A pandemic, a shift in homeless services and two new reports.
Health Insurance and Costs
Despite Hawaii’s reputation as a racial paradise, the state is home to striking income disparities that fall along racial and ethnic lines.
Refugees need help with mental health care, but are they getting it? A reporter plots a deeper exploration of their plight.
A new study shows the impacts of a 2015 decision to cut health insurance for some of the state’s poorest and sickest residents.
Pre-exposure prophylaxis can save lives, but patients seeking the medications face numerous obstacles.
A new reporting project asks, "Why do people of color in an affluent city lack basic medical attention?"
"We live in a health care desert. There's no other way to say it," on Central Coast resident said. "We are basically beholden to two major health care companies."
In hard-hit Navajo Nation, fighting COVID-19 means addressing a long history of underinvestment and policy neglect.
COVID-19 has underscored the disparities faced by immigrant communities in access to medical care and financial support in the state.
It's hard to tell the story of how the Marshallese came to America without starting with the nuclear bombs.