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President Trump’s plan to end federal health insurance subsidies to health insurers that help make the insurance more affordable to for low- and middle-income consumers under the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will likely harm the health insurance market,…
Addressing disparities in prostate cancer death rates between black and white men
African American men with prostate cancer die at almost 2.5 times the rate of white men in the United States. One explanation is that they receive unequal access to health care, but that doesn’t fully account for the…
U.S. data scant on deaths, injuries by law enforcement
While copious data document the career of former 49ers quarterback Colin Kaepernick, few statistics are available on the phenomenon he protested by kneeling during pre-game performances of the national anthem—police killings of African Americans. Maybe sports fans, with…
Millions of suburban residents in U.S. lack health insurance
For immediate release: October 2, 2017 Boston, MA – Nearly 40% of the uninsured population in America lives in the suburbs and nearly one in seven suburban residents lacks health insurance. Despite the suburbs’ general reputation of affluence,…
Even ‘green’ homes contain hazardous chemicals
Thirty remodeled “green” public housing units in Boston were each found to have at least one toxic chemical — including concentrations of formaldehyde that exceeded the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s cancer-based screening level — in the air both…
Millions of disadvantaged adults may not be getting the statins they need
The most recent guidelines on statins recommended that millions more Americans take the cholesterol-lowering drug to prevent cardiovascular disease. But most of this additional population are from disadvantaged backgrounds, making it more difficult for them to obtain the medications,…
Health professionals must challenge those who benefit from hate, inequity
Public health professionals must expose and challenge individuals, organizations, and political parties who directly benefit from hate and inequity, writes Nancy Krieger in the British Medical Journal (BMJ)
‘Ghost Portraits’ honor African American and Native American public health notables
July 31, 2017—What might Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health look like if slavery and the oppression of Blacks and Native Americans had not occurred?
Noise pollution more common in communities of color and racially segregated cities
In communities with larger proportions of minority residents, noise levels are generally higher, according to a study from Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health and the University of California, Berkeley. The study also showed that racially segregated…
Socioeconomic inequalities in childhood undernutrition persist
A new study is the most comprehensive analysis to date revealing the wide gaps in childhood undernutrition at the global level.
