Health Inequities

Examining the root causes and solutions to persistent health disparities across different populations.

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(Part 3) Epidemiology and Race: Why and How We Study Racial Health Disparities

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Feb 26, 2021

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(Part 2) Epidemiology and Race: Why and How We Study Racial Health Disparities

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Feb 26, 2021

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(Part 1) Epidemiology and Race: Why and How We Study Racial Health Disparities

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Feb 25, 2021

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Public Health, Medicine, and Poverty

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Dec 10, 2020

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Air Mattresses and Infant Deaths

Jennifer Doering, Trina Salm Ward

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Oct 18, 2017

Air mattresses are increasingly seen as an affordable and transportable sleep surface. However, there were 108 cases of infant death between 2004 and 2015 involving air mattresses, and this figure may be vastly underreported.

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Health Inequalities in Boston by T-Stops

Sandro Galea

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Nov 2, 2016

Boston is a relatively healthy city, with a high density of physicians and world-class hospitals. But Boston also has some extraordinary differences, both in health indicators and in the drivers of those indicators within its borders.

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Hiding in Homophobia as a Gay Student in Senegal

Nicholas Diamond

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Oct 29, 2016

Part one of PHP's four-part series on LGBT health in Senegal.

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In Conversation with Michael Curry

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