Climate change and inequality are connected. Policies need to reflect this

An increasingly strong case is being made to bring inequality into discussions about climate change. The logic behind this ...
Health Affairs

Reimagining Rural Health Equity: Understanding Disparities And Orienting Policy, Practice, And Research In Rural America

Anne N. Sosin ([email protected]), Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire. Elizabeth A. Carpenter-Song, Dartmouth College. Health equity efforts in rural places have grown in recent years; however, ...
Medscape

A Solution to Cancer Disparities Improves Care for All

For decades, researchers have documented disparities in the US cancer burden, especially in racial and ethnic groups. Black women have lower rates of breast cancer than White women, for example, but ...
Salon

Disparities in advanced math and science skills begin by kindergarten

Racial and ethnic disparities in advanced math and science skills occur far earlier in the U.S. than previously known. Our new study finds that 13% of white students and 16% of Asian students display ...
The Columbian

‘Substantial disparities’: Fewer minority- and women-owned businesses are getting Vancouver city contracts than should be, says study

A motorist passes by as construction crews work to install a new waterline along Northeast 112th Avenue on Nov. 4. The city of Vancouver is awarding fewer contract dollars to minority- and women-owned ...
News Medical

Smiling Brazil initiative sets example to other nations to eliminate healthcare disparities

Today, the International and American Associations for Dental Research (IADR/AADR) published a Discovery! article titled "10 Years of a National Oral Health Policy in Brazil: Innovation, Boldness and ...