Thought leaders in philosophy, ethics, the arts, and community organizing come together in this four-part interview series to reflect on the role that trust plays in health care.
In honor of World AIDS Day, and in alignment with AcademyHealth and the Weitzman Institute’s commitment to center the voices of lived experiences, this blog highlights patient/patient partners’ perspectives on challenges that patients living with HIV/AIDs experience in obtaining oral health care.
Diverse definitions of rurality among government agencies make it difficult to understand rural health. Standardizing definitions and collecting data on disparities within and between rural communities are important for researchers to better inform policy and practice.
The goal of this study is to improve the understanding of pre-hospital delays for cancer diagnoses in rural, impoverished settings with racially diverse, un-, and under-insured individuals.
The goal of this project is to determine if and how coverage uncertainty among insured populations accounts for delays in diagnosing cancer and explain a portion of ethnic/racial disparities in late-stage cancer diagnoses.
The goal of this study is to improve Emergency Medical Services (EMS) care and patient outcomes through programs informed by factors associated with failure to recognize stroke in the pre-hospital setting.
The goal of the study is to estimate the extent to which racial disparities exist in pediatric severe sepsis/septic shock outcomes and to understand how appraisal and help-seeking behaviors may differ by race.
