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What Are Social Determinants of Health

WEBSocial determinants of health (SDoH) are factors in a person’s life and environment that impact their health outcomes in positive or negative ways. These …

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Health Equity vs. Health Equality: What's the Difference

WEBElena Mendez-Escobar, PhD, MBA: When we talk about these terms, it’s helpful to imagine a group of people of different heights, ages, and abilities standing …

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A New Initiative Speaks to Healthcare's Role in Racial Justice

WEBSimilarly, the new BEST Partnership for Behavioral Health and Racial and Social Justice aims to prove that mental health providers have an essential role in …

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Why BMCHS Just Launched Its Health Equity Accelerator

WEB2020, the year that rattled healthcare systems around the world. The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted the deep racial inequities that exist in healthcare and …

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New England Journal of Medicine Highlights BMC’s Novel …

WEBAs part of its ongoing commitment to ending health injustice, Boston Medical Center (BMC) launched its Health Equity Accelerator (the Accelerator) in 2021 to …

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New Study Highlights the "Profound Impacts" of Limited …

WEBThe Bottom Line. Exposure to community or domestic violence has an enormous effect on a child’s health. Evidence-based interventions — like the expanded …

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Health Equity, Social Determinants, and the Role of Social Work

WEBThe social determinants of health (SDOH) are the social circumstances in which people live, work, and play. A recent shift from acute care treatment to chronic …

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Community Health Centers: A Role Model for Addressing Social …

WEBFor more than 50 years, CHCs have played an integral but often unheralded role in our nation’s healthcare system, delivering neighborhood-based primary care …

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'You're Treating the Kid, but the Family Is the System' HealthCity

WEBOnly about 20% of the children in the United States who experience behavioral health issues receive specialized care, and it's not hard to understand …

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It's the Healthcare System’s Responsibility to Treat the Human

WEBThe current opioid epidemic has reached staggering heights in Massachusetts. An estimated 2,290 people died from an opioid-related overdose in …

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What Is Upstream Healthcare

WEBSimply put, upstream healthcare is any approach to disrupt these structural barriers and to transform a person’s quality of life and health outcomes. By improving …

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"Rewriting Healthcare Means Moving From Charity to Equity"

WEBPMC: Rewriting healthcare means approaching patients and community with love and care. Rewriting healthcare means listening to patients and to our community, …

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BMC Is Primed to Deliver New Gene Therapies for Sickle Cell …

WEBPharmaceutical companies Vertex Pharmaceuticals and bluebird bio have both achieved FDA approval for gene therapies that can treat sickle cell disease and …

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What Is Harm Reduction

WEBMassachusetts saw more than 2,300 opioid overdose mortalities in 2022, the most of any year. The rising prevalence of fentanyl in the drug supply, as well as the …

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Demystifying Mpox, the Latest Public Health Emergency

WEBOn Friday August 5, the U.S. declared mpox, then called monkeypox, a public health emergency.In response, Cassandra Pierre, MD, MPH, infectious disease …

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Teen Parents and Their Children Have A Unique Set of Needs; This

WEBTeen pregnancy rates have been on the decline for the last few decades, but disparities still persist in historically disinvested communities, which still have the highest …

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