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Is a City’s Health Tied to Its Wealth? Healthcare costs are rising, and we are going through one of the worst health crises in decades,” says Gonzalez.
Megan Irby, PhD, a senior research associate at the Maya Angelou Center for Health Equity at the Wake Forest School of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, says that a city’s health appears to be closely tied to its wealth. “Income is the strongest predictor of health in our country,” she says.
Seven of the top 10 cities Portland, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Honolulu, Washington, DC, and Irvine also topped Kiplinger’s 2020 ranking of the 20 most expensive U.S. cities. According to Data USA, the median household income in San Francisco is $112,376 dollars a year, compared with an annual median household income of $36,499 dollars in Brownsville.
As we celebrate the first Black History month since the pandemic began, communities of color continue to suffer disproportionately. An extraordinary panel of physicians made up of Dr. Uche Blackstock, Dr. Oni Blackstock and Dr. Fatima Cody Stanford joins MSNBC’s Yasmin Vossoughian with their thoughts on how we can bridge the racial vaccine gap and combat hesitancy among Black Americans.
By Leigh DeLozier | Emory Report | Jan. 26, 2021
As recipients of Emory’s Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship (clockwise from left), Curley Bonds, Tolton Pace and Fatima Cody Stanford strive to continue King’s legacy of leadership and service in their communities.
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The Martin Luther King Jr. Scholarship is awarded to selected outstanding students who are accepted to Emory.
Most recipients are graduates from Atlanta Public Schools (APS). All APS seniors, regardless of ethnicity, who are accepted into Emory University are considered for this scholarship award.
One scholarship that is funded jointly by Oxford College and the Newton County King Scholar Fund is awarded annually to a student from a Newton County high school who chooses to attend Oxford College. This award continues to Emory College, Goizueta Business School or Nell Hodgson Woodruff School of Nursing.
“We are missing the boat on equity,” says Marcus Plescia, who is chief medical officer at the Association of State and Territorial Health Officials, to Kaiser Health News. “If we don’t step back and address that, it’s going to get worse.”
Part of the issue is that people in minority groups may not be getting all the information they should have about where to get the vaccine and if they are eligible. In a survey conducted by the Kaiser Family Foundation from Jan. 11 to 18, the survey found that six out of 10 “Black and Hispanic adults say they do not have enough information about where to get the vaccine, compared to about half of White adults who say the same,” according to a press release.
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