Virginia has submitted an application seeking $1 billion in federal funding to transform health care in rural parts of the ...

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 ...

COPD research needs to increase focus on rural health disparities and consider the impact of sociocultural and environmental ...

Treatment innovations in advanced lung cancer and melanoma over the past 2 decades have significantly improved OS, but they ...

Researchers found health system performance is worse for many people of color. Racial and ethnic disparities in health care are evident in every state, even those with robust health systems, according ...

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, ...

By: Esha Sachdev, M.D., breast oncologist, MemorialCare Breast Center at Long Beach Medical Center Breast cancer is never ...

HONOLULU (HawaiiNewsNow) - A new University of Hawaii study has revealed a striking 19-year life expectancy gap among ...

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 ...