Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. How long Americans can expect to live varies dramatically -- and the gap continues to widen. A new report says health inequalities ...

Health inequality is associated with measuring and comparing health outcomes of various groups. Some common parameters of measurement are life expectancy, rate of diseases, and disease-free life ...

Two new studies and an accompanying short film have described the experiences of racially minoritized groups with physical and mental health conditions during the pandemic, depicting the inequalities ...

In 2024, the maternal mortality rate (MMR) in the United States and the United Kingdom will grow, although postmortem reviews conclude that 80 percent of maternal deaths in high-income countries are ...

A new study finds that First Nations Children still face long-standing inequalities in health care access in Canada despite ...

Lots of people in this country don’t have access to quality medical care or mental health care. And those inequities are expensive for society. According to a new report from Deloitte and the Meharry ...

Racial and ethnic inequities in health care are found in every state in the U.S. despite the passage of legislation intended to improve health outcomes for minorities and increased awareness of health ...

Organizations can’t sit it out. Health equity can sometimes be discussed in terms of access, but at its core, it is a social ...

Letters: Readers respond to a warning from the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Health on a ‘national embarrassment’ ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has illuminated and amplified the harsh reality of health inequities experienced by racial and ethnic minority groups in the United States. Members of these groups have ...

Background Although avoidable mortality in South Korea has fallen substantially, whether socioeconomic inequality gradients ...