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Health Disparities Report 2021 - America's Health Rankings

(2 days ago) Social and Economic Factors Physical Environment Clinical Care Behaviors Health Outcomes State Summaries See more

https://assets.americashealthrankings.org/app/uploads/2021_ahr_health-disparities-comprehensive-report_final.pdf

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Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care: State Disparities

(6 days ago) WEBZinzi D. Bailey, Justin M. Feldman, and Mary T. Bassett, “How Structural Racism Works — Racist Policies as a Root Cause of U.S. Racial Health Inequities,” …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2024/apr/advancing-racial-equity-us-health-care

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Report examines racial and ethnic disparities in health, health care

(6 days ago) WEBRacial and ethnic health disparities persist across the United States, even in states with otherwise high-performing health systems, according to the latest …

https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2024-04-18-report-examines-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-health-health-care-access

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WHO releases the largest global collection of health inequality data

(9 days ago) WEBThe Health Inequality Data Repository (HIDR) includes nearly 11 million data points and consists of 59 datasets from over 15 sources. The data include …

https://www.who.int/news/item/20-04-2023-who-releases-the-largest-global-collection-of-health-inequality-data

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Measuring health inequalities: a systematic review of widely used

(3 days ago) WEBIntroduction. Strong efforts to tackle health inequalities can be seen at international and national level since the 1980s. In early 2008, the World Health …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7945367/

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Health inequities and their causes - World Health Organization …

(9 days ago) WEBHealth inequities are unfair and could be reduced by the right mix of government policies. Every day 16 000 children die before their fifth birthday. Maternal …

https://www.who.int/news-room/facts-in-pictures/detail/health-inequities-and-their-causes

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States with best health outcomes still have large racial disparities

(4 days ago) WEBA new analysis of health inequities in the United States shows that every state has deep racial and ethnic disparities in the performance of their health care …

https://www.statnews.com/2024/04/18/health-disparities-and-premature-deaths-commonwealth-fund/

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Understanding and Mitigating Health Inequities — …

(Just Now) WEBEliminating racial health inequities requires a movement away from disparities as the focus of research and toward a research agenda centered on achieving equity by dismantling structural racism.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2008628

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Beyond the map: evidencing the spatial dimension of health …

(2 days ago) WEBSpatial inequalities in health result from different exposures to health risk factors according to the features of geographical contexts, in terms of physical …

https://ij-healthgeographics.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12942-020-00242-0

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2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

(4 days ago) WEBIntroduction. The National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report assesses the performance of our healthcare system and identifies areas of strengths and …

https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/nhqrdr/nhqdr21/index.html

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Addressing health inequities among people living in …

(5 days ago) WEBGlobally, extreme poverty continues to be overwhelmingly rural, accounting for almost 4 in 5 people living in extreme poverty. Multidimensional poverty is also overwhelmingly rural.Health inequities …

https://www.who.int/activities/addressing-health-inequities-among-people-living-in-rural-and-remote-areas

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The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We …

(9 days ago) WEBMaternal health: The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of industrialized countries, and the 2022 NHQDR shows that this rate is increasing. The overall maternal …

https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/2022-national-healthcare-disparities-report.html

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What is Health Equity? Health Equity CDC - Centers for Disease

(Just Now) WEBHealth equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Achieving this requires ongoing societal efforts to: Address …

https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/whatis/index.html

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3 The Root Causes of Health Inequity - National Center for

(5 days ago) WEBHealth inequity, categories and examples of which were discussed in the previous chapter, arises from social, economic, environmental, and structural disparities …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK425845/

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Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and …

(9 days ago) WEBA health care disparity typically refers to differences between groups in health insurance coverage, affordability, access to and use of care, and quality of care. …

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/disparities-in-health-and-health-care-5-key-question-and-answers/

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Measuring health inequalities: a systematic review of widely used

(5 days ago) WEBAccording to many conceptual frameworks, the first step in the monitoring cycle of health inequalities is the selection of relevant topics and indicators. However, …

https://equityhealthj.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12939-021-01397-3

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Health Equity in Healthy People 2030

(1 days ago) WEBSimilar to Healthy People 2020, Healthy People 2030 defines health equity as “the attainment of the highest level of health for all people. Achieving health equity requires …

https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/health-equity-healthy-people-2030

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Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories

(3 days ago) WEBMotivation for studying health inequalities. Despite considerable attention to the problem of health inequalities since the 1980s (), striking differences in health still …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4481045/

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Health Inequalities - OECD

(4 days ago) WEBData and research on health including biotechnology, cancer, health care, health spending, health insurance, fitness, dementia, disability, obesity, smoking, genetics and …

https://www.oecd.org/health/inequalities-in-health.htm

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What Are Health Inequalities? The King's Fund

(9 days ago) WEBHealth inequalities can therefore involve differences in: health status, for example, life expectancy. access to care, for example, availability of given services. quality and …

https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/long-reads/what-are-health-inequalities

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Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories

(7 days ago) WEBMotivation for studying health inequalities. Despite considerable attention to the problem of health inequalities since the 1980s (Citation 8), striking differences in …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.3402/gha.v8.27106

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What are health inequalities? - Health inequalities - Public Health

