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Yonkers event calls attention to disparities' impact on Black maternal health
Lohud | The Journal News via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agoThe idea that day-to-day racism impacts people’s health was introduced by Dr. Arline Geronimus in...
New York fares high on state health equity scorecard, but disparities remain for residents of color
The Buffalo News· 1 day agoNew York State has less severe racial and ethnic health inequities than other mid-Atlantic states,...
Massachusetts Department of Public Health Announces New Initiative to Advance Racial Equity | JD...
JD Supra· 2 weeks agoHafsatou Diop, MD, MPH, presented DPH’s Strategic Plan to Advance Racial Equity. Declaring racism an urgent public health threat, Dr. Diop re-iterated DPH ...
How is President Biden closing the gap on health disparities for communities of color?
Erie Times-News· 2 weeks agoApril is Minority Health Month, a time to acknowledge and raise awareness about health disparities...
How Environmental Racism Continues to Burden the Health of Underserved Communities
Health.com· 3 days agoEnvironmental racism is a form of systemic racism that occurs when Black, Indigenous, and other...
Study shows rising child mortality in the US has the most impact on Black and Native American youth
Medical Xpress· 9 hours agoDeath rates among young Americans had been in decline for decades thanks to breakthroughs in...
VOICES: Eliminating minority community health disparities can improve health outcomes for all
Dayton Daily News· 1 week agoDuring April’s Minority Health Month, Public Health – Dayton & Montgomery County is working...
Do implicit bias trainings on race improve health care? Not yet – but incorporating the latest...
The Conversation via Yahoo News· 2 weeks agohealth care, and lawmakers are taking note. Since the tragic murder of George Floyd in May 2020,...
NIH’s Eliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, Talks Health Disparities, Biology, Behavior, and Culture
WebMD· 2 weeks agoEliseo Pérez-Stable, MD, is director of the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) at the National Institutes of ...
'Safety bundles' may reduce pregnancy-related deaths, particularly among Black women
The News-Times· 18 hours agoA woman begins losing blood during childbirth. Excessive blood loss is the leading cause of death for women on the day they give birth and one of the leading causes of maternal death in the ...