Colorado Passes Landmark Birth Equity Bill Package
This month, activists in Colorado succeeded in passing a sweeping package of bills designed to address inequities in the obstetric system.
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Read more: Intentional Commitments to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Needed in Health Care Intentional Commitments to Diversity, Equity, Inclusion Needed in Health Care
Health care institutions have a responsibility to move from performative to intentional commitment to diversity, equity, and inclusion.
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Read more: Period Poverty and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy Challenges and Opportunities Period Poverty and the COVID-19 Pandemic: Policy Challenges and Opportunities
Period poverty, like so many other health inequities, has gotten worse during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Read more: Bioethics: What Is It Good for? COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Plans and Realities Bioethics: What Is It Good for? COVID-19 Vaccine Allocation Plans and Realities
It is clear that something was lost in the translation of vaccine allocation plans into reality. What went wrong?
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Read more: Can Schools Require the COVID-19 Vaccine? Education, Equity, and the Courts Can Schools Require the COVID-19 Vaccine? Education, Equity, and the Courts
Given the potential legal challenges policymakers may face, legislation to remedy the COVID-19 educational crisis must be carefully drafted.
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Read more: The Cost of Exclusion in Psychedelic Research The Cost of Exclusion in Psychedelic Research
The lack of diversity among research participants can have significant consequences on generalizability and distribution of treatments.
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Read more: Why Justice is Good for America’s Health Why Justice is Good for America’s Health
Among the most salient lessons to be learned from the coronavirus pandemic is that justice is just plain good for America’s health.
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Read more: All-Male Panels, or ‘Manels,’ Must End All-Male Panels, or ‘Manels,’ Must End
In a field that is for and about women, our presence is notably lacking in leadership and professional opportunities.
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Read more: A data set that looks like America A data set that looks like America
By Oliver Kim May marks the annual Asian American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month, which recognizes the history and contributions of this diverse population in the United States. Accounting for that diversity though is one of the challenges facing the Asian American-Pacific Islander (AAPI) community: for example, the Library of Congress commemorative website recognizes that…
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Read more: Housing Equity Week in Review Housing Equity Week in Review
By Temple University Center for Public Health Law Research Here is our weekly round-up of developments from the world of housing law and health. For the week of August 7-14, 2017: HUD released its “Worst Case Housing Needs” report to Congress providing national data and analysis of the problems facing low-income renting families. CityLab offers…