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disparities
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New life expectancy data can add context
to reporting on local healthA new data release today from the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation gives journalists some unique tools to help…
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Should Seattle Superfund site address health as well as pollution?
InvestigateWest’s Carol Smith writes in the Seattle Post-Intelligencer and InvestigateWest.org that the focus on the environmental disaster of Seattle’s industrial…
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Reporter looks at black infant mortality in Wis.
The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel‘s Crocker Stephenson took a look at disparities in infant mortality in that area and explored both…
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Holtz prescribes behavior modification for ‘White Coat Myopia’
Every year end brings a flood of stories about the “Top Medical Breakthroughs.” Over the rest of the year there…
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Community-led effort sparks public health wave
Writing in The New York Times, Jessica Reaves writes about how a 2000-06 Chicago community survey embodies the block-by-block, community-reliant…
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Ky. program a model for improving rural access
As part of his series on rural health, the Wisconsin State Journal‘s David Wahlberg traveled down to Appalachian Kentucky to…
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Myths obscure lack of health care for some Asians
A focus on “ethnic disparities” can obscure the fact that racial designations are so broad that the disparities within them…
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California’s doctors: Aging, white and specialized
In California Watch’s blog, Joanna Lin breaks down the California HealthCare Foundation’s latest report on the state’s physician supply. Nationwide,…
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State snapshots make it easy to spot disparities in children’s health care
The Data Resource Center for Child and Adolescent Health has broken the 2007 NSCH Child Health and System Performance Profile…
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Vaccine waivers contribute to outbreak
In the wake of California’s public health director’s declaration that whooping cough has reached epidemic status, California Watch’s Christina Jewett…