Exploring Health

JANUARY 15, 2025

Contributing factors include lower levels of physical activity and poor nutrition, coupled with limited access to healthcare services. One solution to this lack of access to healthcare exists: Telemedicine. Rural communities face disproportionate burdens of preventable conditions such as obesity, diabetes, and cancer.

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Smart Data Collective

APRIL 2, 2023

Their skills would certainly be valued by managerial staff who need to have ready access to healthcare statistics at all hours. Data engineers who’ve previously worked in the financial or telecommunications sectors may find this to be a rewarding field to get into.

Access to Healthcare 111

Access to Healthcare 111

Maternal Health Task Force

MAY 21, 2024

In addition to direct health impacts, climate change exacerbates socioeconomic determinants such as poverty , low educational attainment , reduced access to clean water and sanitation , racial and ethnic minorities , and income disparities , disproportionately affecting marginalized and vulnerable mothers.

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HEALTHBEAT

JANUARY 21, 2025

For those who do, its important for workers to know about bird flu and to have access to healthcare and financial support like sick leave, said Emory University epidemiology professor Jodie Guest, who helped with Covid testing efforts among poultry workers. Poultry and Egg Association.

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Access to Healthcare 88

Black Health Matters

NOVEMBER 2, 2024

While significant strides have been made in treatment, prevention, and decreasing stigma, socioeconomic barriers, and healthcare disparities continue to fuel the epidemic. It is important to foster open dialogue, provide culturally sensitive and appropriate education, and ensure equitable access to healthcare resources.

Ethnicity and Health 52

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Black Health Matters

DECEMBER 31, 2024

So how do we keep people invested in giving them the extra support, recognizing that it’s not just access to healthcare? Who are those 5%, and don’t they need much more support? We talk about social determinants, and homelessness is just one of them.

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Black Health Matters

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

Celebrating Black History Month with FIGS Throughout February, the Doctors have partnered with healthcare apparel brand FIGS to curate the “FIGS FAVES” Shop,” including their favorite products. Learn more about the featured products and beneficiary organizations highlighted by the doctors here.

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Black Health Matters

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

The causes of these disparities are quite complex and include (but are not limited to) social and economic inequities, poor access to healthcare, physician bias, and systematic discrimination.

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BMJ Global Health

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Poverty-stricken families living in unsanitary conditions with limited access to healthcare are disproportionately affected. Polio thus transforms from a medical challenge into a geopolitical issue, entangling questions of national security, sovereignty, and international collaboration.

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Black Health Matters

SEPTEMBER 7, 2024

High educational attainment is linked to better health outcomes, as it is also known to lead to higher income levels, better access to healthcare, and healthy lifestyle choices. Education: Falls Church ranks No. 1 in education, which can contribute to better overall health.

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Tulane Public Health Blog

APRIL 14, 2024

Principles of Patient-Centered Care The Picker Institute, a British healthcare research institute, developed eight core principles of patient-centered care to address and meet patients’ needs.

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Your Local Epidemiologist

OCTOBER 16, 2024

A delivery of organic produce is no replacement for access to healthcare. It’s unclear if they intend to cut insurance coverage, but given budgetary constraints and the high cost of organic food, this may be a consequence. This would be a big problem: Diet and exercise are very important but cannot solve all medical problems.

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Gideon

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

Like other Neglected Tropical Diseases, it is endemic to low-income regions of the globe that deal with poor water quality, sanitation, and limited access to healthcare. [1] As of 2019, it continues to be a threat to over 859 million people in over 70 countries.

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Mental Health and Public Health Water Access to Healthcare 52

Gideon

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

These include poverty, poor nutrition, lack of access to healthcare, and unsafe delivery conditions. Endemic diseases are typically found in developing countries with poor sanitation and limited access to healthcare. It is also an important indicator of social and economic conditions.

Maternal and Child Health 52

Maternal and Child Health Health Metrics and Evaluation Nutrition and Public Health Ageing and Health 52

Gideon

NOVEMBER 12, 2020

Additionally, pneumonia tends to be more common in communities with poor access to healthcare or limited resources for treating respiratory infections.

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Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Risk Factors Ageing and Health Access to Healthcare 40

Managed Care Matters

SEPTEMBER 16, 2024

Implications – untrained physicians and reduced access to healthcare. “We don’t need people further concentrating in urban areas where there’s already good access.” AAMC-sponsored research found there are fewer applications for residency and more advanced training in states with abortion limits.

Access to Healthcare 52

Access to Healthcare 52

The Network for Public Health Law

JANUARY 8, 2025

We also anticipate the enacting of increased legal and policy barriers that will create setbacks to efforts to address socioeconomic disparities, racial and ethnic discrimination, and unequal access to healthcare services.

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Black Health Matters

JANUARY 7, 2025

.” Carter Supported Healthcare Accessibility A 2017 article in Missouri Medicine states, “Primary care physicians in rural areas often do not have the support of sub-specialists, hospitalists, or emergency physicians, and thus treat a wider range of conditions with limited access to sophisticated technology.”

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The Health Care Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2024

Numerous factors contribute to this disparity, including limited access to healthcare providers, socioeconomic factors, insufficient knowledge about the occurrence and spread of specific cancers, the significance of screening in early cancer detection, and the preference for less invasive techniques.

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

MARCH 21, 2025

Further, reductions in Medicaid funding could lead to hospital closures and reduced access to healthcare providers in rural and underserved areas, that are already struggling to meet the needs of their populations.

Mental Health and Public Health 52

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HEALTHBEAT

FEBRUARY 25, 2025

It is actually linked to structural racism, policy decisions, and access to healthcare. Kaplan, who teaches about the context of race in maternal health at the CUNY Graduate School of Public Health, says expanding Medicaid access to doulas isnt enough.

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Maternal and Child Health Mental Health and Public Health Socioeconomic Status and Health Healthcare Systems and Hospitals 75

Association of Health Care Journalists

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

Journalists can investigate why many historically redlined neighborhoods still face limited access to healthcare facilities, environmental hazards, and economic challenges. Several interrelated factors are behind the persistent health disparities including the limited access to healthcare facilities in these neighborhoods.

Mental Health and Public Health 66

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NC Health News

APRIL 5, 2025

On the one hand, he said, rural places are losing access to healthcare facilities because of budget cuts. The communities that most need the assistance and guidance will again find themselves on the short end of the stick and end up being the ones that are suffering more than anybody else, White-Williamson said.

Environmental Health 52

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BU School of Public Health Blog

MARCH 8, 2025

The same populations had higher exposure risks in the workplace, higher transmission risks at home, worse access to healthcare, and lower vaccination rates during key points in the pandemic, he says.

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The Hill

FEBRUARY 14, 2025

A policy brief from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a philanthropy focused on healthcare, found that work requirements reduce access to healthcare and health-promoting programs, keep eligible people from acquiring assistance, and drive people deeper into poverty. CBO found it would also lead to 1.5

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The Hill

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

Let me be clear: California law has not changed, and hospitals and clinics have a legal obligation to provide equal access to healthcare services, he said in a statement.

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Access to Healthcare 106

HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Gilda Pedraza, founder and executive director of the Latino Community Fund Georgia, said she worries about immigrants' access to healthcare under Trump, but also deportations that could force people to separate from their children. Concerns about funding cuts are also very real, Ramirez said.

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