Health disparities or health inequalities are preventable differences in health outcomes in groups or populations as a result of social structure, access to services and infrastructure, disease burden ...

Between June 2020 and January 2021, the age-adjusted COVID-19 mortality rate among American Indian and Alaska Native people ...

Elizabeth Cooney is a cardiovascular disease reporter at STAT, covering heart, stroke, and metabolic conditions. You can reach Liz on Signal at LizC.22. Last week’s election results may signal ...

Health disparities are often linked to six major social determinants of barriers. Health disparities are often linked to six major social determinants of barriers.

For many health-related behaviors and outcomes, racial and ethnic disparities among adolescents are well documented, but less is known about health-related disparities during preadolescence. We ...

NEW YORK - CBS News uncovered data that shows disparities in school funding. In many cases, districts with large populations of minority students tended to receive less state money. In Suffolk County, ...

Racial and ethnic disparities in food insecurity persist in the United States. In this report, we highlight the emerging research from our Philadelphia site that documents differences in food ...

Current approaches to health care quality have failed to reduce health care disparities. Despite dramatic increases in the use of quality measurement and associated payment policies, there has been no ...

The US HIV/AIDS Strategy and Ending the HIV Epidemic (EHE) initiatives aim to reduce HIV transmission by 90% by 2030 through targeted care and prevention initiatives such as the Undetectable = ...