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ArticleThe Milbank quarterly2021

The Communication Infrastructure as a Social Determinant of Health: Implications for Health Policymaking and Practice.

Taylor Goulbourne, Itzhak Yanovitzky

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Article in The Milbank quarterly, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 23 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

23 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

2 authors.

Taylor GoulbourneSchool of Communication and Information, Rutgers University.ORCID 0000-0001-5223-988X
Itzhak YanovitzkySchool of Communication and Information, Rutgers University.ORCID 0000-0001-6366-8006

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Policy Points Persistent communication inequalities limit racial/ethnic minority access to life-saving health information and make them more vulnerable to the effects of misinformation.  Establishing data collection systems that detect and track acute gaps in the supply and/or access of racial/ethnic minority groups to credible health information is long overdue. Public investments and support for minority-serving media and community outlets are needed to close persistent gaps in access to credible health information.

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CommunicationConsumer Health InformationHealth PolicySocial Determinants of HealthHealth PromotionHumansMinority GroupsPolicy MakingUnited Stateshealth disparitieshealth equityhealth policyhealth promotion

Identifiers

PMID33528043
PMCPMC7984672

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