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Black Americans Still Suffer Worse Health. Here’s Why There’s So Little Progress

KFF Health News

Recent efforts to address health disparities have run headlong into racist policies still entrenched in health systems. health care system and structural barriers have led to persistent health inequities that cost more than a million lives and billions of dollars, according to the national academies report.

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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.