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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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Report Finds Widespread Health Inequities in United States

(4 days ago) WebA Commonwealth Fund analysis of state health systems found 'pervasive' racial and ethnic inequities throughout the country, even in states that provide high-quality care to their residents. A

https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20211223inequityreport.html

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New Health Equity Scorecard: State-by-State Scorecard of Racial …

(1 days ago) WebThe health equity scorecard reveals that even among high-performing states, racial and ethnic health disparities can be dramatic. For example, Minnesota’s health care system, which has historically performed well in Commonwealth Fund state scorecard rankings, has some of the largest health disparities between white and …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/press-release/2021/new-health-equity-scorecard-state-state-scorecard-racial-and-ethnic-disparities

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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 mortality rate in 2020 was 23.8 deaths per 100,000 live births, up from 20.1 deaths in 2019 and 17.4 deaths in 2018.

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

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

(6 days ago) WebAdvancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care. The Commonwealth Fund 2024 State Health Disparities Report. Dr. Reshma Chugani checks 7-year-old Zoe Oliver’s ears during a medical visit at Atlanta Children’s Clinical Center on September 29, 2023. Health care system performance varies widely by race and ethnicity, both within states …

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

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2021 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report

(4 days ago) WebThe National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report assesses the performance of our healthcare system and identifies areas of strengths and weaknesses, as well as disparities, for access to healthcare and quality of healthcare. Quality is described in terms of six priorities: patient safety, person-centered care, care coordination, effective

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

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DISPARITIES IN HEALTHCARE - 2021 National Healthcare Quality …

(5 days ago) WebHealthcare delivery is not experienced equitably by all populations. A healthcare disparity is a difference between population groups in the way they access, experience, and receive healthcare. Factors that influence healthcare disparities include social, economic, environmental, and other disadvantages,1, 2 some of which are explored in this report.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK578532/

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Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care

(8 days ago) WebIntroduction. Profound racial and ethnic disparities in health and well-being have long been the norm in the United States. Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) people live fewer years, on …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/scorecard/2021/nov/achieving-racial-ethnic-equity-us-health-care-state-performance

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Understanding and Mitigating Health Inequities — …

(Just Now) WebOver the past half-century, understanding of health and health care disparities in the United States — including underlying social, clinical, and system-level contributors — has increased.

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

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Health Inequity in the United States - Leonard Davis Institute …

(7 days ago) Webof income inequality (the Gini index, where higher indicates more inequality), which has grown considerably over the past 40 years (Figure 1).3 At the same time, the U.S. has what appears to be a spectacularly inefficient health care system, spending far more than the next closest country, which is Switzerland (Figure 2).

https://ldi.upenn.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/Penn-LDI-Health-Inequity-in-the-United-States-Report_5.pdf

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NIH-funded study highlights the financial toll of health disparities …

(1 days ago) WebIn 31 states, adults with less than a high school diploma/GED had the highest economic burden of education-related health inequities. In 20 states, the burden was greatest among adults with a high school diploma/GED. Adults with some college had the lowest burden of education-related health inequities in all 50 states and the District …

https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/nih-funded-study-highlights-financial-toll-health-disparities-united-states

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Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity

(6 days ago) WebThe BRFSS survey measures eleven types of ACEs among adults. As of 2021, AIAN (31%), Black (22%) and Hispanic (22%) adults were more likely than White (19%) adults to have experienced four or more

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/report/key-data-on-health-and-health-care-by-race-and-ethnicity/

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The State of Health Disparities in the United States

(5 days ago) WebHEALTH DISPARITIES. For the purposes of this report, health disparities are differences that exist among specific population groups in the United States in the attainment of full health potential that can be measured by differences in incidence, prevalence, mortality, burden of disease, and other adverse health conditions ().While …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK425844/

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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 historical and contemporary injustices; Overcome economic, social, and other obstacles to health and health care; and. Eliminate preventable health disparities. [1,2]

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

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Why Racial Inequities Still Persist in Health Care - The New York …

(7 days ago) WebThe disparity was seen even when Americans from various racial and ethnic backgrounds shared the same insurance, like Medicare, the government health plan for seniors. “Access to primary care

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/health/racial-disparities-health-care.html

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Health Inequality Data Repository - World Health Organization …

(8 days ago) WebThe Health Inequality Data Repository contains datasets of disaggregated data covering diverse topics and dimensions of inequality, from a variety of publicly available data sources. It aims to make disaggregated data more accessible and navigable to diverse global audiences. 🡪 State of inequality: HIV, tuberculosis and malaria report

https://www.who.int/data/inequality-monitor/data

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Health Inequity in the United States: A Primer - Penn LDI

(4 days ago) WebBy any measure, the United States has a level of health inequity rarely seen among developed nations. The roots of this inequity are deep and complex, and are a function of differences in income, education, race and segregation, and place. In this primer, we provide an overview of these distinctly American problems, and discuss programs and

https://ldi.upenn.edu/our-work/research-updates/health-inequity-in-the-united-states-a-primer/

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Download Data - Health Inequality

(4 days ago) WebIn order to facilitate further research and reporting on health inequality in the United States, we are providing 16 formatted data tables in Excel and Stata formats, along with documentation for each table. These tables contain life expectancy estimates at age 40 by income and sex at various levels of geographic and temporal aggregation.

