by Jordana Choucair | Jul 26, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
The House Education and Labor Committee will markup a bill Wednesday intended to feed more children in communities with high poverty rates. The bill would reauthorize a child nutrition program that expired in 2015 and lower the criteria for a school or school district...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 25, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
Morgan Health and NORC at the University of Chicago released an analysis revealing that Americans with employer-sponsored health coverage face significant inequities by race and ethnicity while managing complex health conditions. According to the analysis, Black...
by Jordana Choucair | Jul 5, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A study published in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that addressing social needs like housing, food security, and transportation could reduce hospital inpatient admission rates by 11 percent and emergency department visits by 4 percent. The intervention...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 30, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A new analysis found that maternal mortality rates rose substantially during the COVID-19 pandemic, with deaths disproportionately impacting Hispanic and Black women. According to the National Center for Health Statistics, maternal mortality rates increased 18.4...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 28, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
The American College of Physicians released a paper declaring inadequate access to nutrition a threat to public health in the U.S. The organization stated that physicians and other medical professionals need to be empowered to better account for social determinants of...
by Jordana Choucair | Jun 24, 2022 | Inequities and SDOH
A new Deloitte analysis predicts that disparate health outcomes could cost the U.S. health care system $1 trillion annually by 2040, nearly tripling in size over the next 20 years and accounting for nearly 12.5 percent of health care spending. According to the...
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