health equity

While much of the legacy of Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. is focused on things like workers’ rights, access to quality education, discrimination, transportation and other efforts trying to dismantle systemic racism, health equity leaders today point to another aspect of King’s work.

It’s an unheralded fact: Of the 24 million to 50 million Americans with an autoimmune disease, like lupus or multiple sclerosis, 80% are women. And a disproportionate number of them are Black.

For residents in Boston and surrounding communities, 2024 saw heightened discussions about the closure of health care facilities and the elimination of health care resources, highlighting gaps that already existed in lower-income areas and communities of color.

For South End residents, a new radiology suite is anticipated to mean improved, faster access to breast cancer screenings and X-rays.

A jam-packed room came together Oct. 4 for the EmpowerHer conference, a health equity conference focused on the health of Black women.

Black women have long faced worse outcomes and higher mortality rates from breast cancer, with ongoing impact from racism within health systems and other barriers that prevent easy access to care.

ew solutions — and now — was the name of the game for health care leaders at the Boston Medical Center’s EQTY 2024 summit last week.

A new initiative from the Urban League of Eastern Massachusetts aims to increase access to mental health services for Black men, a group often left out of behavioral healthcare.

For the 35 years she’s lived in Mattapan, Vivien Morris has centered local health and wellness in her life and work. This focus led her to found the Mattapan Food and Fitness Coalition and the Edgewater Food Forest and to join groups like the Boston Community Health Collaborative as a community resident representative.

Leaders in health-related fields called for increased collaboration and broad structural change at the second annual Health Equity Trends Summit on June 6.

Three health centers in the metro Boston area will pilot research to address health care inequities in communities historically affected by slavery through a Harvard University grant.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, the number of residents in the state facing food insecurity shot up. Those numbers have yet to go down, according to a new report, released May 29, from the Greater Boston Food Bank.