Grandmothers Hold the Key: Why Pacific Families Choose Kin Over Clinics in Infant Sleep Safety
A qualitative study of Samoan, Tongan, Cook Island Māori, and Niue mothers and grandmothers in Auckland reveals that Pacific families ...
Tag: health equity
Fewer Than 1 in 10 Rental Homes Welcome Pets, and Public Health Is Paying the Price
A new multi-stakeholder study argues that restrictive rental pet policies act as an overlooked structural determinant of health, driving emotional ...
Patients Redesign the Questions Hospitals Ask About Their Social Needs
At Boston Medical Center, 37 patients speaking English, Spanish, and Haitian Creole co-designed a social needs screening tool, revealing that ...
Marginalization and Missing Primary Care Linked to Early Death in Metastatic Breast Cancer
An Ontario study of more than 4,000 patients found that social marginalization and lack of a primary care provider significantly ...
Heart Disease Risk in Transgender Adults Remains Dangerously Understudied, Researchers Warn
A new perspective in the Journal of General Internal Medicine argues that transgender adults face elevated cardiovascular disease risk regardless ...
Most Youth Seeking Help at Canada’s First Integrated Youth Centres Report Suicidal Thoughts
A five-year cohort study of 8,347 young people at British Columbia's Foundry centres finds that 72 percent reported lifetime suicidal ...
The Hidden Bias in AI Healthcare May Come From Clinicians, Not Algorithms
A new perspective in the Journal of General Internal Medicine argues that clinicians' discretionary use of AI can reproduce or ...
Brief Faculty Coaching Weaves Social Drivers of Health into Resident Training
A Yale study found that brief, tailored faculty coaching led 26 of 28 subspecialists to embed social drivers of health ...
Landmark Study Maps 406 Rare Diseases and COVID-19 Infection Across 62.5 Million People in England
A national analysis of 62.5 million English health records reveals that rare disease prevalence varies substantially across ethnic groups, with ...
AI Travels Between Hospitals to Bring Adult-Trained Medical Models to Children
Harvard-led researchers adapted an adult-trained AI model for newborns by training it sequentially on chest x-rays from 30 neonatal intensive ...
Hospitals Screen Patients for Social Needs, but Data Quality Varies Widely
A study of 197,305 hospital encounters across 18 hospitals reveals that social needs screening achieved an 87.4 percent completion rate, ...
Trans-Ancestry Genetic Risk Score Boosts Heart Disease Prediction in Chinese Adults
A new trans-ancestry polygenic risk score built by fusing East Asian and European genome-wide association data markedly improves coronary artery ...
Universal Psychosocial Screening Becomes Standard of Care in Pediatric Cancer
A two-year implementation study at a major children's cancer center shows that universal psychosocial screening across the pediatric cancer treatment ...
Global Health Gaps Narrow for Young Adults, But Injuries and HIV Tell a Darker Story
A 30-year global analysis of GBD 2021 data finds that socioeconomic health inequality among reproductive-age people has narrowed overall, even ...
AI, blockchain and machine perfusion aim to fix the global organ shortage
A new Frontiers in Transplantation review argues that AI, blockchain, IoMT and machine perfusion could transform organ transplantation, but only ...
Nurses Redefine Vulnerability: From Label to Lifeline in Patient Care
Vulnerability is one of the most frequently invoked words in healthcare, yet it has long functioned more as a slogan ...
Fear, Distrust and Distance: What 131 Studies Reveal About Why Cancer Patients Avoid Clinical Trials
A scoping review of 131 studies finds that fear, distrust, logistical burdens and poor information, rather than unwillingness, keep most ...
Why Afghan Migrant Women in Iran Struggle to Reach Reproductive Health Care
A qualitative study in Tehran maps the structural, intermediary, and health-system barriers that shape Afghan migrant women's access to reproductive ...
Liraglutide Doses Below 3.0 mg Show Real-World Benefit, but Cost Blocks Half of Patients
A Taiwanese post-marketing surveillance study finds that nearly half of patients who failed to reach the approved 3.0 mg liraglutide ...
Racism as context and resilience as infrastructure: the racism–resilience response framework for equity-focused implementation
A new equity-centered framework positions racism and community resilience as multilevel determinants of implementation success, offering a four-step participatory process ...
