Health Equity

South Carolina’s Bold Maternal Health Experiment Disappoints

A large randomized trial showed home visits from nurses for pregnant people did not improve their or their babies’ health outcomes.

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Girls Are in a Mental Health Crisis. What Can Schools Do?

Girls in the U.S. are experiencing record high levels of violence, sadness and suicide risk. How can schools help girls of color navigate this crisis?

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Putting a Price Tag on Patients’ Social Needs

A study in JAMA Internal Medicine calculates the cost of fully meeting the social needs of primary care patients – and finds the current system falls short.

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What Gas Stoves, Minimum Wage Laws and the Military Teach Us About Health Policy

We get a sneak peek at some of the most exciting papers coming out of a major health economics conference.

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New Insights into Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities

Soleil interviews health economist Jevay Grooms about the NBER’s 2023 Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities conference.

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Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 2

The Biden administration is proposing new regulations to keep racial bias in AI from getting to the bedside.

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Rooting Out Racial Bias in Health Care AI, Part 1

Artificial intelligence could revolutionize health care. It could also perpetuate and exacerbate generations of racial inequities.

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A Conversation about Disability and Health with Lisa Iezzoni

Soleil interviews Harvard researcher Lisa Iezzoni about improving health care for people with disabilities.

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How a Medicare Payment Fix Could Worsen Disparities

A potential change to reduce upcoding in Medicare could worsen health disparities.

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The Push to Bring Medicaid Behind Bars

People leaving incarceration are at extremely high risk of hospitalization and death, and some states think Medicaid could help.

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