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The first transgender medical clinic opened in the US in the 1960s. But cisgender and intersex children began receiving similar treatments even earlier – often without their consent.
From primary care to cancer screening and insurance coverage, gender-diverse people still face many hurdles to getting good medical care.
A health policy researcher explains how doctors determine their pay rates, and the system that lets them do it.
A quarter of Americans don’t know how they feel about the Build Back Better Act. Focusing on Americans’ individual stories – and not just political theater – could help fuel civic engagement.
Black American women have disproportionate HIV infection rates – in part because of systemic and structural racism in the health care system.
This finding suggests public health efforts will have to address the treatment barriers these men face – like poverty or homophobia – to meet the nation’s goal of ending the HIV epidemic by 2030.
Mistakes at the hands of health care providers are a major cause of death in the US. And many of the blunders are a byproduct of the system.
Health researchers hope a new regulation requiring hospitals to post their prices will tame soaring health care costs, but compliance and standardization are hurdles.
Medical innovations paired with innovative programs to get them to Black, Indigenous and Hispanic Americans can help close the health inequality gap.
Both are essential on a farm, but the costs are making it harder for young farmers to grow their businesses.
Black Americans have worse health outcomes by many measures. To draw attention to that fact, the CDC and communities across the country have called racism a public health threat.
With outdated delivery systems at many hospitals and clinics, mistakes can lead to costly duplication of services and poor patient outcomes. But there are ways to fix the current system.
Hospitals have a lot of room to reduce, reuse and recycle supplies – as many were forced to discover during the pandemic.
Developing a national disaster response plan for the pandemic was only step one.
The president is calling for sweeping changes in health care policy. Tens of millions of Americans could be affected.
From Vice-President Kamala Harris to Senator Bernie Sanders, voices were raised during the campaign for a more accessible US health care system. What can we expect from the Biden administration?
Joe Biden’s middling economic policies are a chance to cut through the bitter polarisation of US politics.
West Virginia’s success holds some important lessons for other states and the rest of the COVID-19 vaccine rollout.
In the U.S., people of color are more likely to die of COVID-19 than whites. The new administration can change this.
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Associate Professor of Public Health, Texas A&M University
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Associate Professor of Surgery and Public Policy, University of Virginia
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Directeur de recherche CNRS au CEE, Sciences Po
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Honorary Enterprise Professor, School of Population and Global Health, and Department of General Practice, The University of Melbourne
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Professor of Economics, UNSW Sydney
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Distinguished Professor, Arthur J. Gosnell Professor of Economics, & Interim Head, Department of Sustainability, Rochester Institute of Technology
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Dean of the Sol Price School of Public Policy; Distinguished Professor of Pharmacy, Public Policy, and Economics, University of Southern California
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Professor of Health Policy, Columbia University
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Professor of Law, Co-Director of UNLV Workplace Law Program, University of Nevada, Las Vegas
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Assistant Professor and Co-Director, Center for Emergency Management and Homeland Security, Watts College, Arizona State University
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