User:Dreamyshade/Healthcare projects
Health equity
[edit]All of these need fact-checking and additional citations:
- Cultural competence in healthcare
- Free clinic
- Health equity
- Healthcare in the United States#Demographic differences
- Healthcare availability for undocumented immigrants in the United States
- Race and health
- Structural inequality#Healthcare
- Societal racism#Health inequities
Also:
- Young Lords - improve coverage of healthcare-related activism, including occupation of Lincoln Hospital (Bronx)
Contributions of Black leaders to the American healthcare safety net
[edit]Suggested references:
- "The Fight for Health Care Has Always Been About Civil Rights" (2017), in The Atlantic, by Vann R. Newkirk II
- The Power to Heal: Civil Rights, Medicare, and the Struggle to Transform America's Health Care System (2016), by David Barton Smith
- Book available online: Body and Soul: The Black Panther Party and the Fight against Medical Discrimination (2011), by Alondra Nelson
- Related thesis, “To Give Medicine Back to The People”: Community Health Activism of The Black Panther Party (2008), by Emily Rose Schiller
Medicaid, CHIP, Medicare, and HHS-funded community health centers
[edit]- Marian Wright Edelman and Children’s Defense Fund - expand coverage of contributions to the establishment of CHIP (see mention in CHIP article). Example sources: newspaper article, another article.
- Jim Clyburn - incorporate support for the ACA into the Healthcare section. Example source: newspaper article - “Clyburn, who counts the health care law among the proudest accomplishments of his more than two decades in Congress”
- Chiquita Brooks-LaSure - expand coverage of career; what has she done as CMS administrator over the past couple years?
- National Medical Association - edit for “neutral” tone; add citations related to advocacy for national health insurance; cover advocacy for Medicare and Medicaid
- Marilyn Gaston - improve writing; find sources with relevant material and add citations
- David Satcher - add citations, incorporate support for ACA (example newspaper article)
Civil Rights history and anti-discrimination work
[edit]- Medical Committee for Human Rights - find reliable sources with relevant material and add citations to those sources
- George Simkins Jr. - add citations (see Simkins v. Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital for context)
And more!
[edit]Freedom House Ambulance Service - are there any archival photos suitable for inclusion? Is this article properly linked from related articles about the history of paramedic services?