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Health Disparities in America: JAMA Talks Structural Racism in U.S. Health Care

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They conclude, “the US is consistently the wealthiest country in the world with subpar levels of coverage for a core set of health services; these findings provide additional evidence of the need to reduce disparities.”

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

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At the University of Michigan School of Public Health, I then learned to connect the dots between our environment, our socioeconomic status — especially the role of education — and health. These interrelationships are fundamental to public health thinking. s, birthday. .