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

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An interesting model to consider of a pharmacy taking on a role in bolstering social determinants for good health is a venture announced this week between Walgreens and Highmark: a pharmacy and a health insurance organization.

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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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Patients, Health Consumers, People, Citizens: Who Are We In America?

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The paper that asserts “no” to the question comes from Michael Gusmano, Karen Maschke, and Mildred Solomon, all associated with the Hastings Center which does research into bioethics. Taken together, these four papers from Health Affairs lead to the following themes: By 2019, patients in the U.S.

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