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Inequities in Boston

A guide for instructors to use as part of their curricula, about inequities that are always present in the Boston area, but have been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.

Health Disparities in Boston

Boston City Council Hearing on Health Inequalities in the distribution of medical resources
Boston City Council Committee on Public Health 4/22/20
‘This Disease is Just Crushing Communities of Color’: Emergency Room Doctors on How COVID-19 is Laying Bare Inequities in Health Care
Dialynn Dwyer, Boston.com Staff, April 24, 2020
Community Health Centers In Mass. Face Financial Strain
Saraya Wintersmith, WGBH News, April 6, 2020
Ensuring Equity in the Response to COVID-19 Webinar
Partners Healthcare, May 19, 2020
Equity in the Covid-19 Response
Mass General Brigham Disparities Solution Center
Health Disparities and Equity
Massachusetts Medical Society, 2020
Health Inequalities in Boston by T-Stops: A Pictorial Essay
Boston University School of Public Health, March 29, 2015
Unhealthy, Unwealthy: Health Disparities in Massachusetts
Clark University, 2017 Massachusetts Family Impact Seminar
Public Health and Spatial Inequality in Boston - Children
DSNI Research Brief, 2009
Disparities in Health
Massachusetts Health Disparities Council, 2011
Racial Justice and Health Equity Framework
Boston Public Health Commission
Social Capital and Health Outcomes in Boston
A technical report from Virginia Commonwealth University

COVID-19, Racism, and Health: Changing Predictable Outcomes

Essentials of Health Justice: A Primer by Tobin Tyler, Elizabeth and Teitelbaum, Joel Bern
Call Number: eBook
ISBN: 1284152081
Publication Date: 2019
Medical Management of Vulnerable and Underserved Patients: Principles, Practice, Populations, Second Edition by Talmadge E. King; et al.
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780071834445
Publication Date: 2016-06-21
Social Epidemiology by Lisa F. Berkman (Editor); Ichiro Kawachi (Editor); Maria Glymour (Editor)
Call Number: ebook
ISBN: 9780195377903
Publication Date: 2014-08-06