Historically, underserved communities of Black and Latino students experiencing poverty underperform in mathematics as measured by various academic indicators. The emergence of the coronavirus ...

FAQs on Preventive Care and Bodily Autonomy. The recent Supreme Court decision temporarily preserved nationwide access ...

Increased access to broadband would enable more people to access telehealth, but those without high-speed internet should not have to wait to reap the benefits of telehealth. Audio-only telehealth, ...

Building and staffing health systems have historically relied on supply-and-demand metrics: determine the health profile of a community and hire the appropriate staff to match the care needs of the ...

With the ambitious goal of closing the digital divide, Congress approved and President Biden recently signed into law $65 billion for broadband infrastructure—the largest federal investment in history ...

On March 1, 2024, Nadine J. Barrett, PhD, MS, MPH, formally started her term as president of the Association of Cancer Care Centers (ACCC). Barrett, a medical sociologist by training, is a professor ...

As serious systemic inequities have come into focus in recent years, health equity is top of mind for many of today’s healthcare leaders. This includes providing high reliability care (i.e., patient ...

The Covid-19 pandemic has unquestionably elevated the role technology plays in the daily lives of Americans. One area where this has become especially important and apparent is the health and ...

The research center is part of the University of Kansas’ School of Social Welfare, where scholars will study health equity and access issues from a social worker's perspective. Researchers at the ...

Digital inclusion offers pathways to health equity by expanding access to the formal health care sector and supporting independent health management. Yet poverty- and education-related disparities ...