Each week, Health & Medicine staff gather articles and other readings we find important, helpful, and informative to our work. Read below for a recap of October’s resources:

• Crain’s Chicago Business: Q&A with Health & Medicine Policy Director Wesley Epplin: Hospitals alone can’t close the equity gap
• Crain’s Chicago Business: Operating on the Margins: Chicago hospitals commit to equitable care, but rising costs squeeze budgets and threaten progress 
• Journal of the Association of American Medical Colleges: Critical theory, culture change, and achieving health equity in health care settings
• The New York Times: At 75, the father of environmental justice meets the moment
• The New York Times: Profits over patients: They were entitled to free care. Hospitals hounded them to pay.
• The New York Times: How A Hospital Chain Used a Poor Neighborhood to Turn Huge Profits
• Becker’s Hospital Review: U of Illinois at Chicago School of Public Health creates searchable health database for Cook County
• Chicago Tribune: From touchless faucets to voice controlled lights, technology is making it possible for Americans to age in place
• The Lancet: The Lancet on lessons for the future for the Covid-19 pandemic
• American Academy of Family Physicians (AAFP): Health Equity Fellowship Application due October 30
• NPR Illinois: The mental health crisis and shortage of providers is creating big debt for Americans
• NPR Illinois: Artificial intelligence could soon diagnose illness based on the sound of your voice
• ProPublica: Chilling Audio Provides Rare Glimpse Into Abuse at Troubled Illinois Residential Facility
• Yahoo: How Trauma Before Service is Shaping a Generation of Troops
• Digital Health: A virtual care playbook for driving health equity
• NPR: Millions of Americans are losing access to maternal care. Here’s what can be done
• GoozNews: The Supreme Court v. public health
• Crain’s Chicago Business: Lightfoot’s budget doesn’t include funding to extend Chicago’s basic income program beyond one year
• Illinois Department of Healthcare and Family Services: Pritzker administration announces latest round of Healthcare Transformation Collaboratives, providing over $70 million to increase access and equity in healthcare statewide
• Health Affairs: Nursing Home Residents Younger Than Age Sixty-Five Are Unique And Would Benefit From Targeted Policy Making
• New York Times: ‘The Cash Monster Was Insatiable’: How Insurers Exploited Medicare for Billions
• Chicago Sun Times: Nursing home surprise: Medicare Advantage plans covering less time than Medicare covers
• GoozNews: Behind the medical debt crisis
• New York Times: Retirees are getting an 8.7% Social Security cost-of-living raise, the biggest in decades.
• Columbia Journalism Review: Why we should think twice before using the term ‘migrant’
• Rutgers: Young Children Who Walk or Bike to School Are More Likely to Continue the Habit as They Age
• United States Census Bureau: Do Disabilities Impact Older People’s Moves to Other Locations?
• United States Census Bureau: National Disability Employment Awareness Month: October 2022
• Healio: Racial and ethnic disparities persist for flu vaccination, hospitalization
• NPR: Census shows poverty amongst older populations on the rise
• KFF: The Impact of Gun Violence on Children and Adolescents
• NPR: What it’s like being an abortion doula in a state with restrictive laws
• STAT News: Racial disparities in neonatal mortality even wider with tools like IVF, study finds
• New York Times: What Does ‘Abortion’ Mean? Even the Word Itself Is Up for Debate.