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Is there racial bias in health care outcomes? Utah Juneteenth panel raises issues
A panel of health care professionals discuss racial biases in health and medicine. The panel was a part of Juneteenth Day of Freedom Summit held by the University of Utah on Wednesday. (Ashley Fredde, KSL.com) Estimated read time: 4-5 minutes SALT LAKE CITY — The diagnosis of his grandmother’s bladder cancer and her death propelled …
Minnesota’s uninsured rate hit historic low in 2021 but racial disparities increased
News Release April 21, 2022 Contact information The Minnesota Department of Health (MDH) released new data showing mixed news regarding health insurance coverage in Minnesota during 2021. While actions taken by state officials helped drop the state’s uninsured rate to the lowest level ever measured, racial disparities in coverage worsened. …
Doctors fighting racial health disparities faces threats, harassment
Dr. Aletha Maybank joined the American Medical Association as its first chief health equity officer in 2019, determined to fight racial disparities in medicine. That work grew more urgent in 2020 as the Covid-19 pandemic exposed deadly inequities in health care, and as George Floyd’s murder turned the country’s attention to the pervasiveness of systemic …
Shared decision-making, optimism can reduce racial inequities in diabetes technology
Source/Disclosures Published by: Disclosures: Agarwal reports she has done health care disparities advising for Medtronic. ADD TOPIC TO EMAIL ALERTS Receive an email when new articles are posted on Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Subscribe We were unable to process your request. Please try …
APD, mayor and DEA respond to comedian who claimed racial profiling at airport – Atlanta Journal Constitution
APD, mayor and DEA respond to comedian who claimed racial profiling at airport Atlanta Journal Constitution Bad Trip Star Eric Andre Racially Profiled by Police at Atlanta Airport Yahoo Lifestyle Eric Andre Claims He Was Racially Profiled by Police at Atlanta Airport TMZ Hartsfield-Jackson budgets $33 million to fund new Delta Sky Club Atlanta Journal Constitution Eric Andre Says …
BlackRock plans racial audit, in break with Wall Street peers
BlackRock Inc. is breaking ranks with its peers on Wall Street by doing a deep dive into its business to see how it may have contributed to racial inequities in the financial system. The world’s largest money manager plans to undergo an independent racial audit of its operations, following a request from a shareholder. Companies including Airbnb …
Live updates: Biden to focus on racial equity; senators to be sworn in as jurors ahead of Trump trial
Biden likely to halt new fossil fuel leasing on federal lands and waters Wednesday By Juliet Eilperin and Dino Grandoni Biden is poised to impose a moratorium on new federal oil and gas leasing Wednesday, according to three individuals briefed on the matter who spoke on the condition of anonymity because the plan was still …
U.N. Panel: Digital Technology in Policing Can Reinforce Racial Bias
Governments need an abrupt change of direction to avoid “stumbling zombielike into a digital welfare dystopia,” Philip G. Alston, a human rights expert reporting on poverty, told the United Nations General Assembly last year, in a report calling for the regulation of digital technologies, including artificial intelligence, to ensure compliance with human rights. The private …
Racial disparities in healthcare have gone on too long
Luis E. Raez, Guest columnist Published 7:01 a.m. CT Nov. 22, 2020 Sometimes it takes major, front-page level events to make us pay attention to a problem that has been with us all along. The COVID-19 pandemic raised awareness that public health crises tend to take a disproportionate share of minority lives. And the untimely …