by Jordana Choucair | Feb 4, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
Yesterday, the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF) and the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) co-hosted a webinar examining persistent racial disparities in cancer care. A panel of oncologists, a patient advocate, and policy researchers discussed how inequities...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 25, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
Public Citizen is pushing Pfizer to make its COVID-19 antiviral pill more broadly available in lower-income countries to address the existing global inequities in access to vaccines and treatments. The advocacy group argued in a letter to Pfizer Chief Executive Albert...
by Jordana Choucair | Jan 7, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A new analysis from the Urban Institute found that parents in low-income households (at or below 138 percent of federal poverty level) face greater challenges in addressing health needs than other parents. Parents in low-income households were more than nine times as...
by Jordana Choucair | Dec 16, 2021 | Inequities and SDOH
Third Horizon Strategies (THS) announced the launch of The Health Equity Project – a national coalition of individuals, organizations, policy leaders, and investors seeking to transform the nation’s health care and social safety net systems to improve equitable access...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 19, 2021 | Inequities and SDOH
A new Commonwealth Fund report found that Black Americans in almost every state were more likely than white Americans to die from preventable and treatable health conditions. Only six states – Massachusetts, Connecticut, Rhode Island, New York, Hawaii, and...
by Jordana Choucair | Nov 5, 2021 | Inequities and SDOH
The National Institutes of Health has started collecting data for one initiative in their All of Us project research program, focused on understanding more about the social determinants of health (SDOH). Respondents will share information on neighborhood safety,...
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