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Health Disparities and the Risks of Social Determinants for COVID-19 – 14 Months of Evidence

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suggested social determinants were at play in the disparate outcomes for people of color. For some people such as American Indian and Native Alaskan folks, geography, remoteness, and lack of public health infrastructure are challenges. Analyzing county-level data for 3,142 U.S.

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

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In that introductory editorial, Ending Structural Racism in the US Health Care System to Eliminate Health Care Inequities, Ortega and Roby write that, “3 studies in this issue of JAMA show that access to and utilization of services is not merely predicated on health insurance or the availability of health care.

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Calling Out Health Equity on Martin Luther King Day 2019

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By now, most clued-in Americans know the score on the nation’s collective health status compared to other developed countries: suffice it to say, We’re Still Not #1 for health outcomes, albeit we’re the biggest spender on healthcare, per health citizen, in the world. s, birthday. .