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Especially in NYC, focusing efforts to improve healthcare for undocumented immigrants is an efficient way to target healthcare spending

Interesting! Most people don't often link homelessness to diabetes, so this is an interesting issue to address.

How can we improve healthcare for PWID? #healthequity, #socialdeterminantsofhealth, #SDOH, #socialjustice, #healthdisparities @MClerkship

@JulieKim22 This is an important article that you have shared. Thank you for providing us with a valuable insight about this clearly paramount structural health issue

How does race affect #COVID19 ? This article in the NEJM takes a look at differences in outcomes between black and white patients in a Louisiana health system. Here's what they found: nejm.org/doi/full/10.10…

@alexijkoo These are good ideas to improve health outcomes in an increasingly-visible minority group. Thank you for your thoughts

So how can we reduce stigma? The review mentions changing school policies to be less prejudiced against LGBT students; implementing anti-bullying/hate crime laws; and increasing exposure to sexual minority health in medical school so physicians are more comfortable w/ LGBT pts

This review looked at how stigma, defined as othering/discriminating minorities thru negative stereotypes leading to status loss/ discrimination, affects the LGBTQ community thru the lens of minority stress theory (i.e. stigma leads to health disparities) clinicalkey.com/#!/content/pla…

Bureaucratic schedules, particularly for disability benefits and accommodations to changing circumstances prevent people from obtaining prescriptions and getting care they need. #healthequity, #socialdeterminantsofhealth, #SDOH, #socialjustice, #healthdisparities @MClerkship

This article introduces the concept of active waiting, describing how poor Americans with chronic illness cope with the process of waiting for healthcare services at every level. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Poor Americans with chronic illness spend a large proportion of their time waiting for all sorts of health-related services.