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Promoting Health Equity: Why Access to Care Is an Essential Component
As serious systemic inequities have come into focus in recent years, health equity is top of mind for many of today’s healthcare leaders. This includes providing high reliability care (i.e., patient care that is consistently excellent and safe over long periods across all services and settings), addressing social determinants of health, increasing the diversity of healthcare leadership, and more. -
HHS invests $3M in Black youth mental health
HHS, through its Office of Minority Health, announced more than $3 million in grants Sept. 21 to eight organizations for a new initiative promoting Black youth mental health. -
4 recent health equity investments over $10M
Here are four health equity investments over $10 million that Becker's has covered since Aug. 30: -
NYU Langone Health's OB-GYN department appoints 1st DEI vice chair
New York City-based NYU Langone Health appointed Garfield Clunie, MD, as its inaugural diversity, equity and inclusion vice chair for the department of obstetrics and gynecology Sept. 20, Longview News Journal reported. -
Social determinants of health tied to disproportionate dementia rates among minority groups, study says
Research ties poor social determinants of health and health equity issues to disproportionate rates of dementia in minority populations, according to the National Institute on Aging. Furthermore, Alzheimer's disease and other dementia disproportionately affect older Black and Hispanic Americans compared to older white Americans, according to the Alzheimer's Association. -
OurCrowd partners with WHO to launch $200M global health equity fund
Venture firm OurCrowd is partnering with the World Health Organization to launch a $200 million global health equity fund. -
UNC Health taps Dr. Nicole Mushonga as system executive director for health equity
Chapel Hill, N.C.-based UNC Health appointed Nicole Mushonga, MD, as its system executive director for health equity Sept. 15. -
CDC sets aside monkeypox vaccines for high-risk Black, Hispanic populations
About 50,000 Jynneos monkeypox vaccines will go toward populations that are less likely to be vaccinated and face barriers to access, according to the CDC. -
A quarter of Americans are in favor of requiring insurers to cover gender-affirming care: Pew Research study
Around a quarter of Americans say insurance companies should be required to cover gender-affirming care, Pew Research Center found. -
Maryland health system invests $14M in minority-led organizations
Baltimore-based University of Maryland Medical System has committed $14 million to address disparities including economic development and food insecurity in its service areas. More than half its investees are Baltimore-focused, and 75 percent of are Black-led or Black- and woman-led. -
BCBS Rhode Island designates 3 providers as LGBTQ 'safe zones'
Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Rhode Island said Sept. 13 it has designated 21 healthcare facilities across three providers as "LGBTQ Safe Zones," or providers with services and staff trained specifically for LGBTQ patients. -
Gilead awards $20M to health equity organizations
The Gilead Foundation awarded $20 million Sept. 13 to an inaugural group of 13 organizations working to advance health through education equity. -
YouTube, Kaiser Family Foundation partner on health equity campaign
YouTube has partnered with the Kaiser Family Foundation to launch a new program to help nonprofit organizations create educational videos about health inequities in mental health, maternal care and health access. -
Mental health inequities cost US $278B from 2016-20
A lack of investment in mental healthcare has taken nearly 117,000 lives and cost the U.S. $278 billion from 2016 to 2020, a Sept. 8 report from the Satcher Health Leadership Institute at Atlanta-based Morehouse School of Medicine found. -
Current medical coding system doesn't account for needs of trans patients, advocates say
Some transgender patients are denied reimubrsements for gender-affirming care by insurers because of diagnostic coding, according to a Kaiser Health News report. -
AMA awards scholarships to study issues affecting female physicians
The American Medical Association's Women Physicians Section and the AMA Foundation have selected the recipients of their annual research grants program, according to a Sept. 7 news release. -
'What you do is listen first': Dr. Joyce Sackey on stepping into Stanford Medicine's inaugural chief diversity and inclusion officer role
Health equity has been on the forefront of Joyce Sackey's, MD, mind since a very young age. Growing up in Ghana, she observed an uneven distribution of and access to healthcare, which stimulated both her drive to help others and an interest in medicine. -
CDC awards $600K to address bias toward rural, senior patients
The University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and the Arkansas health department are partnering to address unconscious biases in healthcare workers, using a $600,000 grant from the CDC. -
6 recent health equity study findings
Here are six health equity studies that Becker's has covered since June 24: -
Washington U researchers granted $6.1M for maternal health study
Three researchers from the Brown School and the School of Medicine at Washington University in St. Louis received a $6.1 million grant from the National Institutes of Health Sept. 1 to study maternal health.
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