PEW December 8, 2021
New report outlines roadmap to shrink inequities
We all deserve to lead healthy lives, but many factors that affect our well-being are beyond our control. Biased systems and policies deny people access to clean air and water, livable wages, health care, and other basic needs—and, as a result, health inequities emerge.
For example, COVID-19 is at least twice as likely to kill Black, Hispanic, and Native Americans and nearly three times as likely to hospitalize them as White people the same age partly because of where people in these communities work and live. Inequities also affect veterans, people with disabilities, Americans who live in rural areas, people who identify as LGBTQ+, and others. This violates a core mission of...
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