Nine out of ten hospital executives name health equity among their core business priorities. However, funding, reimbursement, and pandemic-related disruption remain major barriers to implementation.

The American Lung Association has established a campaign to boost the inclusion of Black individuals in lung cancer clinical trials.

High poverty rates and environmental factors contribute to the rates of intestinal infections, and a recent study found low-income neighborhoods are infected at high rates where sewage systems are in disrepair, The Conversation reported May 19.

Aurora-based Children's Hospital Colorado partnered with the Aurora Housing Authority to provide long-term housing to 20 of its patients, CBS News reported May 21.

The best resource to improve health equity is already embedded in the U.S. healthcare system: family physicians. But they cannot do the work alone, Tochi Iroku-Malize, MD, wrote in an opinion piece published May 17 in U.S. News and World Report.

In the last two decades, the Black American population had 1.63 million excess deaths relative to their white counterparts, according to research published May 16 in JAMA led by Yale University in New Haven, Conn.

The price tag of inequities in healthcare cost the U.S. economy more than $451 billion annually, according to a study published May 16 in JAMA and led by the National Institutes of Health. 

Children's hospitals and other pediatric healthcare providers are working to identify and dismantle discriminatory care practices that fuel racial health disparities, according to a May 9 article from The Commonwealth Fund.

In advance of launching its Health Care Equity Certification on July 1, The Joint Commission rolled out an online resource center to assist healthcare systems in earning the certification.

Restrictive instructions for EEGs could discourage people with thick, curly or textured hair from undergoing the diagnostic test, KFF Health News reported April 27. 

More than one in five U.S. adults missed or skipped needed medical care in 2022 because they could not access a vehicle or public transportation, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation found in a new analysis. 

Life expectancy is higher among Black people living in areas of the U.S. that have a higher proportion of Black primary care physicians, a study published April 14 in JAMA Network Open found.

Efforts to achieve health equity have been underway for more than two decades. And yet, their effects have only been "marginal," according to a recent report from accounting firm Ernst & Young. 

The Biden administration and HHS outlined plans to improve Black maternal health — which has long suffered from inequities both in healthcare and the workforce due to systemic racism. 

When I delivered my children in 2016 and 2018, I was afraid. I was there as a patient, but as a physician, I knew the data.

Health Equity has become a key priority for healthcare organizations, validated in the Becker’s/TruLite 2022 Benchmark Survey, and they are increasingly aware of the repercussions of inequities on patient health outcomes, incremental expenses and reduced revenues.

As we observe National Minority Health Month, it is a good time to reinforce our belief that everyone deserves high-quality healthcare and healthy communities.

We are experiencing a health crisis in Black and brown communities across the United States that is ravaging our neighborhoods and leading to unimaginable loss for many families. 

The Industry’s First Health Equity Platform Company Teams Up with Top-Ranked Medical School and Health Equity Leader to Create a Curriculum for Health Equity Coaches

As COVID-19 raged on in early 2020, disproportionately affecting communities of color, New Haven, Conn.-based Yale physicians and professors joined together to form the Infectious Diseases Diversity, Equity and Antiracism consortium to address systemic racism and medical mistrust within the field.