On Sunday’s episode of The Excerpt podcast: Earlier this year, a study published in The Lancet Child & Adolescent Health journal found widespread racial and ethnic disparities in medical care ...

What do we know about the disparities that exist in maternal health care here in New Hampshire? ... Sometimes they shared challenging interactions with health care staff. So we have a few quotes.

Substantive disparities exist in health-care outcomes in the United States—across a variety of demographic and socioeconomic lines––alongside ongoing debates about their causes and how ...

As Bowman sparred with Republican Marc Short, former Vice President Mike Pence’s chief of staff, he drew a link between recent acts of racial and political violence and rhetorical attacks against ...

In 2018, Health in Her HUE was founded by Ashlee Wisdom to help Black women receive better healthcare through providers who hear and understand their experiences.

Noguchi quotes Dr. Altha Stewart, the first Black President of the American Psychiatric Association, as pointing out that there is a scarcity of Black mental health professionals working in the US.

Such young children are in the most critical years of child development, and food insecurity threatens their development, health and wellbeing. Also, inequality clearly plays a role in the rate of ...

Together we can solve food insecurity and health disparities in West Tennessee | Opinion Here's how we can break the cycle of food insecurity and create a ripple of hope that touches every corner ...

Other countries in Europe, most notably the U.K. and Ireland, are starting to collect racial data and employ it in efforts to combat racism. The UN has asked Portugal to do so as well.

The economic toll of health inequities for people of color in Massachusetts is at least $5.9 billion a year, according to a new study that aims to make a financial case for ending disparities ...