Hundreds of women in the United States die during and after pregnancy and childbirth every year. Deaths are even higher among Black women, who die at a rate nearly 3.5 times higher than white women. Black women are also more…
The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine recently released a new report, Ending Unequal Treatment, on racial and ethnic health care disparities in the United States. During an in-person, one-hour forum, report contributors will highlight themes from the report related to the future of health care delivery and education.
For decades, policy and workforce experts alike have been concerned about the shortage of mental health professionals, as the number of individuals needing mental health services outpaces the numbers of mental health practitioners.
This series is intended to help health policy and other audiences understand how the elements of Kaiser Permanente's integrated care model combine to support better health and health care.
In this Forum we'll learn what policies could improve digital equity across individuals and communities.
The fight for prescription drug affordability took a major step forward with enactment of the Inflation Reduction Act. This law aims to curb unsustainably high drug prices by allowing Medicare to negotiate prices with manufacturers for certain drugs and penalize…
I came across a picture, by the Iranian photographer and artist Bahareh Bisheh, of a little girl, curled up in a fetal position on the ground, laying inside a stick figure of what appeared to be a woman drawn with…
In this Forum we learned what policies could improve our effectiveness at helping people get and stay stably housed, and how to improve the health of individuals and our communities.
Social ills, such as substandard housing and food insecurity, fuel sicknesses that our health care system must then address. What we don't often consider—but should—is that many of these social and structural problems are also legal problems. As such, they may have legal solutions. Health care workers (and health care budgets)…
