CHIRblog

SEPTEMBER 30, 2024

Since the early 1990s, health care provider consolidation in states like Oregon has led to higher prices, reduced access, and worsened health inequities.

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Institute of Public Health

JULY 20, 2023

Joint North South Public Health Conference: Call for abstracts now open maresa.fagan@p… Thu, 20/07/2023 - 12:31 Joint North South Public Health Conference: Call for abstracts now open Health Inequalities Public Health 20 Jul, 2023 Register for the conference here.

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Health Inequalities 52

Institute of Public Health

JULY 7, 2023

This virtual event will bring together international and local experts to discuss the drivers of health inequalities in the context of the cost-of-living crisis and wider determinants of health. Further details to be announced shortly.   

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Health Inequalities 52

Black Health Matters

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

It is no secret that health inequities and barriers to quality care contribute to adverse outcomes within America’s Black community,” wrote Dr. Walter L. There is no question that this action by CMS would further worsen health inequities experienced by Black dialysis patients. Fields, Jr.,

Climate Change and Health 98

Climate Change and Health Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Health Inequalities Health Equity 98

News Medical Health Sciences

FEBRUARY 7, 2025

x NHS NELCA 'Check In' campaign transforms breast cancer awareness for young people, addressing health inequities and promoting self-checking. The CoppaFeel!

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Better Health For All

OCTOBER 17, 2024

COVID-19 has further emphasised the significance of public health as a speciality and rekindled wider interest in health inequalities [1]. Generalism is a form of clinical practice that is shaped around the priority health needs of the person rather than the practitioners’ own field of expertise.

Occupational Health and Safety 84

Occupational Health and Safety Health Inequalities Health Education Ageing and Health 84

NPJ Women's Health

DECEMBER 16, 2024

The subnational pattern of gender disparities closely aligns with existing regional dynamics of socioeconomic and health inequalities. National and statewide policies are needed to address lifetime gender disparities and improve older womens health.

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Health Inequalities Ageing and Health 52

Science Daily - Public Health

OCTOBER 11, 2024

By expanding beyond the conventional focus on age and context, this new approach opens the door to a more detailed understanding of disease transmission and offers a powerful tool for addressing health inequities.

Socioeconomic Status and Health 52

Socioeconomic Status and Health Ethnicity and Health Health Inequalities Ageing and Health 52

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

APRIL 16, 2024

In our scoping review published in IJE , we developed 12 criteria based on previous literature on overadjustment bias and used these to look at potential approaches to managing overadjustment bias in 84 systematic reviews of health inequalities. Overall, these approaches were not regularly applied.

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Health Education and Training Organizations Health Inequalities Ageing and Health Social Determinants of Health 52

Institute of Public Health

MAY 2, 2023

Our Work admin Tue, 02/05/2023 - 17:38 Our Work We focus on promoting health and wellbeing, improving health equity, and reducing health inequalities throughout the life course. This covers a wide range of topics within the broad theme of public health which can be seen below.

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Health Inequalities Health Equity Health Policy 52

Association of Health Care Journalists

DECEMBER 13, 2024

Using race and ethnicity categories in research contributes to health inequities but leaving them out can also be problematic, according to a recent consensus report published by the National Academies of Science, Engineering and Medicine. Racial categories in the U.S.,

Ethnicity and Health 98

Ethnicity and Health Health Disparities Health Equity Health Inequalities 98

NC Health News

MARCH 12, 2025

The fellowship is a yearlong service-based program that empowers graduate students to do a community health service project that helps address systemic health inequities. Not only are the students paired with a faculty member to try to identify barriers to care, the overall goal is to improve health equity.

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Health Inequalities Health Equity Health Policy 74

PHIG Partners

OCTOBER 11, 2024

With 88% of participants reporting enhanced climate change knowledge and 77% of projects improving community resilience, the academy significantly addresses racial and health inequities.

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BU School of Public Health Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2024

Ultimately, says Cole, “efforts to improve maternal health through care delivery reforms must happen alongside broader efforts that address the social and structural determinants of maternal health inequities.”

