The United States healthcare system is facing a critical challenge- a growing shortage of healthcare professionals, driven by the retirement of the baby boomer generation. This demographic shift began as baby boomers reached retirement age in the early 2010s, reshaping the healthcare workforce while increasing the demand for services. My thesis titled, “Examining the Association… Read more »
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The Racial Divide in Accessing Prenatal Care: Why White and Black Mothers Face Different Premature Birth Risks
Black women are three times more likely to have a pregnancy-related death, compared to White women, and infants born to Black women are over twice as likely to die in their first year of life, relative to those born to White women. One contributing factor to those statistics can be attributed to a mother receiving… Read more »
The Future (In Medicine) Is Female
Picture yourself receiving healthcare. Who is your physician? Do you see a man or a woman? That may depend on the medical specialty. If you are a woman seeing your gynecologist, do you see a man or woman? Likewise, if you are a man seeing your cardiologist, do you see a man or woman? Men… Read more »
Mental Health in the City: A Divergent Approach to Analyzing Municipal Policies
Changes in Access to Urban Mental Healthcare Access to affordable substance abuse treatment has become an increasingly relevant policy issue in large American cities. Annual drug-induced deaths in the United States has more than doubled in the past decade, with the majority of these cases being concentrated in the country’s urban centers. As… Read more »