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Mashup Score: 55Black people are more likely to be physically restrained in emergency rooms, study finds - 1 year(s) ago
A new study, published in JAMA Internal Medicine, highlights how restraint use in the ER can both arise from, and further contribute to, racial bias against patients.
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Mashup Score: 2
This systematic review with meta-analysis examines the use of physical restraint use in adult emergency departments among patients of different racial and ethnic backgrounds.
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In over 1.6 million patient encounters, restraints were used in ERs in less than 1% of clinical encounters, but Black patients are more likely to be physically restrained than adults from other racial groups. Original study: https://t.co/027Ayc70lS
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Mashup Score: 29Faculty-Graduate Seminar - 1 year(s) ago
The Faculty-Graduate seminar is an intimate intellectual community that comes together to discuss work in progress around a common theme across a wide range of disciplines. Our goal is to establish a small but intellectually diverse and committed group of scholars who will attend all meetings and engage in sustained discourse during the year. Ea…
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RT @ruha9: Oh! This reminds me to share the 2023-24 @PrincetonAAS seminar theme, Black Movement :: Black Stillness: https://t.co/7jERcl3HIa…
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Mashup Score: 1013 innovators shaping the future of health - 1 year(s) ago
Each honoree has had a major accomplishment over the last year and is using their influence to increase health and wellness access and equity.
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As I’ve always shared with you all, I feel incredibly grateful to be able to do aligned work in service to our communities. Thank you @LTintheCity, @Fieldsish, and @FortuneMagazine for this recognition! Check out the full list of innovators here! https://t.co/oPPXuj0ND6
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Mashup Score: 6You’re Invited to The Root Institute 2023 - 1 year(s) ago
Speaker details are now live for The Root’s annual gathering of America’s greatest Black minds. Join us for full day of conversations in our nation’s capital.
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For more information and to register: https://t.co/LZqiZP6gwu
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Mashup Score: 54Ruschell Boone, 1975-2023: Beloved, award-winning NY1 anchor - 1 year(s) ago
For 21 years, Ruschell was a member of our staff.
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RT @MaraGay: Hard to take this in. Rest in power, Ruschell. https://t.co/mHPZxApl23
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Mashup Score: 43As Dollar Stores Proliferate, Some Communities Push Back - 1 year(s) ago
Dollar store parent companies say they’re feeding people in ‘food deserts,’ but critics say they’re making food inequity worse. Now, 25 municipalities have some form of moratorium on new stores.
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https://t.co/GnPacD0JQ4
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Mashup Score: 49Dollar Stores Are Targeting Struggling Urban Neighborhoods and Small Towns. One Community Is Showing How to Fight Back. - 1 year(s) ago
Although dollar stores sometimes fill a need in places that lack basic retail services, there’s growing evidence that these stores are not merely a byproduct of economic distress. They’re a cause
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Mashup Score: 81Dollar stores and food deserts - 1 year(s) ago
The purpose of this study is to examine the relationship between dollar store expansion and food access. We begin by documenting the growth of dollar …
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"...Once a dollar store enters a food desert, that area is more likely to remain without access to a supermarket." https://t.co/3gJ1fercMm
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Mashup Score: 105
Some say the stores — disproportionately found in low-income, rural, and Black areas — stifle economic growth and job creation, and exacerbate food insecurity.
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Please follow the work of @andreperryedu of the @BrookingsInst for more. https://t.co/UdX7cpmT6A
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While placing patients in restraints is an overall rare phenomenon, Black patients are 31% more likely to be placed in restraints that white patients. For many Black health professionals, in terms of what we have witnessed, this comes as little surprise. https://t.co/yK2byt0IrO