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How Education and Research Can Help Fix Health Care Inequity
By Patricia Harrison-Monroe, PhD, Francisco Moreno, MD | Feb 23, 2021
Tags: diversity, quality of care, medical bias, African American, Black, Hispanic, Native American, health disparities, health equity
“Of all the forms of inequality, injustice in health is the most shocking and inhumane.”  -Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Over the course of the COVID-19 pandemic, the disease has disproportionately affected... (read more)

University of Arizona Helping Reduce State Health Gaps
By Anne Roubal, PhD, MS | Nov 10, 2015
Tags: Arizona, health disparities, Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, health equity, diabetes, smoking, health insurance
Every year, more than 1,500 deaths in Arizona could be avoided if all residents had an equal chance to be healthy. That’s the startling conclusion of the Arizona Health Gaps Report released today by the Robert Wood Johnson... (read more)
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