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Guest Blog: A Research Agenda to Ensure High Value and Equitable Health Care

Research America

These inequities undermine public trust in the health care system and exacerbate poor health outcomes.

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Gender-Affirming Care Supports Transgender People

Black Health Matters

They aid individuals facing a few health issues and barriers to treatment outside of HIV. Their work is pivotal because, according to a 2016 article in Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes, and Obesity, “Transgender persons suffer significant health disparities in multiple arenas.

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Successful rural county health program could go statewide—if politics don’t get in the way

NC Health News

Beneficiaries get deliveries of food, rides to doctors appointments and other services that are designed to combat the various social, economic and geographic issues that contribute to health disparities. Sheps Center for Health Services Research at the University of North Carolina.