New evidence of large health care inequality across the USA: Wide variation among states in life expectancy and disability free years documented. The South is doubly disadvantaged: residents have shorter lives and spend a greater proportion of those lives with disability. Among women, disability free years ranged from 45.8 years in West Virginia to 52.5 years in Hawaii, a 6.7-year gap.

https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33600246/

#NICHDImpact #LifeExpectancy #Disability #Healthcare #HealthcareInequality

250,000 Floridians Get Kicked Off Medicaid as DeSantis Rakes in Big Donor Cash

https://www.commondreams.org/news/desantis-donor-cash-medicaid

#CommonDreams #FloridaMedicaidCuts #DeSantisDonorScandal #HealthcareInequality #PoliticalCorruption #PublicHealthCrisis #Politics #News

Improving access to medication abortion in the Black and Latinx communities in the post-Roe era will require making the process more holistic and personal, including flexible schedules and fees, story sharing, social support.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36368036

#NICHDImpact #Abortion #Healthcare #HealthcareInequality #RacialDisparities

Excluding ABPS Certified Emergency Medicine Doctors: A Mistake in the Midst of the COVID Crisis

#CovidCrisis #EmergencyMedicine #HealthcareInequality #PatientCare #ABPSCertified #EmergencyRooms

Emmanuel K. Konstantakos is an orthopedic surgeon.

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