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

Health Populi

Since the second quarter of 2020, I’ve noticed that JAMA has devoted increasing column inches to the issues of health equity, social determinants of health, and structural racism in U.S. health care.

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Women’s Health Links to Financial Health: International Women’s Day 2020 in Health Context

Health Populi

For women as they more often than men play the role of Chief Household Officer — for home-making, -keeping, and childrearing — these factors play heavily into women’s socio-economic status and health care inequity.

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