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Study: NYC Black, Latino patients less likely than white patients to use telehealth during pandemic

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Many stakeholders have noted the importance of expanding access to broadband as a fundamental necessity – an endeavor that may run up, as Federal Office of Rural Health Senior Adviser for Telehealth William England put it , a "hundreds-of-billion-dollar" price tag.

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Aspects of Social Determinants of Health: An Introduction

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Medical care is rife with discrimination on the basis of race and gender , particularly toward LGBTQ+ people. Another report from CODE calls for better tagging of data with SDoH. Even more important, he would like laws that prevent discrimination based on lifestyle choices. One of my interviewees said that in the U.S.,

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