Now Is the Time for a Sex-Based Civil Rights Movement in Health Care
The Biden administration and all three branches of government are poised to finally deliver a sex-based civil rights movement in health care.
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Read more: The Future of Medicine Post-COVID: Not a Healthy Outlook for Women The Future of Medicine Post-COVID: Not a Healthy Outlook for Women
The COVID-19 pandemic has exacerbated long-standing gender inequities in academic medicine.
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Read more: Scope Creep: Serving Many Roles, Health Care Providers Need a Supporting Cast Scope Creep: Serving Many Roles, Health Care Providers Need a Supporting Cast
We need help. If we don’t receive this supporting cast, there might not be anyone left to play the role of health care provider.
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Read more: The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19 The Politics of CDC Public Health Guidance During COVID-19
In recent months, public health guidance from the CDC has become a site of political reckoning.
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Read more: COVID-19 Highlights the Vital Connection Between Food and Health COVID-19 Highlights the Vital Connection Between Food and Health
Together, food insecurity and COVID-19 have proven to be a deadly combination for Black and Brown people.
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Read more: Overworked, Overlooked, and Unprotected: Domestic Workers and COVID-19 Overworked, Overlooked, and Unprotected: Domestic Workers and COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected domestic workers, such as home health care workers, house cleaners, and child care workers.
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Read more: Book Review: Mary Ziegler’s ‘Abortion and the Law in America’ Book Review: Mary Ziegler’s ‘Abortion and the Law in America’
If you want to understand our politics of abortion, you must read Mary Ziegler’s recent book, “Abortion and the Law in America: Roe v. Wade to the Present.”
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Read more: COVID-19 Immunity as Passport to Work Will Increase Economic Inequality COVID-19 Immunity as Passport to Work Will Increase Economic Inequality
A focus on immunity as a yardstick for return to work will only serve to widen the gulf of economic inequality in the U.S.
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Read more: Unequal Representation: Race, Sex, and Trust in Medicine — COVID-19 and Beyond Unequal Representation: Race, Sex, and Trust in Medicine — COVID-19 and Beyond
The COVID-19 pandemic has given renewed importance and urgency to the need for racial and gender diversity in clinical trials.
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Read more: Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Medical Records Can Reduce Disparities Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity in Medical Records Can Reduce Disparities
It’s time to require sexual orientation and gender identity data collection in electronic health records nationwide.
