User:Dreamyshade/Healthcare projects

Health equity

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

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

• 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

• 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!

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?