
The Broken Approach to Health Disparities
State, federal, and academic initiatives have poured time and resources into understanding and addressing these gaps. So why haven’t we made real, lasting progress?
State, federal, and academic initiatives have poured time and resources into understanding and addressing these gaps. So why haven’t we made real, lasting progress?
Losing these retail medication outlets creates more than just pharmacy deserts. In many low-income and underserved areas, drugstores also serve as grocery stores and hubs for essential services, and hence their closures mean communities lose crucial access points for a variety of goods and services.
Racism has always existed in healthcare, but the Covid-19 pandemic laid bare how entrenched the problem still is. A panel at the MedCity INVEST conference focused on the role providers and payers play in tackling this issue. They have vowed to listen to minority communities and closely examine the racism in their own organizations, among other strategies.