Homeless individuals with diabetes face so many barriers to managing their diabetes. Check out this infographic our group made to highlight these challenges and how we can address them. @eseosa_odigie@rheafogla@EloraBasu2@MClerkship
All individuals deserve care and compassion when they interact with healthcare professionals. See below for highlights on working with PWID! @MClerkship
Home health care workers, deemed essential during the COVID-19 pandemic, lack adequate hazard compensation and resources, proper PPE, and safe workplace conditions, leaving them and their families more vulnerable to infection and death.
https://t.co/6XIoKlIF2p
Who is more likely to get a ventilator during the #covid19 pandemic - a 40-year-old, healthy, white male, a 45-year-old African-American woman with underlying health issues, or a 56-year-old woman with Down syndrome?
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@EloraBasu2@MClerkship We know that there are long standing and complex racial disparities in our prison system.
https://t.co/fTEP2lxZsp
Now they're being compounded by COVID-19.
https://t.co/2Od6uAZvYS
How does race affect #COVID19 ? This article in the NEJM takes a look at differences in outcomes between black and white patients in a Louisiana health system. Here's what they found: https://t.co/fzThEorQkG
4/ Past redlining reveals structures that still impact the health of current residents. History matters. In areas with long legacies of disparities, this matters! To achieve health equity it’s necessary to look at how we got to the inequity in the first place. @MClerkship
1/ Old maps still matter!
Impact of redlining on current health is explored by Dr. Krieger et al. https://t.co/8Jz05o0US9
Taking maps of redlined neighborhoods and intersecting them with recent census data, they reveal the current neighborhood status within past borders.
3/ They not only find previously redlined areas have more late stage breast and lung cancer diagnoses, but also that this holds true even if the current neighborhoods are now economically well! #socialdeterminantsofhealth#SDOH