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Click, Click, Cook: Online Grocery Shopping Leaves ‘Food Deserts’ Behind
A Yale University analysis found that most people in “food deserts” in eight states would increase their access to healthy, nutritious food if they purchase groceries online and had the food delivered as part of the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
2 Dec 2019
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Blacks, Poor At Higher Risk Of Heart Disease; Overall Death Rate Falls
The death rate from heart disease plummeted nationally over several decades for all racial and ethnic groups, but the rate of decline has slowed slightly and African Americans and low-income individuals are still at a higher risk of developing the disease and dying from it, according to a report from the National Center of Health Statistics.
Source: The CT Mirror
8 Sep 2019
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Ebola Outbreaks Are About Inequality
YSPH Alum Katherine Walter writes about ebola and health equity.
Source: The New Republic
8 Aug 2019
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Mayur Desai Appointed YSPH Associate Dean for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion
Mayur Desai, an associate professor in the Department of Chronic Disease Epidemiology, has been appointed as the Yale School of Public Health’s inaugural associate dean for diversity, equity, and inclusion.
2 Jul 2019
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YSPH, Griffin Receive Nearly $3.75 Million from CDC for Prevention Research Center
The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention has awarded the Yale School of Public Health and Griffin Hospital up to $3.75 million over the next five years for its Prevention Research Center.
20 May 2019
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Racial Disparities Persist in Access to Kidney Transplants
In a new study of patients awaiting kidney transplants, Yale researchers found significant racial disparities. This occurred despite a new system designed to reduce inequities, the researchers said.
3 Apr 2019
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Study links insurance coverage to access to hospital care
A Yale-led study reveals disparities in access to hospital care linked with insurance coverage.
1 Apr 2019
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Junk Food Companies Spend Billions Of Dollars On Ads Targeting Black Children
Black teens saw more than twice as many television ads for fast food, candy, sugary drinks and unhealthy snacks compared with white teens in 2017, according to a new study.
Source: Huffington Post
15 Jan 2019
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Student-run organization focuses on foot care for New Haven’s homeless
One day last July, during a particularly rainy week, Ashton Gores ’18 M.P.H. was working at the Neighborhood Health Project, providing hypertension and diabetes screening for New Haven residents alongside other Yale students. A man walked into the clinic with obvious injuries — including cuts and a bruised ribcage. He explained that he had spent the night sleeping in a bus station when he’d been attacked. He refused the volunteers’ offers to call an ambulance, insisting that he would walk to the hospital instead. Then the man asked if they might give him something for his feet.
29 Oct 2018
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Chile was failing its poorest kids, so it closed the gaps between services
Rafael Pérez-Escamilla, professor at the Yale School of Public Health discusses Chile’s new approach to early childhood development.
Source: Apolitical
31 Aug 2018
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Poor and minority women face widening barriers to depression treatment
Megan Smith, DrPH, MPH, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and in the Child Study Center, is featured in a Connecticut Health Investigative Team story and podcast about depression in women and barriers to care.
Source: Connecticut Health I-Team
2 Jul 2018
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Drug to treat alcohol addiction also helps with suppression of HIV
A medication commonly prescribed to treat alcohol use disorder also appears to help maintain or improve suppression of HIV among individuals at risk for relapse receiving HIV antiretroviral treatment, Yale researchers said.
4 Jun 2018
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Ben Carson Is Wrong: Cutting Housing Benefits Won’t Make People More ‘Self-Sufficient’
Lack of access to something as basic as eyeglasses is one of the many ways that poverty itself serves as a barrier to economic mobility, writes Danya Keene, an assistant professor at the Yale School of Public Health.
Source: Cognoscenti
25 May 2018
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The absurdity of American health care pricing, in one chart
We’ve known for decades now that there is widespread variation in what different hospitals charge for the same medical procedures. Study after study confirms this finding (one of my favorite studies shows that, in California, an appendectomy can cost anywhere between $1,529 and $186,955 depending on where it was performed).
Source: Vox
9 May 2018
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Breast cancer care in U.S. territories lags behind care in states
Older women residing in the U.S territories are less likely to receive recommended or timely care for breast cancer compared with similar women residing in the continental United States, according to Yale researchers. Their findings were published in the March issue of Health Affairs.
5 Mar 2018
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Household immigration status may impact Medicaid enrollment, study finds
Individuals who are eligible for Medicaid and living in households with undocumented immigrants appear less likely to enroll in the public health insurance program in some states, a new study by the Yale School of Public Health finds.
5 Mar 2018
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Researchers reveal Ugandan medicine disparities
A recent Yale study led by School of Public Health professor Mari Armstrong-Hough focused on Uganda’s lack of access to medication for noncommunicable diseases, like heart disease and diabetes. The study pointed out disparities in the availability of essential medicines for these diseases, both regionally and among different types of facilities.
Source: Yale Daily News
20 Feb 2018
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All Health is Local
Byron Kennedy, New Haven’s health director, said his education at the Yale School of Public Health gave him an appreciation of the power of data. He wants to better utilize data to combat the city’s health challenges.
31 Jan 2018
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Yale Cancer Center receives $1 million grant to address cancer disparities
Researchers at Yale Cancer Center (YCC) have been awarded a $1 million grant by the Bristol-Myers Squibb Foundation (BSMF) to address health care disparities in cancer care and support. The grant will fund the Cancer Disparities Firewall project, a multilevel intervention that focuses on patient and system level factors that contribute to cancer disparities in the YCC/New Haven, Connecticut area. The project will target lung, breast, colorectal, and prostate cancer.
22 Jan 2018
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GHJP Works to Address the Skyrocketing Cost of Medicines
Addressing the skyrocketing cost of medicines and examining what it means when people cannot afford life-saving medications.
Source: Yale Law School
16 Jan 2018