The Enabling Environment: Payment Models Report is the third report produced from a research collaboration between the Tubman Center for Health & Freedom and Byrd
We’ve known that having a healthcare provider that looks like you is important in creating trusting relationships and improving the health outcomes of marginalized communities. Now, a new study has found that simply having Black doctors in your county—whether you receive direct care from them or not—is associated with longer life expectancy and lower mortality among Black community members.
The Washington State Health Insurances Plans – Comparison Report is the second report produced from an ongoing research collaboration between the Tubman Center for Health
There’s increasing attention being paid to social determinants of health (SDOH) and non-medical health-related social needs. Clinicians are collecting data on social determinants of health,
Community-directed is the way to go! Where does your work fall on this Community Engagement Scale?
Our health and well-being mean more than our physical state— it includes our spiritual, mental, and emotional parts of our body. Health and well-being are about our whole selves. And when our bodies– our whole selves– have been impacted by historic and systemic racial trauma, ALL of our parts need to be included in healing practices.
Asking for help is not always easy—especially when it involves something as personal as mental health. In a society that stigmatizes mental health and mental health treatment, suffering silently is a tradeoff many are willing to take.
The lump in your throat. The pit in your stomach. The exasperated exhale that sneaks past your lips. The feeling of holding your tears back. The rush of fear, anxiety, hurt, anger, and disappointment. Far too many of us have become familiar with the rush of emotions that follows exposure to racism.
We all choose to take care of ourselves in different ways. While health is the state of physical, mental, and social well-being, wellness is the conscious, self-directed, and active pursuit of complete health.
The decision to receive a vaccine is deeply personal. Receiving accurate, transparent, and easy-to-understand information may aid your decision-making process.
Our Blaxinate! campaign aims to reduce COVID-19 vaccine uptake disparities in the Black community by bringing the vaccine to the people.
People of Color have always understood racism to be a public health crisis. Those of us living at intersections of oppression understand that the very act of walking the earth in our bodies makes us vulnerable to assault and attack in every area of our existence.
“I can’t breathe.”
As the last words of far too many Black people who have been murdered at the hands of law enforcement, this slogan has become a cry for racial justice and police accountability. While chokeholds are one of the causes of respiratory deaths among Black people, it is not the most common.
We are the grocery store workers, nurses, social workers, bank tellers, Uber drivers, caregivers, and fast food workers. The ones who leave the safety of our homes each day to provide for our families. The ones who are afraid of contracting COVID-19 and spreading it to our loved ones. The ones who do not have the luxury of working from home.
That feeling of hopelessness when you scramble for words to try and express how you feel, the symptoms you’ve been experiencing, how long ago, and any allergies you could have to medications can mean life or death. In the healthcare field, communication barriers can arise when the patient and the healthcare provider do not speak the same language. Research has highlighted that due to communication failures between patients and doctors results in medical errors, incorrect doses of medicine, and inaccurate diagnoses.
Foremost, the conversation around vaccines must begin with the medical establishment acknowledging and taking responsibility for the medical distrust they have created in Black and Brown communities across the country through unethical research, mistreatment and discrimination.
Homelessness is a clear threat to health and human rights. As the King County Health Through Housing initiative states, “the ability to sleep in a bed, to use a bathroom, to feel safe, and to have the dignity of a place to be are foundations of health.” The treatment of homeless individuals in the United States has even been criticized by the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
