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This toolkit, comprised of fact sheets, worksheets, sample communications materials, and sample social media is designed to help aid how you support your own mental health journey, along with your community’s.
Health Equity in Healthy People 2030
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.”
APhA lauds FDA’s delay of the Nov ’23 “Track & Trace”
FDA approves 1 Year delay of Track & Trace requirements
How does cost affect access to healthcare?
Uninsured adults and those in worse health continue to report higher rates of not getting care due to costs
Charitable Pharmacies: What They Are and How They Help People Access Medications
How is a charitable pharmacy different from other types of pharmacies?
Inflation Reduction Act, Health Equity at Forefront of Federal Policy Action Amid Midterms
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
Health Equity vs Health Disparity
An opportunity for charitable pharmacies to collaborate with oncology practices for non-oncology medications during and after treatment.
5 states broaden reimbursement for pharmacists
The five most recent states to expand the scope of reimbursement for pharmacists are Maryland, Missouri, North Dakota, Virginia and Wyoming
Digital Divide: Patient & Provider Perspective
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
CMM in Team-Based Care
The Outcomes of Implementing and Integrating Comprehensive Medication Management in Team-Based Care: A Review of the Evidence on Quality, Access and Costs, December 2023
Weighted Lottery Fairly Allocates Scarce Drug
How a ‘weighted lottery’ helped underserved patients get a scarce Covid drug
Medicaid Unwinding:
Implications for Patients
Implications for Patients
Once the continuous enrollment ends, it is estimated between 5 -14 million individuals will be affected
NOVA & APHA offer Health Equity Fellowship
NOVA ScriptsCentral is excited to collaborate with the American Pharmacist Association to launch the “NOVA ScriptsCentral & American Pharmacist Association Safety-Net Health Equity Fellowship”.
Social determinants holding health implementation back
The COVID-19 pandemic forced discussions about social determinants of health (SDOH) back into the forefront of healthcare discussions. Knowing that 80% of a person’s health outcomes are impacted by these external factors – economic, social, community, education, and more – we, as industry leaders, must shift these discussions about SDOH implementation from a lofty goal into a reality. How do we get there?
Hunger in America
More than 34 million people in the United States were living in food insecure households in 2021, a decline from 38 million in 2020. The combination of the expanded child tax credit, Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program benefits, and private donations all contributed to reducing food insecurity during the pandemic. Still there is much more work to be done, with food costs spiking 11.4%, the largest annual increase since 1979, inflation factors could easily cause food insecurity to grow.