Exploring Health

JANUARY 15, 2025

Teaching Medical Students to Use Telehealth Can Reduce Rural Health Inequities Telehealth use has skyrocketed since the COVID-19 pandemic. This term refers to the issue of rural residents not being able to access healthcare improvements that are present in urban areas. Medical students have yet to be taught how to use it.

Telemedicine and Virtual Healthcare 97

Telemedicine and Virtual Healthcare Mental Health and Public Health Nutrition and Public Health Health Disparities 97

NC Health News

MARCH 23, 2025

By Jane Winik Sartwell Carolina Public Press The paradox of rural womens health care in North Carolina: Small, remote hospitals cant afford to keep delivering babies and providing other critical OB/GYN services, but their communities cant afford for them to stop.

Maternal and Child Health 52

Maternal and Child Health Public Health Law and Regulation Rural Health Ageing and Health 52

NC Health News

JANUARY 20, 2025

She left behind her career as a health unit coordinator in Florida. But since moving, Drysdale hasn’t been able to find a lasting job near her Eden home in Rockingham County, and shes worried its because of her age. Since Medicaid expansion last year , more than 22 percent of new enrollees are people aged 50-64.

Ageing and Health 130

Ageing and Health Mental Health and Public Health Health Inequalities Rural Health 130

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. Research shows Black youth ages 1 to 17 are 18 times as likely to suffer a gun homicide as their white counterparts.

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention 142

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Socioeconomic Status and Health Academic and Research Institutions Ageing and Health 142

NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

If a hospital begins to see declining numbers of births, due to an aging or shrinking population in the area, per-birth costs increase dramatically. Most hospitals in the state are governmental, educational and/or nonprofit, which means their pursuit of health care is supposed to come before the balance sheet.

Maternal and Child Health 96

Maternal and Child Health Public Health Law and Regulation Public Health Law and Policy Consulting Mental Health and Public Health 96

NC Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Anne Blythe As executive orders and new policy directives come out of the White House at a dizzying pace, many health care workers have found themselves in a quandary. Now many doctors and other health care providers are uncertain what to do if immigration officers, often referred to as ICE, show up in their waiting rooms and clinics.

Mental Health and Public Health 93

Mental Health and Public Health Health Education and Training Organizations Ageing and Health Health Inequalities 93