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Category: Disparities
Disease Doesn’t Discriminate. America Does. Why COVID-19 is Killing Black People.
With the pandemic throwing the differential experience of Black people in terms of health and health care into sharp relief, the issue may achieve the critical mass of attention necessary to investigate and address some of the deep-seated disparities in a meaningful way. Continue Reading …
Is There Systemic Racism in EMS?
There are clear disparities in prehospital medicine across communities Continue Reading …
Scheduled Dialysis for the Undocumented
Providing schedule dialysis for undocumented immigrants save lives and cuts costs Continue Reading …
Docs Under-Utilizing CT Scans in Brain Injury
Traumatic brain injury (TBI) is a severe, life-threatening presentation resulting from many different clinical conditions. Because treatment and management vary significantly by the underlying cause, computed tomography (CT) imaging studies are necessary to distinguish among the potential pathologies. In a Continue Reading …
Kentucky Eliminates Insurance Disparity
Starting in 2014, Kentucky saw one of the country’s most dramatic reductions in the number of uninsured adults due in large part to the state’s expansion of Medicaid. Prior to the expansions of coverage, Black Kentuckians made up a disproportionate Continue Reading …
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