Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Socioeconomic disadvantages may explain a proportion of disparities in health care utilization parameters after ...

Ahead of World Stroke Day, Oct. 29, investigators from the Department of Neurology at Cedars-Sinai have new information on stroke-related health disparities. In a study published in the peer-reviewed ...

As a shy undergraduate at Harvard University in the late sixties, Constance Hilliard butted heads with the stodgy chairman of the history department. Convinced that there were untold stories buried in ...

A new evidence-based framework aims to establish a U.S. industry standard for measuring health equity efforts. Put out by the Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI), the white paper has been in ...

Identifying and addressing disparities among people living with lupus ensures communities with the highest burden of disease, like racial and ethnic minorities, receive equitable opportunities for ...

Industrial emissions of carcinogens disproportionately impact certain people and may contribute to cancer disparities. Differences in exposure to industrial emissions of carcinogens may help explain ...

High blood pressure means faster slide into signs of dementia or Alzheimer's, but does not explain the overall disparity between Hispanic/Latino people and non-Hispanic people in dementia risk. People ...

Racism, xenophobia and discrimination have a profound impact on health but are largely overlooked and erroneously dismissed with low-quality science, according to a series of papers published in the ...

Racial disparities in cardiac arrest survival are not due to early DNAR orders, as survival rates were similar across racial groups with early DNAR orders. American Indian or Alaska Native, Black, and ...