Health Equity & Social Justice

The series puts the emphasis on the validity of a patient’s feelings and emotions surrounding a particular health encounter or experience.

Data obtained by Reveal highlights how a patchwork system can be ill-equipped to tackle serious mental health episodes, leaving migrant children to bear the tremendous toll.

A new community survey exposes widespread cancer, asthma, anxiety, and depression in Wilmington, California.

For decades, doctors defaulted to hysterectomy to treat fibroid symptoms. That’s changing as patients push for more awareness and a wider range of treatment options.

A story from an era before the rights of gay people were recognized as inherent to their humanity and right to privacy, an era that suddenly seems less far away than it used to.

Black women have high rates of fibroids – which are one of the leading causes of hysterectomies. Women in rural areas may have a harder time gaining access to alternative treatments such as uterine fibroid embolization that are available at large hospitals or specialty centers.

Known as the public charge rule, it allowed the government to deny green cards to people who received Medicaid, food stamps, rental support and other essential forms of non-cash aid.

The Biden administration takes steps to ease the burden and protect consumers.

In this webinar, we highlight the ways in which the health care system’s focus on money and good grades is shortchanging the health of communities of color.

In this webinar, we take inspiration from from STAT's "Color Code" series to discuss strategies and examples for telling stories about inequities, disparities and racism in health care systems.