A process known as “Medicaid unwinding” is dumping tens of millions of low-income households off a key anti-poverty program, usually without solid evidence.
Loss Of Medicaid Coverage Disproportionately Impacted People Of Color Read More »
There is a large and persistent racial life expectancy gap in the United States. And it isn’t happening because of lifestyle choices.
Owing someone money doesn’t just make a person’s life harder – it might also make it shorter, and it certainly makes it sicker.
HEALTH EQUITY RESEARCH SPOTLIGHT: Medical Debt Makes People Live Sicker, Die Sooner Read More »
In recognition of Pride Month this June, this piece details the special threats to health equity that haunt the transgender community.
Understanding The Dire Economic And Health Inequities Facing Transgender Americans Read More »
How can community development organizations collaborate with health care providers to promote equity?
Partnering For Health Equity At The 2023 Just Economy Conference Read More »
What does the historic overhaul of Community Reinvestment Act regulations mean for health institutions?
What’s in the Community Reinvestment Act Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on Healthcare? Read More »
My immigrant parents are still running the small-town corner store they bought half a century ago. I’m left to pick up the shattered pieces of their dream.
Wealth And Opportunity Divides Haunt Immigrant Families For Generations Read More »
America’s most powerful tool for fixing economic inequality is also key to fixing inequities in public health — because wealth and health are closely linked.
The Community Reinvestment Act and Its Connections to Health Outcomes Read More »
Wealth equity is intrinsically tied to health equity. Hospitals and health systems are stepping into the community development arena more frequently as there are many opportunities for them to partner with banks and other financial institutions to reduce economic disparities that could reduce health disparities.
Health Practitioners and Advocates Provide CRA Comments on Fed’s ANPR Read More »
Access to housing, jobs, transportation, education, healthy food and recreation are the building blocks for a healthy community, outside of clinical care. Working with banks to support those building blocks is supported by a robust CRA.
Loans and investments made as part of banks’ Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) activities are an important source of funding for hospitals and health systems to address social determinants of health, the physical and social conditions in the environment that influence health.
Health and wealth equity didn’t exist in the U.S. before COVID-19, and the pandemic only exacerbated racial, ethnic, gender and geographic disparities. To address these issues and provide a platform for collaborative work toward solutions, NCRC members and partners in North Carolina held a 3-day special online event Oct. 13-15, 2020: Invest in Health and Wealth: Stabilizing Underserved Communities While Fighting a Pandemic.
Health equity was a challenge before coronavirus Read More »
In this article, diversity, equity and inclusion consultants Stephen Graves and Alex Bethel share insights on how White healthcare professionals can move beyond White fragility and harness their racial privilege to create health equity.
White Accountability & Health Equity Read More »
National Findings Affirm Local Experiences Last week, a team of researchers from NCRC, the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Public Health and University of Richmond Digital Scholarship Lab produced a report with maps and data from 142 cities that showed how historic discrimination in lending and investing in entire neighborhoods correlates with shorter life expectancy
NCRC launches publishing series on Segregation, Environment and Health Read More »
A new study compared 1930’s maps of government-sanctioned lending discrimination zones with current census and public health data.
Redlining and Neighborhood Health Read More »
