In the delicate landscape of end-of-life care, a glaring disparity casts a long shadow over the African-American community, underlining a tale of historical injustice...
Palliative care involves discussing what matters most to a patient’s quality of life, such as being able to care for their pets.
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There is a Black and White divide in American medicine. COVID-19 is hitting African Americans and other minority ethnic groups hard, creating a renewed...
Elections Have Consequences #1
Presidential elections impact Americans’ lives in a wide array of ways. It’s widely maintained that the outcome of the 2020 contest...
by Stacy M. Brown, NNPA Newswire Senior National Correspondent
As President Donald Trump flip-flops on whether he would back a new stimulus proposal to help...
BPT)—Some 60 million Americans receive Medicare benefits each year to help pay for health care and prescription drugs, according to the federal Centers for...
Candi Castleberry-Singleton, Chief inclusion officer, UPMC and Yvonne Cook, Vice president of community and health initiatives,Highmark Blue Cross Blue Shield Every day, people make decisions about their health care. They read directions on a prescription label. They determine how much medicine to take or give to a loved one. They see TV ads for specific medications. They have conversations with health care providers or their health insurance companies. People need to be able to understand health information. It is essential to good health. Health literacy is the degree to which people get, use and understand basic health information and services to make good health decisions. But research shows that most health information is not presented in a way that many adults easily understand. According to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, more than one third of U.S. adults have difficulty with common health tasks, such as following directions on a prescription medicine label or sticking to a childhood immunization schedule using a chart. Not being able to do such tasks correctly can lead to serious health problems.
