Health Masks forever? Here’s why one group is pushing to keep them required in health care settings. Massachusetts's COVID-19 public health emergency runs out on May 11, ending state masking ...

The ADI (Area Deprivation Index) has been a useful tool for many research efforts, and it offers several advantages including accessibility, timeliness, and ease of use. Nonetheless, as we discuss ...

A framework developed by studying the Health Equity Accelerator at Boston Medical Center can help healthcare organizations ...

Any consideration of an enforcement policy must embrace a health equity lens, ... "Mask Mandates: A Public Health Framework For Enforcement", Health Affairs Blog, October 5, 2020 .

If masks are removed in health care settings, she said she would feel unsafe taking her 16-month-old daughter in for necessary care because she is too young to mask and could pass COVID to ...

The Massachusetts Coalition for Health Equity is collecting signatures (more than 740 so far) on an open letter that urges the Department of Public Health, local boards of health, and health care ...

We want to clarify the position of the Massachusetts Public Health Association regarding mask mandates in hospitals and other health care settings as presented in the May 11 editorial, “Doctors ...

UPDATE with Broadway League response In a letter sent to members of Actors’ Equity Association and obtained by Deadline, the union says that the Broadway League’s decision to adopt a “mask ...

May 11, 2016. Many students of public health are familiar with The Gardener’s Tale, the classic and widely taught allegorical framework describing the levels of racism.Published in 2000, its author, ...

Community groups hope government programs to give out free masks and at-home tests will help break down ... Community groups hope Colorado's free mask distribution breaks down health equity barriers.

Home Business News Actors’ Equity Says It Was Not Consulted In Mask-Optional Policy; Broadway League Calls New Approach “Entirely Consistent” With Negotiated Protocols – Update ...

Before the pandemic, Dr. David Alpern, like many health care workers at the time, didn’t think twice about going to work with a runny nose or cough.But since symptoms of COVID-19 are ...