Seeking heath equity means striving to give everyone a fair opportunity to be as healthy as possible by working to eliminate health disparities and determinants that adversely affect certain groups.
Three major challenges confront public health: inequality, the climate crisis, and political instability. Four domains of recommendations, formulated to respond to the inequality–pandemic cycle, form ...
Panelists at SLEEP 2023 presented preliminary data on how sleep interventions could close the gap in treating Black children and families in sleep health. Gaps in knowledge about sleep in Black ...
The federal government ended the COVID-19 public health emergency in May but this decision won’t change how we are currently living our post-pandemic lives. Instead, it should give us a moment to ...
– The companies and organizations that comprise the Healthcare Leadership Council (HLC), representing all sectors of the American healthcare industry, have joined in a commitment to advance health ...
In the current age of healthcare, it is not enough to simply provide every patient with the same level of care. Healthcare providers and other stakeholders must actively prioritize health equity ...
In October of 2021, the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation (CMMI) unveiled its 2030 vision to achieve “equitable outcomes through high quality, ...
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services wants input on how to address access and equity in Medicaid. ((Getty/designer491)) The Biden administration is seeking feedback on ways to improve access ...
Systemic racism remains a significant challenge in efforts to address health disparities in childhood asthma. A new American Thoracic Society report provides practical frameworks to begin the research ...
Recently, many state legislatures have used preemption to curtail local authority and promote agendas that are detrimental to population health and health equity. Structural change is necessary to ...
How do we enlist companies to engage, dedicate resources, and collaborate with public entities and even other private enterprises to create a mental health equity moonshot? The scale of this crisis is ...