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Health equity
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AHCJ fellow tells how she examined hospital community benefit, post-ACA
Beth Kutscher, a Modern Healthcare reporter who recently become the publication’s California bureau chief, has covered health care finance for…
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How the Flint water crisis has further exposed health disparities
The ongoing water quality crisis in Flint, Mich., highlights many public health issues, but shines its brightest light on health…
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New tip sheet offers assistance in covering LGBT aging issues
Covering LGBT aging can be an exercise in frustration for journalists. Though more older adults are living openly as LGBT…
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Time to take a look at local efforts to tackle health, poverty
Perhaps 2016 will be the year of the gap – tackling the issue of the working poor who fall between…
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Increase in ‘gray’ divorce hurts finances, health for many women
When older women get divorced, their new status often puts both their financial future and health at risk than that…
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While heroin use grabs headlines, don’t forget coverage of prescription pain meds
Recent Associated Press coverage of opioid pain medications, combined with new government data, serve as a reminder that opioids continue…
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Looking back at 2015 on Covering Health
Bacon, chocolate, vaccines and Mark Cuban: Those were the topics of some of the most-read Covering Health posts of 2015.…
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Atlantic writer offers suggestions for covering drugs, pregnant women
Olga Khazan, a health writer for The Atlantic, often tackles health subjects bisecting traditional health and the impact on people’s…
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LGBT youth expert to discuss health issues in webcast
This week, six national advocacy organizations called for greater efforts to educate LGBT youth about sex, because they say research…
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Recent headlines examine impact of racial disparities on cancer, longevity
First there was the “dubious milestone,” as The New York Times called it, of black women for the first time…