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The Benefits Of Telehealth Among Disadvantaged Communities, Anoosh Arshad
The Benefits Of Telehealth Among Disadvantaged Communities, Anoosh Arshad
Honor’s College Freeman Research Journal
This study aims to understand how the widespread integration of telehealth services affects underserved communities, helping reduce health disparities in this group. Telemedicine includes various technologies and applications, supported by extensive research, public health, administrative, and patient-care benefits, to adapt to different fields. It involves clinical applications that focus on patient care, like making health decisions, and nonclinical applications like arranging board meetings. Telehealth is a health platform that uses communication technologies that allow doctors and patients to meet online through video and telephone visits, ensuring that patients receive high-quality care. It increases access to healthcare by removing geographical and …
Ob Deserts Remain Public Health Concern For New Mexico, Dustin Roberto
Ob Deserts Remain Public Health Concern For New Mexico, Dustin Roberto
HSC Newsroom
As of 2022, one in three New Mexico counties were "OB deserts," places where pregnancy and childbirth care is limited. Distance, hospital closures, and staff shortages make care especially hard to reach for rural, low-income, and Indigenous communities. To help, the University of New Mexico offers a minor and certificate in maternal and child health leadership.