Articles Tagged: Health equity

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From Gazette columnist Althea Cole: Leading trans health authority trades science for politics while ignoring severity of potential complications from treatment.

Cedar Rapids center sees growing need for support and safe spaces for LGBTQ youth in the wake of new Iowa laws banning gender-affirming care for minors and restricting LGBTQ education in schools.

Mercy Medical Center announced it will award over $150,000 in grants to local nonprofits to bolster health equity. The grants go to programs that promote food access, health foods, mental health care access and housing affordability in the Corridor.

Iowa Republican Gov. Kim Reynolds on Wednesday signed into law a ban on gender-affirming care for minors, as well as transgender bathroom restrictions for schools.

Anne Harris Carter has been hired as the first-ever health equity manager at Linn County Public Health. The daughter of Dr. Percy and Lileah Harris, Carter will focus on addressing systematic barriers to health equity, such as racism and poverty, that community members face.

‘The Healthy Project’ creator Corey Dion Lewis initially planned to focus on health coaching throughout his podcast, but shifted focus to improving health equity for vulnerable patients as he heard more and more stories from people of color about their experiences in health care.