We identified stigmatization of alcohol use disorder as a barrier to effective medical care. Steps need to be taken at the medical and structural levels to address these biases. @tos20141 @jyu1523@LisaZha15073078@MClerkship
What is Health Literacy? And why does it matter? Check out this infographic my classmates and I made to find out more! It's time to start checking in on Health Literacy!
Increasingly medical technologies are gaining attention for entrenching racism. In this 2019 @ScienceMagazine paper the authors find that a widely used algorithm to allocate more resources to "sicker" patients discriminates against Black people @MClerkship
https://t.co/YGMKiyc1jq
@LisaZha15073078 Such a interesting article! We need all this testing ASAP. It would be interesting to see if NYC implementing testing at health and hospitals affected these data points.
Interesting article by Lieberman-Cribbin et al (2020) in American Journal of Preventive Medicine on socioeconomic and racial disparities in COVID-19 testing and positivity rates in NYC @MClerkship
https://t.co/Ocv6RXfUXD
"with subsequent within-home transmission in high-density, low-income households.” A clear demonstration of how the privileges of income, race, and employment can directly impact health #socialdeterminantsofhealth#SDOH#HealthDisparities
The authors found that low-income Latinx workers unable to shelter in place were at higher risk for recent COVID-19 infection. The authors also found “most recent infections during shelter-in-place are due to acquisition of virus when working... "