Miscellaneous
This government-run hospital system was created to provide long-term care and medical services for U.S. veterans.
What is the Veterans Affairs (VA) hospital system?
This unethical medical study injected Black men with an STI and denied them treatment, leading to modern research protections.
What is the Tuskegee Syphilis Study?
This federal nutrition assistance program helps low-income individuals afford food.
What is SNAP?
Often shortened to DEI, it is an organizational framework that promotes fair treatment and full participation of all people.
What is Diversity, Equity and, Inclusion?
This group has the highest maternal mortality rate in the United States, regardless of income or education.
Who are Black women?
These two monthly outdoor tabling events, held on Wednesdays and Mondays, promote cultural inclusivity and community on USC campus.
What are Hip Hop Wednesday and Lunes Latino?
An African American woman who had cells taken from her in Baltimore shortly before her death from cervical cancer. HeLa cells, named after her, went on to become fundamental to a large amount of modern medical research.
Who is Henrietta Lacks?
This federal health insurance program primarily serves adults age 65 and older.
What is Medicare?
This phenomenon occurs when healthcare providers’ unconscious attitudes affect diagnosis, treatment, and patient outcomes.
What is implicit bias
Often overlapping with regions affected by poverty and limited healthcare access, this part of the U.S. is called the “Stroke Belt.”
What is the Southeastern United States
The federal public health agency responsible for issuing vaccine guidance while monitoring disease trends and health disparities in the U.S. is headquartered in this city and state.
What is Atlanta, Georgia?
This epidemic disproportionately affected LGBTQ+ men in the 1980s and was worsened by stigma and a delayed government response.
What is HIV/AIDS?
This law requires emergency departments to provide care regardless of insurance status.
What is EMTALA, Emergency Medical Treatment & Labor Act?
This is the process of improving access to care for people with disabilities or other barriers.
What is accessibility?
This international organization works to improve health worldwide and reduce global health disparities.
What is the World Health Organization (WHO)?
This student-led medical organization supports medical and pre-medical students underrepresented in medicine and promotes health equity.
What is the Student National Medical Association
These healthcare providers, before physicians, historically cared for marginalized women and their babies when hospital access was limited.
Who are Midwives?
Before this 2010 law, insurers could legally exclude coverage for conditions they labeled as “preexisting,” including pregnancy and depression.
What is the Affordable Care Act?
Economic stability, education level, and neighborhoods in which one lives are all examples of this term.
What are Social Determinates of health?
This U.S. population has the highest uninsured rate, contributing to delayed care and worse health outcomes.
Who are Hispanic/Latino individuals?
Despite representing a small number of U.S. medical schools, these four HBCU medical schools produce a significant percentage of the nation’s Black doctors.
What are Howard University College of Medicine, Meharry Medical College, Morehouse School of Medicine, and Charles R. Drew University of Medicine and Science?
In the 1950s, early trials of the birth control pill were conducted by the U.S. on women on this island, often without full informed consent.
What is Puerto Rico?
This federal agency provides healthcare services to Native American and Alaska Native populations.
What is the Indian Health Service (IHS)?
This term describes long-standing patterns of inequality embedded in laws and systems.
What is structural or systemic inequity?
In South Carolina, this many counties do not have a single practicing OB-GYN, highlighting gaps in maternal healthcare access.
What is 14 counties