Health Equity

National Comprehensive Cancer Network’s Health Equity Report Card tool demonstrated high usability for helping health providers and organizations identify and address health care inequities and barriers, according to preliminary findings.

A 2020 McKinsey survey showed 84% of respondents have experienced workplace microaggressions, with additional challenges reported among women, individuals from historically underrepresented groups and members of the LGBTQ+ community.

Decreasing comorbidities and increasing vaccination rates among Black, indigenous and other people of color could help balance out symptomatic infection rates, according to a modeling study assessing interventions in these communities.

Black and Native Hawaiian or other Pacific Islander patients with early-onset colorectal cancer had higher risk for mortality compared with white patients, with data supporting the role of social determinants of health in those differences.

CHICAGO — In this Healio video exclusive, Bayo Curry-Winchell, MD, and Elizabeth Powell, MD, discuss the importance of women’s health advocacy at the Women in Medicine Summit.

Medical Group Management Association has awarded Disha Sawhney, FACHDM, FRSPH, with the 2024 Future Five Award.

Patients who reside in socioeconomically deprived neighborhoods have a higher chance to present with more severe rhegmatogenous retinal detachment, according to a study.

Editor’s Note: This is part one of a three-part Healio Exclusive series on the development and use of AI to improve clinical outcomes in cardiovascular medicine and considerations for regulatory labeling and patient privacy .

Rates of liver-related mortality increased by 19.1% from 2018 to 2021 and varied “several-fold” between states, underscoring the need for improved access to liver transplantation regardless of location, according to researchers.

A combination of several factors makes it tough for providers to identify measles cases as the disease makes a comeback, according to experts.