Study finds Black veterans with opioid use disorder are less likely than White veterans to receive buprenorphine treatment and have lower retention rates 💊🩺📉

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#OpioidCrisis #VeteranHealth #BuprenorphineTreatment #HealthEquity #MentalHealthAwareness

Wealth alone doesn’t make a nation healthy 💰🌍: some of the world's richest countries, such as the US and Canada, lag behind in achieving UN’s health goals compared to smaller economies like Iceland, Japan, and Norway who thrive due to robust and equitable healthcare systems 🏥🌟

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#HealthEquity #GlobalHealth #HealthcareSystems #WealthVsHealth #UNHealthGoals

Black, Hispanic and rural stroke patients nearing death are more likely sent home 🏠 than to hospice 🕊️, a Northeastern study finds.

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#HealthEquity #StrokeCare #EndOfLife #HospitalizationDisparities #HispanicHealth

**Studies link poverty, debt to early death for Americans 💔💸.** Results showed that people whose unsecured debt increased over time had an 89% greater risk of premature death, compared to those whose debt remained consistently low.

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#PovertyAndHealth #DebtImpact #EarlyDeathRisk #FinancialWellness #HealthEquity

Tuberculosis Cases Decrease Worldwide 🌍 Except for the USA 🇺🇸

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#TuberculosisAwareness #GlobalHealth #PublicHealth #TBPrevention #HealthEquity

Adapting Interventions to Culture 🌍 Can Improve Effectiveness 💪 and Cost-Efficiency 💰

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#CulturalAdaptation #EffectiveInterventions #HealthEquity #CostEfficiency #GlobalHealth

Large systematic review of 62 studies finds that both frequency and amount of alcohol consumption increase cancer risk across multiple cancers, including breast, colorectal, liver and oral cancers, with disproportionate impacts among socioeconomically and biologically vulnerable populations. 🍷📊🎗️

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#AlcoholCancerRisk #HealthEquity #PublicHealthAwareness #CancerPrevention #SystematicReview

Global cancer cases reached 18.5 million in 2023, doubling since 1990. With projections of 30 million cases by 2050, researchers warn the world is not ready for this surge, especially in low-income nations. Alarmingly, 40% of deaths remain tied to preventable risks like smoking 🚬 and poor diet 🍔.

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#GlobalHealth #CancerAwareness #PreventableDiseases #HealthEquity #FutureOfHealth

🌍 If cancer diagnoses keep rising year after year, at what point do we stop calling it 'unavoidable' and admit we've normalized a global health crisis 🩺🎗️

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#CancerCrisis #EndCancerNow #HealthEquity #TimeToAct #PreventCancer

💊 Preventive HIV Drugs Underprescribed to Young Women at Increased Risk 👩‍⚕️

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#PrEPforWomen #HIVPrevention #YoungWomenAtRisk #AccessToPrEP #HealthEquity

Methylphenidate 🚫 denied access to WHO’s list of essential medicines 💊 for the third time ⏳

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#MethylphenidateDenied #WHOEssentialMedicines #AccessToMedicine #GlobalHealthPolicy #HealthEquity

Simple blood tests can detect dementia in underrepresented Latin American populations. By combining these blood markers with standard memory tests and brain scans, clinicians can dramatically improve their ability to diagnose memory-robbing conditions in historically underrepresented regions.

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#DementiaScreening #LatinAmericaHealth #BloodMarkers #MemoryDiagnosis #HealthEquity

Buying your way to better health comes at the expense of others. An increase in private health insurance uptake leads to poorer health in the population over time. Paying for private health services may be beneficial for those who can afford to do so, but it comes at the expense of others.

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#HealthEquity #PublicHealth #PrivateVsPublicCare

Study found a significant “wealth gap” among older people in England, with poorer people showing signs of reduced physical function up to 15 years earlier than richer people of the same age. This was still significant even when chronic illness, weight and smoking and alcohol were taken into account.

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#HealthEquity #Aging #PublicHealth

Women Who Experienced Adverse Pregnancy Outcomes Had Higher Health-Related Social Needs, Such as Inadequate Food, Employment and Education Among Black and Latina Women

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#MaternalHealth #HealthEquity #ReproductiveJustice

💡 Workers with unpredictable work hours face health risks, with differing impacts based on gender. A University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign study examined over 61,000 U.S. workers (ages 18-64) from 2016-2024.

👨‍💼 Men experiencing significant week-to-week changes in their work hours were more likely to report worsening health but stayed in their jobs. The probability of health deterioration for men increased from 28% to 38% with greater work-hour volatility.

👩‍💼 Women, however, tended to reduce hours, suspend, or leave jobs due to health issues stemming from unstable work. Their health effects became visible only when health-related work limitations were included as an outcome.

📊 The research, published in SSM – Population Health, highlights that job quality includes schedule stability, not just pay or total hours. The study's authors are Sinyee Qianyi Lu and Professor Tim Liao.

#WorkplaceWellness #LaborMarket #HealthEquity

Women with the same medical condition as men are less likely to be offered treatment such as surgery, a stent or a strong painkiller, research has found published in PLOS One.

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#GenderBias #HealthEquity #MedicalTreatmentDisparities

❤️ Research shows women are less likely to be offered treatments like surgery, stents, or strong painkillers compared to men for the same medical conditions.

🔬 An analysis of 38 global studies found that in 33 of them, women received less active treatment for issues including heart conditions, kidney disease, and Parkinson's.

🩺 For conditions like myocardial infarction and heart failure, women were more likely to be given medication, while men received surgical procedures. Women were also less likely to be prescribed statins.

🧠 Men with Parkinson's were more likely to get deep brain stimulation, and those with liver failure had a higher chance of receiving a transplant than women.

#HealthEquity #GenderGap #MedicalResearch

People were about 19 percentage points less likely to recommend life-sustaining treatment for a seriously ill patient with dementia than for a patient without dementia, even when an advance directive requested life-sustaining care, according to a new study published in JAMA Network Open

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#DementiaCare #AdvanceDirectives #HealthEquity

Who gets Alzheimer’s drugs. U S research shows Black adults had 86% lower odds, and Hispanic adults had 79% lower odds of receiving anti-amyloid medication compared to non-Hispanic white adults

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#AlzheimersResearch #HealthEquity #AntiAmyloidCare