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Black community has new option for health care: The church

WEBIn this May 9, 2021, photo, Rev. Joseph Jackson Jr. talks to his congregation at Friendship Missionary Baptist Church in Milwaukee during a service.

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How Black Pharmacists Are Closing The Cultural Gap In Health Care

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community healthcare Urban Faith

WEBIn the 1960s, health care across the Mississippi Delta was sparse and much of it was segregated.Some hospitals were dedicated to Black patients, but they often struggled to …

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community health Urban Faith

WEBIn the 1960s, health care across the Mississippi Delta was sparse and much of it was segregated.Some hospitals were dedicated to Black patients, but they often struggled to …

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The Heart of Reform Urban Faith

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Black seminary grads, with debt higher than others, cope with …

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Health-Care Reform and the Golden Rule Urban Faith

WEBTelling half-truths about health-care reform makes it harder for us to judge Obama’s plan based on the facts. But it also violates one of our greatest biblical precepts. Good will is …

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Hospitals, Insurers Invest Big Dollars to Tackle Patients’ Social …

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The Wall Street Journal: Churches Can Help Reduce Heart Disease

WEBHealth workers operating at faith communities in New York City were able to significantly lower and manage hypertension in black communities

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California’s first surgeon general settles in Urban Faith

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Health is Wealth Urban Faith

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Psychiatrist Stays Close To Home And True To Her Childhood …

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Race Is Often Used as Medical Shorthand for How Bodies Work.

WEBScientists widely agree that race is a social construct, yet it is often conflated with biology, leaving the impression that a person’s race governs how the body functions.

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Phil Galewitz, Kaiser Health News Urban Faith

WEBTrevis Hall, of Fort Washington, Maryland, credits a continuous glucose monitor with helping him get his diabetes under control. Makers of the device say that …

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Cara Anthony, a Kaiser Health News Midwest correspondent

WEBWhen Ashlee Wisdom launched an early version of her health and wellness website, more than 34,000 users — most of them Black — visited the platform in the first …

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Is Black Church Culture Unhealthy

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Do Strong Religious Beliefs Help Cancer Patients Battle the Disease

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Whittington C. Goodwin Urban Faith

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Adelle M. Banks, RNS Urban Faith

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Chelsea Adams, MyCarolinaLife Urban Faith

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Black Churches Fill a Unique Role in Combating Vaccine Fears

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Jesse Lee Patterson Urban Faith

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