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February 1st marked the beginning of Black History Month. The 2023 theme for Black History Month is Black Resistance, an exploration of how African Americans have nurtured and protected Black lives, and fought against historic and current racial inequality. In fact, while Black people have made great contributions and achievements in the United States, they […]
Children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL)Â living in US-Mexico border regions in Texas were more likely to die within 5 years compared with children living in other parts of the state based on data from the Texas Cancer Registry, a study published in Cancer found.1 The US-Mexico border is known to be medically underserved, and survival […]
February 23, 2023 2 min read Source/Disclosures Published by: Source: Odugbesan O, et al. ID 679. Presented at: International Conference on Advanced Technologies & Treatments for Diabetes; Feb. 22-25, 2023; Berlin (hybrid meeting). Disclosures: Ebekozien reports serving as a member of the Medtronic Diabetes Health . . .
John Jay College’s Data Collaborative for Justice Finds Black People were Incarcerated 11.6 Times More than White People in 2021 Recent policy reforms aimed at reducing the disproportionate representation of Black and Brown people in New York City jails have failed to meet that goal. In fact, it’s getting worse, according to a […]
U.S. Department of Health Education and Welfare. Smoking and health: report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Health, Education, and Welfare, Public Health Service. https://www.govinfo.gov/app/details/GPO-SMOKINGANDHEALTH. Published 1964. Accessed October 21, 2022. Holford TR Meza R
A suicide prevention billboard is seen out in front of a high school in Buffalo, Wyo. (Jabin Botsford/Washington Post via Getty Images) Data released Friday from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention showed that after a two-year decline in the number of suicides in the United States, those deaths went back up in 2021 […]
A new study has found that predominantly White neighborhoods had more green spaces, fewer dilapidated buildings, and more single-family homes compared with neighborhoods with mostly Black residents or other minoritized racial or ethnic groups. This observational study was published in Jama Network Open. “Large datasets on determinants of health can help us better understand the […]
Reading Time: 5 minutes The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law, signed by President Biden last November, is pouring billions of dollars into an upgrade of the country’s aging water infrastructure. But a new study has found that white communities have been favored in distribution of the funds, something that’s controlled by individual states. The majority of the […]
The article was presented at the Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management 2021 Fall Conference (virtual), March 28, 2022; the AcademyHealth 2022 Annual Research Meeting in Washington, D.C., June 7, 2022; and the 11th Annual Conference of the American Society of Health Economists in Austin, Texas, June 29, 2022. Sujoy Chakravarty has received funding […]
Hispanic Americans with multiple myeloma (MM) face disparities in treatment, clinical trial enrollment, and mortality risk, among other factors, which may be exacerbated by lower socioeconomic status (SES). Results were published in a systematic review published in Clinical Hematology International. Characterized as the largest and fastest-growing minority group in the United States, individuals of . […]