“Health and wealth are intricately connected,” says Thea James, MD, MBA, co-executive director of Boston Medical Center’s Health Equity Accelerator and vice president of Mission, in a new short branded film from the MassMutual Foundation. The video is part of...
The Bottom Line Exposure to community or domestic violence has an enormous effect on a child’s health. Evidence-based interventions — like the expanded Child Tax Credit, continuous Medicaid enrollment, and hospital-based violence prevention programs, such as...
One in five high school students is likely to be chronically absent, meaning they miss more than 14 school days in the school year. The COVID-19 pandemic served as a catalyst to an already growing problem of chronic absenteeism, leading to an increase from 8 million...
In 2021, I was the lead author on a paper coining the term “antipoverty medicine.” Our thought was that because of the strong evidence that poverty affects biology, it’s vital to treat it as a true medical concern. As we wrote, poverty is a grave...
The Bottom Line Children who have at least one parent incarcerated are statistically less likely to access healthcare and use the care system, which researchers attribute to barriers such as losing their health insurance and having fewer caregivers to help them make...
