A new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests that growing up in poverty may influence the wiring of a child's brain.
Jun 27, 2023
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Experts are calling on the government to continue focusing on "leveling-up" health, arguing that reducing the health gap is too important an agenda to abandon.
Sep 30, 2022
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Ensuring COVID-19 vaccine access for refugee and displaced populations, and addressing health inequities, is vital for an effective pandemic response. Yet, vaccine allocation and distribution has been neither equitable nor ...
Apr 20, 2021
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The provision of joint replacement surgery in England is subject to socio-economic inequalities, despite a years-long effort to reduce them. A study of hip and knee surgeries over a ten-year period, published April 27 in ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Sandra Pico is poor, but not poor enough. She makes about $15,000 a year, supporting her daughter and unemployed husband. She thought she'd get health insurance after the Supreme Court this year upheld President Barack Obama's ...
Aug 14, 2012
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The burden of diabetes in pregnancy has grown substantially in the Northern Territory (NT) over three decades and is contributing to more babies being born at higher than expected birthweights according to a new study.
Jul 27, 2020
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The pandemic has exposed troubling inequities in the United States that have left Black and Hispanic people at higher risk of dying from COVID-19—and getting a smaller share of vaccines.
Apr 16, 2021
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The World Health Organization's emergency committee said Monday it was against international travellers being required to have proof of vaccination, partly on grounds such a measure would deepen inequities.
Apr 19, 2021
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Higher levels of cognitive ability could help protect people from socially disadvantaged backgrounds from increased risk of mental health issues—but health inequality remains a major issue, new research has found.
Oct 31, 2018
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University of Minnesota School of Public Health Assistant Professor Dana Mowls Carroll co-authored a recent commentary in Preventive Medicine on how commercial tobacco policies contribute to inequities, including the unequal ...
Jul 19, 2022
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