Health Inequality

After the Supreme Court struck down affirmative action in college admissions, concerns have arisen that a pathway into medicine may become much harder for students of color. Heightening the alarm: the medical field’s reckoning with longstanding health inequities.

To be Black in America is to struggle with health problems from birth to death. The reasons are myriad. The Associated Press spent a year exploring this legacy of racism in a series of stories.

The Florida Blue Foundation is granting $3.7 million to UF Health's Urban Health Alliance to establish the statewide Center for Health Equity and Social Justice.

Social determinants of health are a major reason why people born in one part of Collier County are expected to live 15 years longer than those in other parts of the county, according to federal data.

The authors of the "Global Burden of Disease" report track the toll from every conceivable cause of death or disability. This year they also share intriguing solutions that give cause for optimism.

Watch as experts on income inequality discuss a recent NPR poll that is notable for capturing the views of the top 1% of earners in America. The webcast was livestreamed on Jan. 27.