MFP/ANA e-Newsletter: March 11, 2022

HEALTH DISPARITY RELATED ARTICLES

COVID-19 takes a heavy toll on women’s health (opens new window)

Disruptions to essential health services due to the COVID-19 pandemic are being felt broadly. As the world marks International Women’s Day, a new World Health Organization (WHO) analysis finds that women’s health services are far from being fully restored, with 40% of African countries reporting disruptions to sexual, reproductive, maternal, newborn, child and adolescent health services. Read more (opens new window)

The Social Component of Diabetes Health Disparities: New Directions in Analyses and Interventions Through Social Networks and Structures (opens new window)

Extensive Diabetes Health Disparities (DHD) exist in the prevalence, control, and rates of complications of type one and type two diabetes. One important and promising direction for tackling this challenge is to engage people living with diabetes, their families and communities, and other components in their social networks in and beyond clinical settings.  Read more (opens new window)

Trevor Project expands digital crisis services to LGBTQ youth in Mexico (opens new window)

LGBTQ youth in Mexico will soon be able to access support from trained counselors through digital crisis services provided by The Trevor Project, an organization that runs crisis intervention and suicide prevention services for LGBTQ people under 25. Read more (opens new window)

The population prevalence of solitary confinement (opens new window)

Solitary confinement is a severe form of incarceration closely associated with long-lasting psychological harm and poor post-release outcomes. Estimating the population prevalence, we find that 11% of all black men in Pennsylvania, born 1986 to 1989, were incarcerated in solitary confinement by age 32. Reflecting large racial disparities, Read more (opens new window)