Does access to free medication reduce health system costs?

Healthy People 2030 Leveraging Healthy People to Advance Health Equity Health equity is the attainment of the highest level of health for all people. “Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all.”

How a ‘weighted lottery’ helped underserved patients get a scarce Covid drug

We estimate that if the PHE expires in April 2023, 18.0 million people will lose Medicaid coverage in the following…

Around one fourth of the United States population does not have adequate health literacy.
Health literacy is defined as the ability to obtain, read, understand, and apply healthcare
information

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Charitable Pharmacies of America organization member receives Health Equity grant

How Many People Might Lose Medicaid When States Unwind Continuous Enrollment?

‘Unbelievably good price’: KC-area pharmacy dispenses bargain medicine — and hope Go to article

Three Healthcare Organizations Join Forces to Save Lives

The pharmacy industry sees at least five changes

Recent federal legislative and regulatory updates in managed care pharmacy have prioritized topics ranging from expedited access to novel therapeutics to the health disparities and equity concerns affecting patient populations nationwide, but progress on these developments will depend on the impact of the midterm elections

Today’s release of new 2020 Census data provides population counts of nearly 1,500 race and ethnicity groups and American Indian and Alaska Native (AIAN) tribes and villages.

St. Vincent de Paul Charitable Pharmacy offers article regarding impact of a charitable pharmacy on their community and patients

The term digital divide is defined as the differences
of economic and social inequality in both access and usage of ICTs. 2, 3 Some population groups that are
affected by the digital divide include uninsured, at or below 300% of the Federal Poverty Level (FPL), lack
of internet access, etc