For the uninsured, crowdfunding provides little help in paying for health care and deepens inequities
Crowdfunding is sometimes touted as a "safety net" for people who can't afford to pay their medical bills.
Feb 3, 2022
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Crowdfunding is sometimes touted as a "safety net" for people who can't afford to pay their medical bills.
Feb 3, 2022
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It's difficult to plan ahead when SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, is so unpredictable. But, there is now a straightforward method for predicting one of the resources needed to slow the spread of COVID-19 in communities. ...
Jan 27, 2022
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Discrimination of the LGBTQ+ community in the United States is well documented, though the public discourse tends to focus on interpersonal acts of bigotry and legislative debates. What has received less attention, however, ...
Jan 27, 2022
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As the COVID-19 pandemic stretches into 2022 and vaccination campaigns continue across the world, individual health behaviors are still a key factor in the risk of COVID-19 diagnosis, according to a new USC study.
Jan 24, 2022
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An estimated 370,000 Californians rely on drinking water that may contain high levels of arsenic, nitrate or hexavalent chromium, and contaminated drinking water disproportionately impact communities of color in the state, ...
Jan 11, 2022
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In 2020, amidst a worldwide pandemic, 580,000 people were experiencing homelessness in the United States, marking the fourth consecutive year that homelessness has increased nationwide, according to data from the U.S. Department ...
Dec 22, 2021
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Dr. Andrew Stokes, assistant professor of global health, is providing mortality data and modeling to the Documenting COVID-19 project and Muckrock in a collaboration that aims to identify the scope of underreported COVID-19 ...
Dec 22, 2021
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The U.S. infant mortality rate continued its downward trend in 2019, but Black babies still died twice as often as white babies, according to a Centers for Disease Control and Prevention report released this week.
Dec 13, 2021
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During the first five months of the pandemic in 2020, low-income communities of color experienced significantly greater increases in firearm violence, homicides and assaults compared to more affluent, white neighborhoods. ...
Dec 9, 2021
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Home health care workers often suffer from poorer physical and mental health, when compared with similar low-wage frontline workers, according to new research by Weill Cornell Medicine.
Dec 8, 2021
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