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: Expendable Lives and COVID-19 Expendable Lives and COVID-19
Medical neocolonialism does not exist in a vacuum. It is tied to the presumed expendability of Black life.
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Read more: The Two Pandemics Facing Asian Americans: COVID-19 and Xenophobia The Two Pandemics Facing Asian Americans: COVID-19 and Xenophobia
During the COVID-19 pandemic, instead of trying to extinguish racist attitudes, the Trump administration has spearheaded ways to “other” Asian Americans.
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Read more: A Look at Florida’s Decade-Long Effort to Curb the Opioid Epidemic A Look at Florida’s Decade-Long Effort to Curb the Opioid Epidemic
Over the years, Florida has implemented legal and regulatory responses to the opioid epidemic that have been met with both success and continued challenges.
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Read more: Racial Inclusivity in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials Racial Inclusivity in COVID-19 Vaccine Trials
African Americans know, perhaps the most, what it means to be the first to be heavily recruited yet neglected by biomedicine.
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Read more: Jails and COVID-19: An Overlooked Public Health Crisis in Philadelphia Jails and COVID-19: An Overlooked Public Health Crisis in Philadelphia
Jails and prisons have continuously struggled to stop the spread of COVID-19 cases. Philadelphia offers an unfortunate case study.
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Read more: COVID-19 and the ‘Essential’ Yet Underappreciated Front-Line Health Care Worker COVID-19 and the ‘Essential’ Yet Underappreciated Front-Line Health Care Worker
On the front lines of the coronavirus pandemic response, there is an often forgotten workforce that is largely Black and Brown and female.
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Read more: How Telehealth Can Reduce Disparities How Telehealth Can Reduce Disparities
Telehealth can reduce barriers to care, such as lack of access to transportation, culturally-competent providers, and childcare.
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Read more: Great Responsibility: Navigating Moral Hazards During COVID-19 Great Responsibility: Navigating Moral Hazards During COVID-19
”Indemnifying Precaution” explores how to align costs and benefits so that individuals of all ages adhere to precautions.
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Read more: New TWIHL: Equity in All Policies with Sarah de Guia New TWIHL: Equity in All Policies with Sarah de Guia
With special guest Sarah de Guia, CEO of ChangeLab Solutions. Sarah is an author on a new report titled Assessing Legal Responses to COVID-19.