https://healthinequality.org/data/

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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 valuing everyone equally with focused and ongoing societal efforts to address avoidable inequalities, historical and contemporary injustices, and the elimination of health

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

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The concepts of health inequality, disparities and equity in the era …

(3 days ago) Web2.1. Health inequality. Dictionaries define inequality as the “quality of being unequal or uneven” (Merriam-Webster, n.d.).The term, health inequality, used in most countries other than the U.S., is based on the seminal work of Margaret Whitehead in the United Kingdom (Whitehead, 2007), and refers not only to the quality of being unequal or …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7521436/

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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 mortality is a key indicator of health inequity. Tuberculosis is a disease of poverty. 87% of premature deaths due to noncommunicable diseases occur in low- and middle-income …

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

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NY $7.5B Medicaid waiver plan approved. Can it fix health …

(6 days ago) Web0:45. Federal regulators approved New York’s $7.5 billion Medicaid waiver plan aimed at addressing medical worker shortages, safety net hospitals’ financial struggles and health inequality

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2024/01/15/ny-7-5b-medicaid-waiver-plan-approved-can-it-fix-health-inequality/72163676007/

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Health inequities in Mass. cost taxpayers $5.9 billion per year

(8 days ago) WebProviding accessible health care will not bankrupt the state, but depriving people of life-saving medical attention just might. The health inequities caused by our current health care system

https://www.bostonglobe.com/2024/05/11/opinion/legislature-health-care-equity/

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Map Shows States That Give Migrants Health Care - Newsweek

(5 days ago) WebThat list included California, Oregon, Washington and Colorado. However, a dozen states and D.C. offer fully state-funded coverage for income-eligible children no matter their immigration status

https://www.newsweek.com/map-shows-states-that-give-migrants-health-insurance-1901178

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Report: Mental health inequalities could cost U.S. $14 trillion in …

(3 days ago) WebMental health inequalities could cost the U.S. economy $14 trillion from now until 2040, according to a report from a Nashville-based medical school, supported by Princeton-based Otsuka America Pharmaceutical. The report, labeled “The Projected Costs and Economic Impact of Mental Health Inequities in the United States,” builds on …

https://www.roi-nj.com/2024/05/16/healthcare/report-mental-health-inequalities-could-cost-u-s-14-trillion-in-next-16-years/

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State Medicaid Costs Poised to Surge From Pandemic Lows

(6 days ago) WebIn fiscal year 2021—the first full budget year marred by the COVID-19 pandemic—states collectively spent 14.1 cents of every state-generated dollar to provide Medicaid coverage to low-income Americans; that was 1.5 cents lower than the 15-year average of 15.7 cents of every state dollar. A pandemic-related surge in tax revenue, …

https://www.pewtrusts.org/en/research-and-analysis/articles/2024/05/07/state-medicaid-costs-poised-to-surge-from-pandemic-lows

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Inequalities in health: definitions, concepts, and theories

(3 days ago) WebBetween 2003 and 2006 alone, the direct economic cost of health inequalities based on race or ethnicity in the United States was estimated at $230 billion. Researchers calculated that medical costs faced by African Americans, Asian Americans, and Hispanics were in excess by 30% due to racial and ethnic health inequalities, …

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

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Predictors of healthcare access and utilization by Syrian Americans …

(9 days ago) Web2023 Breman Global Health Fellows Conduct Research Abroad; 2022 Breman Global Health Fellows Conduct Research Abroad; USC leans into addressing health inequalities with the hire of global health and human rights leader Jonathan Cohen

https://globalhealth.usc.edu/2024/05/12/predictors-of-healthcare-access-and-utilization-by-syrian-americans-in-the-united-states/

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State of health inequality: Indonesia - World Health Organization …

(2 days ago) WebThe State of health inequality: Indonesia report covers 11 health topics, drawing data from about 53 health indicators, which were disaggregated by eight dimensions of inequality. Findings were derived from analysis of disaggregated data estimates and summary measures of health inequality. In consultation with subject …

https://www.who.int/publications-detail-redirect/9789241513340

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Fast Facts: HIV in the US by Race and Ethnicity HIV CDC

(9 days ago) WebHIV affects some groups more than others. Social and structural issues—such as HIV stigma, homophobia, discrimination, poverty, and limited access to high-quality health care—influence health outcomes and continue to drive inequities. HIV incidence. HIV incidence refers to the estimated number of new HIV infections in a given year.

https://www.cdc.gov/hiv/data-research/facts-stats/race-ethnicity.html

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Gender Inequality in the WAEMU - IMF

(4 days ago) WebThis paper documents the current state of gender inequalities in the WAEMU by focusing on outcomes (health, education, labor market and financial inclusion) and opportunities (economic rights). The findings show that despite significant progress toward gender equality over the last three decades, there are still prevalent gender …

https://www.imf.org/en/Publications/selected-issues-papers/Issues/2024/05/16/Gender-Inequality-in-the-WAEMU-548997

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A new South Africa health law aims at deep inequality, but critics …

(9 days ago) WebSouth Africa's president has signed into law a bill that aims to overhaul the healthcare system to address deep inequality, but it faces legal challenges from critics.

https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/health/a-new-south-africa-health-law-aims-at-deep-inequality-but-critics-say-theyll-challenge-it/

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