Health Equity Archives

06.15.2020 a wooden ruler with a ruler on it

Look Before You Legislate

The health impact assessment is one strategy to predict how newly proposed legislation would affect population health before a bill is ever enacted.

Fellow Tasha McAbee

06.11.2020 a red silhouette of a person with hands on their chest

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Violence

Me Too

Identifying the environmental risk factors for sexual harassment serves as an important step to prevent it from happening.

Fellow Gray Babbs

06.10.2020 a yellow line on a black surface

Health Equity

Racism and the Opportunity Gap

The racial opportunity gap offers one framework for modeling the effect of place in generating racial disparities in economic and health outcomes.

Guest Author Rourke O’Brien

06.09.2020 a graph of injury deaths

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Men Hard at Work

The gender disparity in workplace fatalities has remained steady for the past 30 years. Why do so many more men die than women?

Fellow Gray Babbs

06.05.2020 a group of small plastic houses

Housing for Child Health

In Chicago, chronic eviction and housing instability meant increased odds of an underweight baby or of an infant’s death.

Fellow Edward Alexander

05.28.2020 a graph of a line graph

Restoring LGBTQ Health

By the end of 2015, nearly 60% of LGBTQ people reported at least 14 poor health days after the passage of a Religious Freedom Restoration Act in Indiana.

Fellow Edward Alexander

05.27.2020 a man lying on the floor

Health Equity

What About Men of Color?

Men of color report feeling unheard and uninformed about the care their partners received, similar to feelings reported by women of color in prior studies.

Fellow Edward Alexander

05.26.2020 a map of different colored states

Health Equity

Segregating Access to Care

Black Americans are at a higher risk of failing to receive needed care compared to Hispanics or Latinos and Whites because of distance to trauma centers.

Fellow Pat Williams

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