News and Views: masakanai explains how fine-scale population structures can unveil crucial insights into healthcare disparities. Part of our focus on Building Healthy Populations. broadinstitute MGH_RI
Los Angeles is widely recognized for its rich demographic diversity, but how does this diversity translate to healthcare use and disparities? As residents of this vibrant city, Angelenos experience a wide range of health risks and outcomes, which may stem from shared genetics and/or environments within the diverse population groups that they belong to.
Understanding population-level health risks is crucial for providing better treatments and reducing health disparities, particularly in the face of structural racism that strongly impacts healthcare in the USA. In this issue oftake a deep-dive into this issue by exploring the links between fine-scale populations and patterns of healthcare use in a biobank comprising individuals from the LA metropolitan area.
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