Health equity and health equality both aim to improve outcomes and increase access to services, especially for underserved populations and marginalized groups. Equity and equality in healthcare are ...

Health equity means ensuring everyone has the chance to be as healthy as possible. However, factors outside of a person’s control can prevent them from achieving their best health. Examples of these ...

Gilbert Gee and Annie Ro depict systemic racism as the hidden base of an iceberg 10 (see illustration in online appendix exhibit 1). 11 The iceberg’s visible part represents the overt racism that ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. NEW ORLEANS (WGNO) — One of the prizes of ...

No one can deny that health inequities are a global issue. The United States, despite decades of progress, has one of the highest rates of health disparities in the world. Our health care system is ...

President Donald Trump’s administration has dramatically reshaped health and medical research by rolling back federal funding ...

Anne N. Sosin ([email protected]), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song, Dartmouth College. Health equity efforts in rural places have grown in recent years; however, ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American Health care disparities can lead to drastic ...

Taneia Surles is health and wellness writer and public health professional that has been creating health and wellness content since 2020. Her writing has covered several verticals, including sexual ...