KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

But she speaks little English, and the boys lacked health insurance. They’re all paired with community health workers in Huron, a city of 14,000 people known for being home to the state fair and what’s billed as the world’s largest pheasant sculpture. Community health worker programs are spreading across the U.S.,

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HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

But she speaks little English, and the boys lacked health insurance. They’re all paired with community health workers in Huron, a city of 14,000 people known for being home to the state fair and what’s billed as the world’s largest pheasant sculpture. The programs are often based at hospital systems or community health centers.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

NOVEMBER 7, 2024

Reporting on alcohol use and alcohol use disorder: Data, disparities, and responsible journalism Moderator: Naseem Miller , senior health editor, The Journalist’s Resource Jordan Gass-Pooré , podcast producer and investigative journalist Nasim Maleki, Ph.D. Maleki also noted the racial, ethnic and regional disparities of the harms of alcohol.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 18, 2024

Marisa Donnellys community public health forecast in your inbox a day early. Last month, the March of Dimes released its annual report on maternal and infant health in the United States. And its not just the health of the babies scoring low. Maternal mortality is a public health crisis.

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HEALTHBEAT

AUGUST 15, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. But preliminary 2023 data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention suggest that those upward trends continued last year, and that Latino New Yorkers outpaced other racial and ethnic groups in HIV diagnoses for the first time in a decade.

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News Medical Health Sciences

APRIL 29, 2025

From 2010 to 2020, breast cancer deaths among women ages 20-49 declined significantly across all breast cancer subtypes and racial/ethnic groups, with marked declines starting after 2016, according to an analysis of data from the Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER) registry presented at the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) (..)

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Fund for Public Health NYC

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Moreover, non-Hispanic Black women have the highest mortality rate and face higher rates of late-stage diagnosis and premature mortality when compared to women in other racial/ethnic groups. Addressing these inequities is a priority for the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene’s Cancer Prevention and Control Program.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

JANUARY 28, 2025

The NYC Health Department has released a new strategy to address the root causes of chronic diseases, which are the leading causes of death for New Yorkers. This comprehensive report, part of the HealthyNYC initiative, outlines a plan to reduce health inequities and promote healthier lives for all.

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Black Health Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) remains a significant public health challenge, disproportionately affecting the Black community. The Office of Minority Health has highlighted the following statistics: African Americans represent nearly 13% of the United States population but made up more than 42% of HIV cases in 2019.

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Better Health For All

OCTOBER 10, 2024

When the MBRACE-UK report for 2019-2021 was published showing a four-fold increase in risk of mortality for pregnant people from Black ethnic groups [1] , the medical establishment reacted promptly and with horror to investigate and tackle this statistic. It’s not just birthing parents who are at risk either.

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Mercola

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

High blood pressure is a health concern that middle-aged adults and the elderly usually contend with, however, new research suggests that this silent killer is now affecting the lives of American children at an alarming rate. These include "low education, low income, no health insurance, food insecurity and no or limited employment."

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Years NEW YORK – New York City Mayor Eric Adams and New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene (DOHMH) Commissioner Dr. Ashwin Vasan today unveiled “ HealthyNYC , ” an ambitious plan to improve and extend the average lifespan of all New Yorkers. Read “ Using Law to Advance Population Health Planning ” in Health Affairs.

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Exploring Health

JANUARY 14, 2025

She was an epidemiologist at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention with a focus on how racial inequality, trauma, and violence result in poor health. This disparity is not rooted in biological differences, says the Journal of Women’s Health , but instead in racial biases within Americas healthcare system.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 1, 2021

This can then lead to the development of interventions to improve, not only our lifespan but importantly our health-span, towards a future of healthy aging. The malleability of our health trajectory has led me to better understand the mechanisms of aging and longevity from a life course and personalized perspective.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

The Big Cities Health Coalition (BCHC), representing the leaders of health departments serving nearly 61 million Americans, calls on the incoming Administration and Congress to enhance support for local public health systems.

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HEALTHBEAT

MARCH 18, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free Atlanta newsletter here. Disruptions to funding streams from the National Institutes of Health arent just rattling university researchers. These are small businesses that use a tiny portion of the NIHs budget to bridge the gap between research and consumers.

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Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 11, 2025

For journalists covering rural health disparities, the Medicaid cliff and the promises (and pitfalls) of telehealth, these findings demand a closer look at who’s really benefiting from the telehealth boom, and why. lower in the third quarter of 2023 than in the second quarter of 2020. Telehealth volumes were 54.7%

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Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 19, 2024

If the credits end, 4 million Americans could lose their ACA health insurance and 7.2 Also, hospitals, physicians and other professionals who deliver health care could see a rise in uncompensated care. million enrolled in 2020, according to this Health Affairs article.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 4, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. New HIV diagnoses ticked slightly upward in New York City in 2023, but the estimated number of new infections fell, suggesting possible progress in HIV testing efforts, city health officials said Wednesday.

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The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has provided important lessons regarding the structure and delivery of health care in the United States, and one of the most significant takeaways has been the need to shift to value-based models of care. That figure rose to nearly 20% in 2020 during the pandemic.

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KFF Health News

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Exposure to PFAS, a group of thousands of compounds, has been linked to health problems including cancer, decreased response to vaccines, and low birth weight, according to a federally funded report by the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. “Spread the poop somewhere else, away from us.”

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 11, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free national newsletter here. Valle worries that eating food from her farm and drinking the water, found also to contain arsenic, are to blame for health issues shes experienced recently. Escaping city life and growing her own food was a dream come true for the 52-year-old.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. But Brown called them “lucky,” with enough health insurance or money to see a doctor. KINGSTREE, S.C. — Louvenia McKinney, 77, arrived complaining about shortness of breath. ” The U.S.

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 28, 2024

One morning in late April, a small brick health clinic along the Thurgood Marshall Highway bustled with patients. But Brown called them “lucky,” with enough health insurance or money to see a doctor. There was Joshua McCray, 69, a public bus driver who, four years after catching Covid-19, still is too weak to drive.

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HEALTHBEAT

JANUARY 28, 2025

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeats free New York City newsletter here. Michelle Morse , acting commissioner of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene, said in an interview. In one year, New Yorkers life expectancy fell to 78 years in 2020, from 82.6 years in 2019.

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HEALTHBEAT

DECEMBER 2, 2024

Public health, explained: Sign up to receive Healthbeat’s free New York City newsletter here. As 2025 approaches, the New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene faces a slew of daunting public health challenges. Advancing health equity has been a throughline in Morse’s varied and accomplished career.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

MARCH 8, 2025

March 8, 2025 Jillian McKoy Twitter Facebook Five years after the World Health Organization declared COVID-19 a pandemic, the virus has largely receded from public conversation and daily routinesand when it does arise, its often referenced in the past tense. Credit: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

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