Health
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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American Journal of Public Health
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Why simple can be better when determining how to allocate pandemic resources
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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Health
Queering environmental justice
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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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
To reduce COVID-19 risk, individual distancing makes a difference
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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Health
Study: Safe drinking water remains out of reach for many Californians
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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Health
Homelessness increases serious illness, emergency room visits during heat waves
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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Medical research
Nationwide reporting venture to reveal COVID's hidden deaths
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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Pediatrics
Health of Black, Native moms key in fight to improve infant death disparities, experts say
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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Health
Violence increased most in marginalized neighborhoods early in the COVID-19 pandemic
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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Health
Home health care workers face challenges with their own health
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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