Background: Providence Community Health Centers (PCHC) patient population has grown by 30,000 in the past decade.13 During this time, the Black non-Hispanic patient population at …
Globally 123 million cases and 2.71 million deaths are attributable to Covid-19. The Covid-19 pandemic disproportionately disadvantages historically vulnerable populations by exacerbating existing inequalities.10,11 Hispanic/ …
Identifying disparities in healthcare is important for patient safety. In this national cohort of outpatients with a UTI, differences in potentially suboptimal antibiotic treatment were …
The authors describe disparities along the depression treatment cascade, from indication for antidepressant treatment to effective treatment, in HIV-infected individuals by gender and race/ethnicity.
Introduction: Mothers with low social support experience more complications than mothers with high social support. Maternal Hypertension, Preeclampsia, and Gestational Diabetes are the most common …
Clínica Esperanza provides free primary medical care to Rhode Island residents without health insurance. Most of the clinic is operated by nurses and community health …
The authors describe that in this large, diverse cohort of US patients engaged in routine HIV care, they observed large gaps in antidepressant treatment, timely …
In this article, Hansen and Metzl introduce structural competency and make an argument for training clinical practitioners to create structural interventions. This is the introductory …
In this perspective piece, Bourgois et. al describe the concept of “structural vulnerability,” how it was incorporated into a questionnaire designed to address structural forces …
This study examines the relationship between race and socioeconomic status on infant birth weight in a Midwestern county noted to have high rates of Black …
Partnership goals are to increase communication access for Deaf and Hard-of-Hearing communities by improving the quality and quantity of sign language interpreting services available and …