Maternal and Child Health 63

Maternal and Child Health Health Inequalities Biostatistics Health Disparities 63

BU School of Public Health Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

There’s an urgent need for people with a passion to tackle the health inequalities we see everywhere while also adopting rigorous methods to figure out what approaches will truly make a difference. Some programs emphasize health equity or rigorous methods, but students need strong training in both.

Health Education and Training Organizations 98

Health Education and Training Organizations Biostatistics Health Equity Ageing and Health 98

The NACCHO Podcast Series

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Simbo Ige, Assistant Commissioner for the Bureau of Health Equity and Capacity Building at the New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene about the continued need to push health equity in practice despite the wind down of federal funding for COVID programming. They also talk about the $2.25

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Health Equity Mental Health and Public Health Ethnicity and Health Health Inequalities 40

Monday Morning

MARCH 28, 2022

These guidelines require that students be able to discuss racism, structural bias, and health inequities at multiple levels of influence; describe the importance of cultural competence in public health; and apply an awareness of cultural values and practices to public health efforts (IEAP, p.7).

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Health Inequalities Health Disparities Health Equity 52

The Health Care Blog

JULY 5, 2022

It has led to declining mortality rates , lagging behind peer countries; It trails peer countries on most measures of health outcomes and quality of care; It spends much more than other countries, despite the greater mortality and morbidity it achieves; It wastes as much of a third of its spending, such as on unnecessary/inappropriate care and excessive (..)

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Ethnicity and Health Food Security and Safety Ageing and Health Health Inequalities 104

Black Health Matters

JANUARY 10, 2025

Altadena has been affected by the Eaton fire, one of several wildfires in the area.

Climate Change and Health 98

Climate Change and Health Mental Health and Public Health Syndemics Health Inequalities 98

The Health Care Blog

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Patient data continues to be siloed despite huge gains in electronic health records; not only do different EHR vendors not commun icate well, but different health systems using the same vendor also have problems. Health inequities abound. Somebody needs some $3 tips. We’re doing way too much of the work, for free.

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Health Inequalities Health Policy 98

International Journal of Epidemiology Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Moreover, future public health initiatives should consider providing more health resources, and enabling better access to them, as well as increasing social opportunities, such as education and cultural activities, for socioeconomically disadvantaged neighbourhoods, while also targeting individual behaviour.

Socioeconomic Status and Health 52

Socioeconomic Status and Health Nutrition and Public Health Health Inequalities Risk Factors 52

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. Medical students have yet to be taught how to use it. By Joy Lee I got my first period when I was 12 years old.

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

BU School of Public Health Blog

JANUARY 9, 2025

She hopes that the LEAD initiative will result in further development of novel research questions and grant applications on how to improve Latino health, and she foresees the program fostering cross-disciplinary collaborations that could help the School of Public Health tackle its strategic goal of reducing health inequities.

Ethnicity and Health 59

Ethnicity and Health Ageing and Health Health Inequalities Health Disparities 59

Sheffield DPH

DECEMBER 1, 2024

Were I King for a day in this space:, in my view, a 10 year plan serious about health inequalities must achieve 3 things from the perspectives of the NHS system: NHS budget focus on inequality. Capitalise on the inequality weighting. For all decisions demonstrably to be pro equity or give a good reason why not.

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Public Health Law and Policy Consulting Health Inequalities Ageing and Health Health Policy 40

HEALTHBEAT

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Researchers have also found a link between voting and health, noting that a vicious cycle can develop where poor health can reduce voter turnout, which can result in electoral outcomes and policies that worsen health inequities.

Ageing and Health 62

Ageing and Health Social Determinants of Health Health Inequalities Health Equity 62

Better Health For All

DECEMBER 19, 2024

Advance Equity in Training : Implement recommendations from our 2024 Fair Training Culture report to improve equity across the public health career pathway, promoting public health leadership in anti-racism, and supporting our membership in understanding, advocating for and tackling health inequalities.

