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July 31, 2020
COVID-19 Highlights Unequal Treatment of People of Color in U.S. Territories
Héctor Hernández-Delgado Coronavirus, Health Equity
As we consider the effects of racism on the health of Black, Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) and how the COVID-19 pandemic underscores these health disparities, we must remember the unequal treatment to which the U.S. subjects the predominantly-BIPOC residents of American Samoa, Guam, Northern Mariana Islands, Puerto…
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July 30, 2020
Excluding Immigrants from COVID-19 Relief: What’s Old is New Again
Sarah Grusin Coronavirus, Eligibility & Enrollment, Health Equity, Immigrant Health
During the pandemic, our government should be making every effort to remove exclusions and barriers to health care, conducting proactive outreach to immigrant communities, and striving to ensure that everyone has comprehensive health care. Instead, already marginalized immigrants continue to be excluded from federal relief efforts and are subject…
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July 30, 2020
COVID-19: Exacerbating Old Barriers for Immigrants
Sarah Grusin Coronavirus, Eligibility & Enrollment, Health Equity, Immigrant Health
The U.S. is home to 22 million noncitizens. Immigration status has been repeatedly identified as a social determinant of health. COVID-19 is taking a disparate toll on immigrants. Immigrants are, and have been, reporting concentrated outbreaks in meat packing plants and among farm workers, poor communication from government actors, feeling…
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July 30, 2020
Defending Access to Care for LGBTQ+ Californians in the Wake of Hospital Consolidations with Restrictive Religious Refusal Directives
Skyler Rosellini california, Health Equity
In August 2016, Evan Minton’s hysterectomy was abruptly cancelled by Mercy San Juan Medical Center (Mercy) the day before his scheduled surgery date. The cancellation had nothing to do with Mercy’s concerns over Minton’s health but rather with its status as a Catholic hospital. Mercy’s management claimed Minton’s surgery…
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July 22, 2020
The Unveiling and Magnification of Healthcare Disparities in America
L.D. Britt, MD, MPH Coronavirus, Health Equity
We are pleased to include in our blog series on equity some perspectives offered by the National Health Law Program’s board member, Dr. L.D. Britt, Henry Ford Professor & Edward J. Brickhouse Chairman, Department of Surgery at Eastern Virginia Medical School. A graduate of Harvard Medical School and Harvard…
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July 21, 2020
Advancing Health Equity for Asian Americans in the time of COVID-19
Priscilla Huang california, Coronavirus, Health Equity, Immigrant Health
Across the United States, states and communities are struggling to overcome a global pandemic. At the same time, Black, Indigenous, and other people of color are facing the elevated effects of systematic and institutional racism. For Asian Americans, racism in the era of COVID-19 has meant an explosion of…
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COVID-19 Highlights Unequal Treatment of People of Color in U.S. Territories

Defending Access to Care for LGBTQ+ Californians in the Wake of Hospital Consolidations with Restrictive Religious Refusal Directives

The Unveiling and Magnification of Healthcare Disparities in America

Advancing Health Equity for Asian Americans in the time of COVID-19

Health Equity

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COVID-19 Highlights Unequal Treatment of People of Color in U.S. Territories

Excluding Immigrants from COVID-19 Relief: What’s Old is New Again

COVID-19: Exacerbating Old Barriers for Immigrants

Defending Access to Care for LGBTQ+ Californians in the Wake of Hospital Consolidations with Restrictive Religious Refusal Directives

The Unveiling and Magnification of Healthcare Disparities in America

Advancing Health Equity for Asian Americans in the time of COVID-19