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Across the country, trash incinerators disproportionately overburden majority-Black and -Hispanic communities. Though the number of incinerators has declined nationwide since the 1980s, Florida offers financial incentives to waste management companies that expand existing facilities or build new ones.
Homelessness experts and community leaders say vulnerability questionnaires have worsened racial disparities among the unhoused by systematically placing white people in front of the line ahead of Black people. Now places like Los Angeles, Las Vegas, and Austin, Texas, are developing alternative surveys to reduce bias.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News staff made the rounds on national and local media in the last two weeks to discuss topical stories. Hereās a collection of their appearances.
Federal law says Native Americans arenāt liable for medical bills the Indian Health Service promises to pay. Some are billed anyway as a result of backlogs or mistakes from the agency, financial middlemen, or health systems.
Access to information in languages other than English is protected by various federal, state, and local policies. But researchers tracking them say that as rural America grows more diverse, people not proficient in English face added barriers to critical public health information and services.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News staffers and contributors made the rounds on national and local media this week to discuss their stories. Hereās a collection of their appearances.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News staff made the rounds on national and local media in the last two weeks to discuss topical stories. Hereās a collection of their appearances.
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Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss topical stories. Hereās a collection of their appearances.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News senior correspondents Fred Clasen-Kelly and Renuka Rayasam discuss how government decisions undermine Black health.
Community health workers are increasingly common in rural areas, where they help patients overcome barriers to accessing care and staying healthy.
In this episode of āAn Arm and a Leg,ā host Dan Weissmann sits down with Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health Newsā Cara Anthony to talk about the documentary and podcast series she produced about the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police killing on a rural Missouri community. The project is called āSilence in Sikeston.ā
The United States has made almost no progress in closing racial health disparities despite promises, research shows. The government, some critics argue, is often the underlying culprit.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony talks about how racism affects health on Nine PBSā āListen, St. Louis with Carol Daniel,ā stemming from her reporting for the āSilence in Sikestonā multimedia project, on the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police killing on a rural Missouri community.
This legislative cycle, Gov. Gavin Newsom signed bills affirming reproductive rights and mandating insurance coverage of in vitro fertilization, but the Democrat was reluctant to impose new regulations and frequently cited costs for vetoing bills.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News and California Healthline staff made the rounds on national and local media in recent weeks to discuss topical stories. Hereās a collection of their appearances.
Ńī¹óåś“«Ć½Ņīl Health News Midwest correspondent Cara Anthony discusses her reporting for the āSilence in Sikestonā multimedia project, which explores the impact of a 1942 lynching and a 2020 police killing on a rural Missouri community ā and what it led her to learn about her own familyās past.
Donald Trump put Springfield, Ohio, in a harsh spotlight by spreading misinformation about its legal Haitian population. But what is really happening in this small city is a microcosm of the health care challenges immigration hot spots throughout the country are facing.
Facing a dire shortage of bilingual and culturally attuned therapists, an Oakland, California, community clinic serving Asian immigrants has trained staffers in a victim support unit to provide lay counseling.
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