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disparities
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Workshop explored health needs of rural residents
Dennis Berens, president of the National Rural Health Association, called media coverage of Health Policy a failure – but not…
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Wisconsin’s low Medicaid fees create dental woes
The Wisconsin State Journal‘s David Wahlberg reports that access to adequate dental care is a major public health issue throughout…
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Feds want to fight food deserts
The Detroit News‘ Nathan Hurst reports from D.C. on the Healthy Food Financing Initiative, proposed legislation that would commit between…
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Report: Health care disparities aren’t getting better
In their coverage of AHRQ’s latest annual quality and disparities reports (Quality PDF | Disparities PDF), most outlets focused on…
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Latino diabetes boom caused by range of factors
The Ventura County Star‘s Kim Lamb Gregory looked into the high rate of Type 2 diabetes among the local Latino…
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Collaboration brings Calif. hunger into focus
Food insecurity is on the rise throughout the country, with the U.S. Department of Agriculture estimating that one of every…
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Disparities in health care complex, hard to correct
Seven years after the landmark IOM study which established that racial minorities had worse health and were getting poorer care…
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Report measures health factors at county level
A county-by-county collection of reports set to be released tomorrow could be a good source for local data on a…
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Med school prof: Dartmouth Atlas is ‘malarkey’
In a story done in collaboration with The Philadelphia Inquirer, Kaiser Health News’ Jordan Rau’s report on a leading physician’s…
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How hysterectomies spurred Dartmouth Atlas’ birth
In the first of a three-part series on health care costs in America, NPR’s Alix Spiegel tells the story of…