Laundromats offer a promising outreach setting for Medicaid payers because Medicaid enrollees represent a majority of laundromat users and have disproportionately high levels of unmet needs.

Algorithmic bias can create and exacerbate health disparities. Famously, in 2019 Obermeyer and colleagues showed that an algorithm that used predicted health-care costs as a proxy for health-care ...

Bilal Arshadullah ’24 was a 2023-’24 Health Care Ethics Intern and the inaugural recipient of the Fellowship in Health Equity and Innovation with the Markkula Center for Applied Ethics at Santa Clara ...

A new study led by the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute finds that mental health care gaps for U.S. children remain stark: one in five households reported a child needing treatment, yet nearly a ...

Decades of strict sentencing laws, the racially motivated “War on Drugs,” and simultaneous erosion of community mental health and social services have contributed to the American public health crisis ...

The power and significance of a preventative approach to healthcare is built on patient education and backed by results. A study in the Journal of the American Osteopathic Association found just 45 ...

Rescinding any social determinants of health-related guidance or otherwise reducing Medicaid’s power in the states contradicts the Trump administration’s supposed interest in state flexibility and ...

The ACA will directly impact individuals and their interactions with the health care system in many ways. In the context of the commissioned paper (described in Chapter 2 and available in Appendix C), ...