by Rich Strater | Aug 2, 2022 | Uncategorized
Report Details Racial and Ethnic Disparities in SC Resulting from COVID-19 Columbia, SC – A recently published COVID-19 impact report details the effects of the pandemic and how one organization worked to provide support to minority populations. Over...
by Rich Strater | Aug 1, 2022 | Uncategorized
African Americans are 50 percent less likely to access or receive palliative care than white patients because of racism, a lack of cultural understanding among physicians and a history of distrust in the health care system among African American patients. As a result,...
by Rich Strater | Jul 19, 2022 | Uncategorized
In a single-institution study reported in JAMA Oncology, Manali I. Patel, MD, MPH, MS, and colleagues found that the addition of a community health worker–led intervention to usual care resulted in reduced use of acute care, increased advance care planning...
by Rich Strater | Jul 11, 2022 | Uncategorized
Global health security is being undermined by the practice of underpaying or not paying female health workers, a report has said. More than six million women are propping up health systems around the world without being paid in full, Women in Global Health reported,...
by Rich Strater | Jul 7, 2022 | Uncategorized
SPRINGFIELD (WGEM) – The Illinois Public Health Association and Illinois Primary Health Care Association helped train 650 people to be health care workers in their communities during the COVID-19 pandemic. These pandemic health navigators served people in 92...
