How Telehealth Could Improve — or Worsen — Racial Disparities
While telehealth may be a panacea for access to healthcare, particularly in COVID times, we should be concerned that patients of color may be left behind.
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Read more: Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and the Contested Scope of Public Health Law Structural Racism, Social Determinants, and the Contested Scope of Public Health Law
Debates exist over whether structural racism is a social determinant of health, and whether dismantling it is within the scope of public health law.
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Read more: Addressing Racism through Medical-Legal Partnerships Addressing Racism through Medical-Legal Partnerships
Considering the cross-cutting nature of racism as a social determinant of health, medical-legal partnerships can and should address it directly.
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Read more: How Social Movements Shape the Law to Address Health Disparities How Social Movements Shape the Law to Address Health Disparities
Scholarship on the social determinants of health is missing an account of how communities change the legal environments that produce poor health outcomes.
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Read more: Structural Racism: The Root Cause of the Social Determinants of Health Structural Racism: The Root Cause of the Social Determinants of Health
Government and public health officials must aggressively work to end structural racism and revise laws that create racial inequalities.
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Read more: Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A New Digital Symposium Understanding the Role of Race in Health: A New Digital Symposium
Today, medicine and the health care system embody discourses of power that rival the law. Will these discourses inevitably serve to oppress BIPOC?
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Read more: Ugandan Court Decision Enshrines Access to Basic Maternal Health Care as a Right Ugandan Court Decision Enshrines Access to Basic Maternal Health Care as a Right
In its judgment, the Court directed the Government of Uganda to prioritize and provide sufficient funds in the national budget for maternal health care.
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Read more: New Report Assesses Legal Responses to COVID-19 New Report Assesses Legal Responses to COVID-19
Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19 is an in-depth analysis of the U.S. legal and policy responses to the pandemic.
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Read more: Hospitals Bear the Costs of Detention and Incarceration Hospitals Bear the Costs of Detention and Incarceration
While individuals with recent criminal justice involvement represent only 4.2% of the population, they make up 8.5% of emergency department expenditures.
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Read more: The Long and Winding Road of NHS Complaints System Reform The Long and Winding Road of NHS Complaints System Reform
Despite several reports published over two and half decades detailing the challenges the complaint system faces, it still is not fit for purpose.
