ObjectiveTo quantify associations of the community-level material deprivation index (CMDI) with asthma diagnosis by age 5 years among preterm infants with bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD).MethodsWe conducted a retrospective cohort study of preterm infants with BPD, born between 2010…

Health systems are built to respond reactively to health concerns, but improving health - while reducing health disparities - requires creative thinking and proactive planning at multiple levels within and beyond the walls of the health care system.In our Population Health Sciences…

Hospital-at-home (HaH) seeks to deliver hospital-level services in the home setting for patients with acute illness. For more than 30 years, these programs have been found to be safe and cost-effective for adults, with outcomes comparable to traditional hospital care. HaH care models…

Congenital anomalies, affecting 3–5% of pregnancies annually in the United States, are a leading cause of fetal and infant mortality. Despite advancements in fetal care, disparities in care access, quality, and outcomes persist and remain poorly understood. This perspective introduces…

Background and objectives: New regulations require hospitals to screen patients for health-related social needs (HRSNs). Neighborhood indices, like the Child Opportunity Index (COI), may help identify families at risk of experiencing HRSNs and inform targeting of health system…

Importance: Differential adherence to efficacious preventive medications is one potentially modifiable driver of racial disparities in childhood asthma outcomes.Objective: To determine the effect of a financial incentive-enhanced intervention on adherence to inhaled asthma preventive…

Many pediatric health systems have recently implemented social needs screening and support programs in response to the link between social needs and children’s health outcomes, as well as mandates and incentives from payers and regulatory organizations. In developing processes for…

To date, health disparities in critically ill children have largely been studied within, not across, specific intensive care unit (ICU) settings, thus impeding collaboration which may help advance the care of critically ill children. The aim of this scoping review is to summarize the…

Telehealth presents both the potential to improve access to care and to widen the digital divide contributing to health care disparities and obliging health care systems to standardize approaches to measure and display telehealth disparities. Based on a literature review and the…

Introduction: Undergraduate medical education and graduate medical education lack formal curricula on providing care for lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer/questioning (LGBTQ+) youth. The onset of the COVID-19 pandemic has led to further challenges in delivering…