The COVID-19 pandemic has overshadowed major health issues that still impact New Jersey, putting things like HIV prevention on the back burner for public attention. But urban parts of the state like Essex and Hudson counties continue to see relatively high rates of...
The Health Resources and Services Administration projects that 37 states will have a shortage of primary care physicians by 2025, with 12 of them, including New Jersey, having a deficit of 1,000 or more physicians because of the aging American population and the...
School nurses, who were already stretched thin before the pandemic, say that they are overworked and overwhelmed. Even before the pandemic hit, the job of a school nurse extended far beyond tending to playground scrapes. School nurses manage chronic conditions, like...
Blacks and Hispanics in New Jersey fare worse than whites and Asians when it comes to overall health and access to care, according to a national analysis by the Commonwealth Fund, a New York-based nonprofit research group. The analysis — which examined state-by-state...
Based on analysis of 24 health data indicators collected for each state in 2019 and 2020. The report analyzed dozens of factors of health care systems in every state and Washington, D.C., between 2019 and 2020, which showed even states that had higher scores overall...
