How to mitigate risk and foster resilience among vulnerable populations during COVID-19

Policy
May 30, 2020

Over the past two months, health professionals and community advocates have brought to the fore of national attention what has been the lived experience of many within black and brown communities for ages — racism kills. The substrate of structural racism and systemic inequities, now combined with a catalyst, COVID-19, is accelerating fatalities among those who are disproportionately burdened by chronic diseases …

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How to mitigate risk and foster resilience among vulnerable populations during COVID-19

How much thought do you give to health literacy?

Physician
August 21, 2016

It’s Friday afternoon at 4 p.m., and Mr. Anderson walks into my endoscopy suite as the last patient of the day. He’s a 65-year-old publicly-insured male who presents for a screening colonoscopy. He’s 20 minutes late, because he went to registration in the surgery department. He is convinced “looking for cancer” requires surgery.

In triage, the nurses learn that he has held his Coumadin for five days as personally instructed by …

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How much thought do you give to health literacy?