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Medicare Has Problems With Seeing Race and Ethnicity: Inspector General's Office
What You Need to Know
The race and ethnicity information in the Medicare enrollment database comes from the Social Security Administration.
HHS Of...
Accountable Care Organizations and Health Disparities of Rural Latinos: A Longitudinal Analysis
The purpose of this study was 2-fold: (1) to analyze the change in diabetes-related hospitalization rates of rural Latino older adult patients as c...
UArizona Nurse Receives Grant to Develop Cancer Health Equity Research Center for Hispanic Patients
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A University of Arizona College of Nursing researcher was one of only four recipients of a $4 million American Cancer S...
Medicare has a data problem
The race and ethnicity data Medicare collects on its beneficiaries is less accurate for such groups as American Indians, Asian-Pacific Islanders an...
Inaccuracies in Medicare's Race and Ethnicity Data Hinder the Ability To Assess Health Disparities OEI-02-21-00100 06-15-2022
06-15-2022 | OEI-02-21-00100 | Complete Report
WHY WE DID THIS STUDY
The disparate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic on various racial and ethnic g...
Oakland declares racism a public health crisis
Good morning, and welcome to the Essential California newsletter. It’s Wednesday, June 15. I’m Justin Ray.
The city of Oakland has declared racism ...
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