Discrimination is unequal treatment based on physical characteristics or social group assignment. While “to discriminate” simply means to divide, or make distinct, to “discriminate against” connotes ...

SIAM Review contains articles that are written for a wide scientific audience. Articles include expository or survey papers focusing on important advances in applied or computational mathematics, or ...

In unincorporated communities in the United States-Mexico borderlands, historically and socially marginalized populations become invisible to the healthcare system, showing that geography acts as a ...

Race is not a social determinant of health (SDOH). This is because SDOHs are aspects of a person’s environment that affect their health, not aspects of themselves as individuals. However, racism can ...

There's a growing tendency for mainstream economists, including several of those at the Federal Reserve, to dismiss all income disparities as the product of a skills- or education gap, a misleading ...

From 2020 to 2023, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) conducted a national pilot of a rideshare program to support homeless patients’ transportation needs to obtain critical resources and attend ...

Many factors impact our health beyond genetics and aging. Collectively, these are called the social determinants of health, and factors such as: education, housing, income, occupation, hunger, ...