By Elise Reuter
Hospitals and insurance companies use a variety of algorithms to calculate risk, but they don’t always yield equitable results.
The data tell a disturbing story about how the U.S. has failed to invest in the health and future of some of the most vulnerable among us.
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“If we really cared, we would be getting the housing,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor at UCSF. “Everything else follows.”
Twenty one journalists from around the nation join the USC Center for Health Journalism this week to take part in the 2020 Data Fellowship. Welcome!
In Silicon Valley, the pandemic has exacerabated long-running inequities between places such as Atherton and East Palo Alto.
Even before the COVID-19 pandemic and a summer of wildfire smoke, children living in East and West Oakland had a hard time breathing.
In our highly connected world, abusers use technology against victims to monitor, threaten, harass, and hurt them.
In recent years, the jail has also seen the number of deaths in custody tick upward. Most of those deaths are suicides, a category of deaths some jail experts have deemed “mostly preventable.”
By Kate Martin
The lack of consistency in screening abuse reports is concerning enough for state legislators to consider changes to North Carolina’s system.
