The Texas Department of State Health Services (DSHS) has released its 5 year plan on Health Services for Executive and Legislative Review last month, which focused one of its many recommendations on improving access to health care in rural border counties. The Statewide Health Coordinating Council (SHCC) focused on factors that affect health equity in …
This holiday shopping season, there’s one big purchase that millions of Americans will make: health insurance. In most states, including Nevada, the Open Enrollment Period (OEP) runs from November 1 through January 15. Last year, more than 100,000 Nevadans signed up for health insurance plans on Nevada Health Link — a record number of signups …
A new analysis of the 2018 Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System survey indicated that adults with visual impairments reported having lower access to and use of health care than those without impairments. The results focused specifically on a lower prevalence of having health insurance coverage, a regular health care provider, and receiving dental care, as …
fatima hassan “The reason we brought the case is because we saw the ‘Lazarus’ drugs. We’ve seen them work for people in the United States. We saw them working for people in Europe,” Hassan said. “We have seen what Brazilian and Thai activists are doing to try to put in place mandatory measures for their …
The Latino community knows firsthand what it means for the government to marginalize our health care needs. We are the largest uninsured racial and ethnic majority and are often the target of misinformation and stigmatizing information when trying to access reproductive health care. This is why the Latino community wants to see more intentional political …
Amid the chaos and devastation caused by the U.S. Supreme Court’s gutting of the constitutional right to abortion, the Biden administration has stepped up efforts to protect access to abortion for young immigrant women. pregnant unaccompanied. On November 10, 2022, the Office of Refugee Resettlement (ORR) announced new guidelines to ensure that unaccompanied immigrant minors …
