Databyte Archives

07.27.2020 a graph of a number of blue rectangular bars with text

In Sickness and in Health

Much of the high uninsurance rate among LGBQ people is due to their increased risk of living in poverty, but some is due to legal insurance discrimination.

Fellow Gray Babbs

07.23.2020 a graph of different sizes and colors

Health Equity

Race and Algorithms

Health algorithms measure risk with data established in conditions of inequity, and as a result, they reproduce racial disparities.

Fellow Edward Alexander

07.14.2020 a graph of blue bars with text

Disparity, Depression, Disease

In the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic, unemployment rates in the US have jumped to levels not seen since the Great Depression.

Fellow Edward Alexander

07.07.2020 a graph of a number of people with different colored dots

Fostering Mortality

Attention to the special needs of foster children will be necessary to prevent the trailing effects of trauma and premature death.

Fellow Pat Williams

07.02.2020 a map of the united states

Health Equity

Narrowing the Digital Divide

Telemedicine is often lauded as a solution for delivering care to medically-underserved areas, but most vulnerable rural groups do not have internet access.

Fellow Gray Babbs

06.25.2020 a graph of different colored lines

Stigmatizing Abortion

When peers are unsupportive, discriminatory, or judgmental and stigmatize abortion, pregnant women experience high rates of depression, anxiety, and stress.

Fellow Pat Williams

06.23.2020 a graph of a number of people with different colored lines

Missed Hepatitis C

Largely due to the opioid epidemic, hepatitis C infection rates among pregnant women in the US have tripled since the 1990s.

Fellow Tasha McAbee

06.16.2020 a graph of a number of months and months

EMS for a Climate Emergency

In addition to its toll on individual health, new research suggests that extreme heat impacts the activity of emergency workers.

Fellow Gray Babbs

06.09.2020 a graph of injury deaths

Health Equity

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

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