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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Human Rights Watch (HRW) said Thursday that most countries are failing to meet their human rights obligations by not allocating sufficient public funding to ensure the right to health. The World ...

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

"What gets measured gets done." It's an expression often cited by global health advocates, notes World Health Organization official Erin Kenney. And she says it's the reason she's so encouraged by WHO ...

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 ...

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

For more than a decade, officials in Roanoke, Virginia, have been concerned about glaring health disparities among its residents. If you were to stand looking out a sixth-floor window of the city’s ...