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...
by Rich Strater | Jun 29, 2022 | Uncategorized
Kansas has recently taken steps to create additional support for community health workers (CHWs) and the care they provide for communities around the state. “This year, the Kansas Department of Health and Environment announced a new certification for these...
