Tag: Joe Neel

  • Nation & World

    The problems with LGBTQ health care

    A significant number of LGBTQ patients experience stigma and discrimination not just in their everyday lives, but in the health care system, a problem that can be addressed by increased awareness by physicians and other providers who treat them.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Racial discrimination still rules, poll says

    A panel at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health discussed a poll that found more than half of African-Americans reported being discriminated against in the workplace and in police interactions.

    4 minutes
    Panelists in last week's Chan School Forum "Discrimination in America: African American Experiences," were Dwayne Proctor (from left), Elizabeth Hinton, David Williams, and Robert Blendon.
  • Nation & World

    Inequality runs deeper than health law

    The Affordable Care Act has narrowed health disparities along class and race lines, but not nearly as much as needed.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    A wake-up call on Ebola

    The Dallas Ebola case was a black eye for emergency room workers who sent a Liberian man home even though they were told he had just arrived from the epidemic zone. But the case could act as a wake-up call for emergency workers around the country, panelists say.

    5 minutes