Social Justice – Pediatrics Nationwide

Nephrology Education Ripe With Opportunities to Improve Health Equity

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By: Katie Brind'Amour, PhD, MS, CHES

March 31, 2023

The Health Care Justice Committee of the American Society of Nephrology has released recommendations for incorporating anti-racism and social justice concepts into education and mentoring with the goal of improving health equity. In 2020, leaders in the American Society of Nephrology (ASN) reached out to Ray Bignall II, MD, pediatric nephrologist and assistant chief…

Study Finds High Mortality Rates of Youths Previously Incarcerated in the Juvenile Legal System

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By: Rebecca Cybulski

December 23, 2021

Recent data links youth incarceration to early mortality by homicide, overdose and suicide. New research from the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital finds that youth aged 11 to 21 years, who have been previously incarcerated in the juvenile legal system, are 5.9 times more likely than the general population to experience early mortality.…