Boston Medical Center is a leader in addressing social needs and health disparities. Here's how they're seeing success. With an estimated 80% of health outcomes affected by social determinants of ...

Private equity firms, which invest in other private firms rather than purchase shares of public companies, pose a significant concern in the health care industry. They offer investors the opportunity ...

Healthcare companies are ramping up health equity efforts. However, many are still missing the mark, one executive recently said. “When we talk about health inequity, when we talk about social ...

Progress eliminating health inequities is extremely slow. I use health inequities as an overarching term referring to differences between demographics in healthcare treatment or health outcomes, as ...

Cyber inequity has widened in the past year amid increasing complexities in cyberspace and geopolitical uncertainties, to the World Economic Forum (WEF)’s Global Cybersecurity Outlook 2025 has found.

UChicago Medicine is launching a new effort to tackle inequities in cancer, the South Side academic health system announced today. CinEQUITY — the Center to Eliminate Cancer Inequity is part of ...

A prominent academic leader argued Thursday that White people’s life spans give them an unfair advantage in collecting Social Security. Thomas LaVeist, the dean of Tulane University’s School of Public ...

So much depends on your ZIP code, even children’s access to play. But an effort is growing to ensure the playground is where all kids can have fun, learn and heal. “It's where they learn, it's where ...

In July 2024, the Pennsylvania General Assembly and Gov. Josh Shapiro enacted a research based method to determine school funding “adequacy targets” for each of the state’s 499 school districts. Using ...