Health Inequalities, Health Policy and Rural Health

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

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.

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Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals

NC Health News

MARCH 19, 2025

Now, Republican leaders in Washington are proposing major cuts to Medicaid, putting rural hospitals even further out in the cold. In North Carolina, 37 percent of births are covered by Medicaid, according to KFF, a nonprofit that analyzes health policy.

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As ICE policy shifts, NC health care workers face uncertainty

NC Health News

FEBRUARY 12, 2025

By Anne Blythe As executive orders and new policy directives come out of the White House at a dizzying pace, many health care workers have found themselves in a quandary.

Mental Health and Public Health

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

Financial pressures prompt women’s services cuts at NC rural hospitals

As ICE policy shifts, NC health care workers face uncertainty

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