Some advocates are pushing to highlight disparities in Georgia and South Carolina as Black Maternal Health Week enters its ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Omer Awan is a practicing physician who covers public health. More than 800 million individuals have diabetes globally, ...

Despite policymakers putting a focus on the issue, mental health parity challenges remain for much of the country, a new ...

The Mental Health Parity Index found 43 states have disparities in access to in-network mental health care and substance use disorder treatment. The tool — created by the American Medical Association, ...

Organizers say multiple factors drive the disparities, including bias and systemic racism within health care.

Adamson is a dermatologist and health disparities researcher at Dell Medical School. Patel is a resident physician at Brigham and Women’s Hospital in Boston. Welch is a general internist at Brigham ...

Louisiana is addressing the maternal and child health crisis by offering coverage for doula services, which provide support ...

A large crowd of city and community leaders rallied Wednesday on the steps of San Francisco City Hall to raise awareness over the city's disparities in Black maternal and infant health.

Health disparities related to tobacco use are not equally distributed among all population groups, the U.S. Surgeon General revealed in a new report on Tuesday. Despite significant progress in ...

The Health Insurance Disparities Index allows stakeholders to assess progress in addressing health care disparities using publicly available, validated, reported health plan quality metrics results.