Mental Health and Public Health 40

Mental Health and Public Health Nutrition and Public Health Climate Change and Health Health Equity 40

PHAB

JUNE 24, 2024

He was instrumental in helping to create the vision for KCU’s new Center for Population Health and Equity, aimed at engaging communities in addressing the factors that impact health—the social and structural determinants contributing to health inequities.

Media and Health Communication 52

Media and Health Communication Health Education Health Inequalities Health Services Research 52

Better Health For All

JUNE 20, 2024

Advocating for Health Equity : We are staunch advocates for reducing health inequalities and creating optimal conditions for health and wellbeing. Collaborating with partners across sectors, we advocate on critical issues including anti-racism, smoking cessation, climate change, and inequality reduction.

Climate Change and Health 52

Climate Change and Health Media and Health Communication Health Equity Health Inequalities 52

Black Health Matters

JANUARY 9, 2025

BHM: The study emphasized the importance of institutional leadership in addressing health inequities. Addressing these barriers requires a collaborative approach that combines systemic healthcare reform, community-based solutions, and patient-centered support.

Social Determinants of Health 52

Social Determinants of Health Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Health Education and Training Organizations Risk Factors 52

Tulane Public Health Blog

APRIL 14, 2024

While healthcare organizations around the globe work to improve access to quality care, global health professionals work to bring together national and international efforts to address health inequity.

Global Health 52

Global Health Mental Health and Public Health Maternal and Child Health Health Equity 52

BU School of Public Health Blog

NOVEMBER 13, 2024

There’s an urgent need for people with a passion to tackle the health inequalities we see everywhere while also adopting rigorous methods to figure out what approaches will truly make a difference. Some programs emphasize health equity or rigorous methods, but students need strong training in both.

Health Education and Training Organizations 52

Health Education and Training Organizations Biostatistics Health Equity Ageing and Health 52

NC Health News

JANUARY 22, 2025

By Will Atwater The recent fires ravaging Los Angeles have highlighted the dangers faced in firefighting winds, fast-moving flames, smoke, chemical fumes but it turns out that one of the most persistent hazards faced by firefighters could be the very clothing designed to protect them, according to a recent report.

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Environmental Health and Safety Ageing and Health Health Inequalities Environmental Health 119

Sheffield DPH

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

likely to widen health inequalities. It will therefore be important to assess the potential impact on health inequalities. This was the study being cited. see also this comment in Lancet Diabetes & Endocrinology Knock on consequence of shortage in diabetes context – a form of population harm 4. What at 2yr.

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Media and Health Communication Health Inequalities Non-communicable Diseases Health Economics 40

BU School of Public Health Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2024

health disparities Professor Receives $29M NIH Grant to Study Dementia Risk Factors, Prevention, and Treatment Maria Glymour will lead the Triangulation of Innovative Methods to End Alzheimer’s Disease project, which will utilize large, diverse datasets to examine whether interventions targeting alcohol use, depression, vision or hearing impairments, (..)

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Risk Factors Socioeconomic Status and Health Mental Health and Public Health Ethnicity and Health 68

Association of Health Care Journalists

MARCH 19, 2025

From a public health perspective, inequities in transplantation contribute to worse health outcomes and deepen existing disparities. End-stage organ failure disproportionately affects communities of color, and when theyre shut out of the transplant system, it exacerbates health inequities.

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Health Policy and Advocacy Organizations Healthcare Systems and Hospitals Health Inequalities Health Equity 101

The Hill

NOVEMBER 26, 2024

We continue to do everything in our power to increase access to life-saving organs while addressing health inequities faced by people with HIV,” HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra said in a statement.

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Health Inequalities 137

Association of Health Care Journalists

JANUARY 9, 2025

When covering this story, it’s crucial for health journalists to highlight the disproportionate impact of wildfires on certain populations. The disparity in exposure can exacerbate existing health inequities.

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Climate Change and Health Mental Health and Public Health Emergency Preparedness and Response Disaster and Emergency Management 125