The Health Care Blog

AUGUST 19, 2022

Our rural health care system has suffered badly during the COVID-19 pandemic. It entered the pandemic with severe structural weaknesses, including magnified health disparities and inequities, lower rates of vaccination in the general population, and high risk of rural hospital closures. Tommy Ibrahim.

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Big Cities Health Coalition

OCTOBER 24, 2024

A resilient, well-funded, and equitable public health infrastructure is essential to addressing health disparities and improving overall health outcomes for urban populations nationwide. An equity approach to federal health policy and funding decisions should be data driven and designed for targeted and universal impact.

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Fund for Public Health NYC

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

“It is such a critical initiative that I am proud to be introducing accompanying legislation to require a five year public health agenda for New York City, to improve health outcomes and address health disparities. Expanding access to healthy food and mental health resources are critical. “The Cunningham.

Mental Health and Public Health 40

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 5, 2022

BY KIM BELLARD. It’s July 4 th – Independence Day for those of you who remember your U.S. There’s already too much talk about loss of rights , political tyranny , militias , even succession , and I don’t want to wade any further into those troubled waters.

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NC Health News

DECEMBER 17, 2024

We already know exactly what we got from the fee-for-service world, said former Triad Healthcare Network executive director Steve Noerr during a 2020 Duke health policy webinar. Over the course of her lifetime, she said, Cone went from being an adversary where discrimination was an issue to a vital partner in expanding health care.

Healthcare Systems and Hospitals 52

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The Network for Public Health Law

AUGUST 7, 2024

Understanding the landscape of enacted laws is critical for those working to address health disparities and promote racial equity within their communities. The dataset, though not exhaustive, provides an overview of legal trends nationwide. The interactive dataset may be explored on the Network’s website.

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The Health Care Blog

MARCH 23, 2022

Additional benefits from these measures included reducing health disparities , ensuring mental health coverage, and helping new moms with more robust coverage. An increased federal matching contribution helped states to finance Medicaid enrollment during the worst of the economic downturn and prevented Medicaid disenrollments.

Mental Health and Public Health 98

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National Council on Urban Indian Health

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Federal Comment Deadlines : Key upcoming federal deadlines for public comment on health policies affecting Native communities. Ultimately, such measures can help bridge the gap in health disparities and promote overall well-being within these communities. 2907 / H.R.

Mental Health and Public Health 52

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HEALTHBEAT

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

But those jobs, and the safety net they provide for the people in the communities served, are vulnerable as the money dries up, worrying public health leaders – particularly in sparsely populated, rural areas, which already faced long-standing health disparities and meager resources.

Ageing and Health 52

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The Health Care Blog

JULY 26, 2022

The pandemic exacerbated, but did not cause, health disparities that fall along racial, ethnic, and socioeconomic lines, ones that most countries would be embarrassed about but which the U.S. seems to tolerate without much political will around addressing them.

Healthcare Systems and Hospitals 105

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KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 16, 2024

22 KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism. Click here to watch Gounder on “CBS Mornings” on Oct. Learn more about KFF.

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KFF Health News

OCTOBER 28, 2024

“So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems.

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention 142

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HEALTHBEAT

OCTOBER 28, 2024

So much of what we see is the long tail of slavery and Jim Crow,” said Andrea Ducas , vice president of health policy at the Center for American Progress, a nonprofit think tank. Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems.

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention 68

Obesity and Chronic Disease Prevention Socioeconomic Status and Health Academic and Research Institutions Ageing and Health 68

KFF Health News

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

.” This article is from a partnership that includes Michigan Public , NPR , and KFF Health News. KFF Health News is a national newsroom that produces in-depth journalism about health issues and is one of the core operating programs at KFF—an independent source of health policy research, polling, and journalism.

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