In the last six years, five maternity units have closed down across rural Virginia, impacting access to prenatal care. However, with the closures have come new models of care.
Health Equity & Social Justice
Young adults 18 to 24 years old who are aging out of the foster care system face the risk of housing instability and homelessness. One in five foster youth become unhoused upon turning 18. Young Asians are further hampered because they are not seen as needing support. This is the story of a twenty-one year old Korean American woman who faced innumerable challenges in finding a stable home after leaving foster care.
Service providers say the state’s programs need significant investment to make inroads on reduction.
An investigation last year by USA Today of nearly 180 hot car deaths over the last five years revealed that there were charges brought against at least 36 people of color and 35 white individuals.
Also this week: Has the much-reported rise in U.S. maternal mortality been exaggerated?
Experts say discrimination against people who use medication to treat their opioid use disorder is rampant. The Justice Department is trying to change that.
Cathay Manor, a senior housing project with 270 housing units in LA's Chinatown, is home to low-income elderly residents. The two elevators in the building have never functioned smoothly, leaving residents trapped and isolated and, in some cases, causing injury and great harm.
A growing body of evidence suggests that an important public health tool intended to give women agency over their bodies is at times deployed in ways that take it away.
The rising rate of hate crimes against the LGBTQ community in Los Angeles has prompted calls for a public health emergency from community members and elected officials alike.
Fourteen states now have total or near-total bans. Yet the recorded number and rate of abortions is the highest it’s been in a decade.