With over 125,000 lives lost to coronavirus in the past few months, the need for adequate healthcare access has never felt more pressing. And yet, there is an impasse.
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There is a lot of evidence out there that pharmaceutical promotion drives physician prescribing practices in ways that are not consistent with the evidence and can lead to overuse of expensive products which leads to excessive health care spending. Also, this can lead to overuse of products in cases where they are not medically recommended which can lead to bad patient outcomes.
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Today, we see healthcare-related messaging in the 2020 Democratic presidential primaries shift towards healthcare reform as a fight for justice, which is intimately tied to the battle for pharmaceutical regulations and youth-led social movements on the opioid epidemic.
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Even after 30 years of acknowledging racial and ethnic mental health service disparities, the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality continues to report that racial/ethnic minorities have less access to mental health services, are more likely to use emergency departments for care, and are increasingly likely to obtain poor quality services.
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In an attempt to draw much needed attention to the plight of these communities, this project employed a mixed-methods approach to study population health and health disparities in the rural Black Belt.
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