Health plans trying to reach low-income and underserved customers say they’re being stymied by a decades-old federal rule limiting texting — and they’re framing it as a health equity issue in their bid to change it.
Health Equity & Social Justice
Experts hope new universal basic income programs and an innovative maternal center will help protect Black infants and mothers.
Links between environmental exposures and maternal health outcomes remain underexplored, despite recent efforts to catch up.
Early intervention is the key to keeping kids in school, and the Richmond County School System does that through a multi-tier level of support and services.
A pledge to sharply reduce infant mortality by 2023 faces daunting obstacles.
For years in the western Coachella Valley, residents who don’t speak English have been left out of senior centers — the same places where many older adults go when experiencing isolation, loneliness, and housing, food or income insecurity.
Securing the physical, emotional and informational support of doulas.
Stories from the Bay Area’s tiny homes full of hope, disappointment.
Medical discrimination and a lack of data make it difficult for people of color to get help for post-COVID problems.
“Don’t be dismissable,” as one doula advises.