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Shades of Inequity: Why It’s Crucial to Diversify Medical Illustrations

NonProfit Quarterly

Throughout the overlapping worlds of science and medicine, thin, White, young, heteronormative bodies are seen as the standard, and are most often represented within medical textbooks. For aspiring care providers who use medical textbooks, illustrations essentially provide the first visual guide for diagnosing and treating medical conditions.

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Closing Care Gaps: Physician Shortages, Medical Deserts, and Health Disparities

NonProfit Quarterly

However, in the United States, the number of physicians and surgeons—including specific medical and surgical specialties that are vital for vulnerable populations—is in decline. Some of the medical and surgical specialties that treat conditions more common in older Americans…are among those most significantly impacted by potential shortages.

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Music: A Prescription for Health and Social Connection

NonProfit Quarterly

1 And without intervention, health inequities will persist. For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? For public health professionals, this raises the question: What can be done to mitigate the burden of dementia? What is dementia? Who is impacted by dementia?

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The Other Maternal Health Crisis: Black Birthing People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing

NonProfit Quarterly

Image credit: Isabella Angélica on unsplash.com The dismal statistics on maternal health outcomes in the United States are well-known in health justice, health equity, and health philanthropy circles. However, recent research has revealed that race is even more important than income when it comes to birth outcomes.

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Harnessing the Power of AI for Positive Impact: A Conversation with Juan Lavista Ferres

NonProfit Quarterly

The relationship between AI and health, environmental sustainability, and humanitarian efforts is complex. On the other hand, AI has tremendous potential to help scientists, medical professionals, and researchers solve previously intractable problems and make good on technologists’ claims that AI will transform the world for the better.

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Dismantling Bias: Toward Ethical and Inclusive Health Innovation

NonProfit Quarterly

Advancing innovations that lead to equitable and sustainable solutions in the healthcare system requires interrogating the inequities embedded within research, design, and testing processes for novel health solutions, as well as diversifying the people involved at each stage.

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Gen X Faces Heightened Cancer Risk

NonProfit Quarterly

Generational Cancer Risk According to Race/Ethnicity The increased rates of cancer among Gen X also reflect general disparities in cancer diagnoses by race and ethnicity. The latter could offer some positive news, as early cancer diagnosis improves health outcomes, quality of life, and a person’s likelihood of remission.