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NPHW 2022 CSTE Member Spotlight: CSTE President Dr. Ruth Lynfield on Resiliency and Health Disparities

CSTE

Another one of Dr. Lynfields presidential priorities is also todays National Public Health Week theme: Health Disparities. i.e., a particular type of health difference that is closely linked with social, economic, and/or environmental disadvantage. Health disparities have come through as a really important issue.

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Addressing Rural Health Disparities with Data

WA State Department of Health

Addressing Rural Health Disparities with Data stevie.mathieu March 10, 2025 - 1:46pm This webinar demonstrates how public health professionals can identify, communicate about, and address health inequities in rural communities.

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Social and health disparities drive brain aging in Latin America

News Medical Health Sciences

In Brazil, education emerges as the top factor influencing cognitive decline, revealing significant health disparities affecting brain health in Latin America.

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Black Americans still suffer worse health. Here's why there's so little progress

NPR Health

The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. Image credit: Gavin McIntyre for KFF Health News) The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying culprit.

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Opinion: We should empower youth to fight for environmental justice in their own neighborhoods

Environmental Health News

increases the risk for health conditions associated with the Pittsburgh areas health disparities, including cardiovascular disease. My astonishment continued when I learned that some of the Pittsburgh regions dramatic health disparities for Black mothers and their babies can be linked to PM2.5 exposure, too.

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How New York is addressing health disparities in pregnancy-associated deaths

HEALTHBEAT

Bottom line The health of a health system can be measured by how well it cares for expecting moms. Maternal deaths have profound ripple effects on families and communities and provide an important window into broader health disparities. The loss of any expecting or new mother is a tragedy.

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Endogamy — a major cause for health disparity in India, says CSIR-CCMB study

The Hindu

Study reveals a major step towards our understanding of the genetic underpinnings for Indias unique genetic architecture which is important in the development of more effective diagnostic and therapeutic strategies