Whether a woman delivers by cesarean has less to do with her health than the hospital she goes to. Case in point: Doctors Hospital of Laredo, where rates of surgical intervention during childbirth are way above the norm. Experts say something isn’t right.
This story was produced by Ida Mojadad, a participant in the 2019 Data Fellowship, who is investigating the efficacy of the health access program Healthy SF in San Francisco.
Her other stories include:
Workers may get cash payout from medical reimbursement accounts
Millions left sitting in medi
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.
Hospitals and insurance companies use a variety of algorithms to calculate risk, but they don’t always yield equitable results.
“If we really cared, we would be getting the housing,” said Dr. Margot Kushel, a professor at UCSF. “Everything else follows.”
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 Silicon Valley, the pandemic has exacerabated long-running inequities between places such as Atherton and East Palo Alto.
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.”
How did a county that ranks 11th among California counties in population end up with the second-highest COVID-19 case rate per capita in the state?
