Posts Tagged ‘Social Determinants of Health’
Clean Socks Are Simple Way to Reach Patients Experiencing Homelessness
Upstream healthcare solutions are critical, but this essential need offers preventative treatment and relationship-building crucial to patient care.
Read MoreU.S. Formula Shortage Exposes Deep-Rooted Injustices Across Industries
The infant formula shortage has impacted all babies who need it, but families who access WIC programs bear the brunt.
Read MoreAbortion Is Health Care: Access is Crucial
BMC reaffirms unwavering commitment to maintaining reproductive justice.
Read MoreHow to Close the Racial Disparity Gap in HIV Diagnoses and Treatment
Compassionate, culturally competent care for preventing HIV reduces infection rates in marginalized communities.
Read MoreTackling Racial Bias in Health Care Key Factor in Determining COVID-19 Outcomes
Recent study validates predictive models for COVID-19 outcomes that incorporate social determinants of health.
Read MoreReducing Racial Disparities in Living Donor Kidney Donation
How BMC is addressing the gap of living donor kidney transplantation amongst Black Americans.
Read MoreWhat Are Social Determinants of Health?
“We recognize that until we can reduce the negative impact of a person’s environment, we can’t get them healthy,” says David Henderson.
Read MoreWhy BMCHS Just Launched Its Health Equity Accelerator
The new Accelerator works to eliminate the barriers that perpetuate injustice in healthcare and ensures that everyone can live a healthy life, regardless of their race or ethnicity.
Read MoreOne Patient’s Journey Underscored Inequities in Ear, Nose, and Throat Health
BMC resident Joseph Sabra, who treated the patient, says otolaryngologists must study social determinants of health that create barriers to care.
Read MoreFamilies Take the Driver’s Seat in BMC’s Holistic Pediatric Care Program
BMC’s Center for the Urban Child and Healthy family tailors pediatric primary care to address their families’ needs, like financial counseling, to transform their health.
Black Girls Who Experience Abuse Are at Risk for Sleep Disorders as Women
A new study shows that as the severity of childhood abuse increases among Black girls, so do sleep disorders as adult women—which affect physical and mental health.
For Better Birth Outcomes, We Need to Prevent Housing Evictions
Stopping housing evictions of pregnant women and addressing inequities that lead to them could improve newborn health, leading to lifelong and intergenerational benefits.
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