(Just Now) WEBAs shown in the diagram above, the fundamental causes of health inequalities are an unequal distribution of income, power and wealth. This can lead to poverty and …

https://www.healthscotland.scot/health-inequalities/what-are-health-inequalities

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Health disparities and health inequalities: applying All Our Health

(6 days ago) WEBHealth inequalities. These differences in health outcomes are known as health inequalities – unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population, …

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/health-disparities-and-health-inequalities-applying-all-our-health/health-disparities-and-health-inequalities-applying-all-our-health

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Report measures sharp health care disparities by race, ethnicity …

(9 days ago) WEBHealth care mirrors the “systematic inequalities that plague all facets of American society,” he said. Local, state and federal policies as well as “underinvestment …

https://wisconsinexaminer.com/2024/04/18/report-measures-sharp-health-care-disparities-by-race-ethnicity-and-geography/

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What is health equity? How the idea grew – and why it matters

(9 days ago) WEBHealth equity seeks to address that. "Health equity means that we achieve health that is as equal as possible, within the constraints of things we can fix," said Dr. …

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2024/04/24/what-is-health-equity-how-the-idea-grew-and-why-it-matters

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Cardiovascular Risk Associated With Social Determinants of Health …

(8 days ago) WEBKey Points. Question Does adding individual- or area-level social determinants of health (SDOH) to the pooled cohort equations (PCEs) or the Predicting Risk of CVD …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamanetworkopen/fullarticle/2818099

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131 million in U.S. live in areas with unhealthy pollution levels, …

(4 days ago) WEBNearly 40% of people in the U.S. are living in areas with unhealthy levels of air pollution and the country is backsliding on clean air progress as the effects of climate …

https://www.nbcnews.com/science/environment/131-million-us-live-areas-unhealthy-pollution-levels-lung-association-rcna148795

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NHS England » What are healthcare inequalities?

(3 days ago) WEBHealth inequalities are unfair and avoidable differences in health across the population, and between different groups within society. These include how long people are likely to …

https://www.england.nhs.uk/about/equality/equality-hub/national-healthcare-inequalities-improvement-programme/what-are-healthcare-inequalities/

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Health inequalities - Office for National Statistics

(Just Now) WEBAn estimated 7% of adults in England showed evidence of type 2 diabetes, and 3 in 10 (30%) of those were undiagnosed; this equates to approximately 1 million adults with …

https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthinequalities

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Women are less likely to die when treated by female doctors

(7 days ago) WEBAlthough the difference between the two groups seems small, the researchers say erasing the gap could save 5,000 women’s lives each year. The study included …

https://www.nbcnews.com/health/health-care/women-are-less-likely-die-treated-female-doctors-study-suggests-rcna148254

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UN report points to yawning gap of inequality in sexual and

(4 days ago) WEBFILE - A woman carries a her baby and a bucket of water in Harare on April 6, 2020. A new study says an African woman is roughly 130 times more likely to die from …

https://apnews.com/article/abortion-un-reproductive-health-sexual-women-7237fdde4bb9c1b2f8f9c445a9e1c197

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Quantifying health inequalities in England - The Health Foundation

(8 days ago) WEBOur analysis shows, on average, a 60-year-old woman in the poorest area of England has diagnosed illness equivalent to that of a 76-year-old woman in the wealthiest area. She …

https://www.health.org.uk/news-and-comment/charts-and-infographics/quantifying-health-inequalities

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Black Americans' Views of Racial Inequality, Racism, Reparations …

(5 days ago) WEBIn assessing the magnitude of problems that they face, the majority of Black Americans say racism (63%), police brutality (60%) and economic inequality (54%) are …

https://www.pewresearch.org/race-and-ethnicity/2022/08/30/black-americans-have-a-clear-vision-for-reducing-racism-but-little-hope-it-will-happen/

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Health alert from sewage spill partially lifted in Lake Worth Beach

(8 days ago) WEBThe Florida Department of Health in Palm Beach County lifted health alert that was prompted by a Lake Worth Beach area sewage spill.

https://www.palmbeachpost.com/story/news/local/2024/04/27/health-alert-from-sewage-spill-partially-lifted-in-lake-worth-beach/73482249007/

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Ground beef health alert: Products may be contaminated with E. coli

(7 days ago) WEBThe U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service issued a public health alert Saturday for ground beef products produced in March and …

https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/food/2024/04/22/ground-beef-health-alert-e-coli/73409037007/

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Kaiser notifies millions of its members of a privacy data breach

(9 days ago) WEBLOS ANGELES (KABC) -- About 13.4 million current and former Kaiser Permanente members and patients were potentially impacted by a privacy breach, the …

https://abc7.com/kaiser-permanente-notifies-millions-of-its-members-a-privacy-data-breach/14737993/

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Tragic death of Kay-Alana Turner prompts dialogue on mental …

(4 days ago) WEBFollowing the tragic discovery of the body of Kay-Alana Turner, a woman who may have been experiencing a mental health crisis and fled from deputies, a …

https://www.click2houston.com/news/local/2024/04/27/tragic-death-of-kay-alana-turner-prompts-dialogue-on-mental-health-crisis-response-and-de-escalating-situations/

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