH) in order to improve patient care and health outcomes that are negatively impacted by the conditions in the United States under which patients live, grow, and work.1 However, in an accompanying editorial, 2 physicians wrote […]
April 18, 2018
Disparities
Pow-Wow Connects Community to Health Providers
Speaking over the sound of powwow drums, UW-Madison pharmacy student Kym Ludwig compared the sugar contents in different energy drinks and helped administer free diabetes risk tests to Wunk Sheek Spring Powwow guests at an informational booth tucked between indigenous food vendors and stalls selling beaded jewelry. Ludwig, who is also a member of the Native […]
April 18, 2018
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