What Even is Primary Care?
Healthcare, in general, can be very hard to understand, access, and navigate, but the good news is that primary health care is actually very simple. The even better news is that it has the incredible potential to help us live better, healthier lives. The problem is that most of us don’t really understand what it is or how to make the most of it. In this post, we’ll dive into what primary care is and provide some examples of how it can help you.
Preparing for your First Telehealth Visit
Like any new technology, telehealth might take some getting used to, but like the car, cell phone, and toaster, we promise it’s going to make your life better. Telehealth is easier, more convenient, can help you to access a more diverse group of providers, and better manage your own care proactively. Here is everything you need to know to prepare for your first telehealth visit.
Health Insurance Terms to Know
Healthcare and insurance can be COMPLICATED, but we’re doing our best to make it as easy as possible. Whether you are starting your primary care journey with Spora Health, or just need help understanding your insurance coverage, this glossary should cover most of the words you are likely to come across and define them in terms we can all understand.
What BIPOC need to know about Medical Gaslighting
Gaslighting that occurs within healthcare between a healthcare professional and a patient is called ‘medical gaslighting. It’s the feeling that as a patient, your reality is being challenged, invalidated, or outright denied. Simply put, medical gaslighting happens when a healthcare provider dismisses or minimizes your health concerns. In this post, we’ll look at what gaslighting looks like in healthcare, how to recognize when it’s happening, its impact on health outcomes, and how you can respond.
Decolonizing the Design of Healthcare
Design is everywhere, and as humans we’re always designing something that solves problems in the world and impacts the experiences of others. You can physically see design at work in everyday objects like chairs and in experiences we have at places like the grocery store, but it also shows up in ways we may not expect like the design of bus routes and healthcare. Design plays a leading role in our lives, shaping values, beliefs, perspectives, cultures, lived experiences, preferences, needs, and more. You may live in a city, use a smartphone, and need medical care on occasion. All of those things were designed – but were they really designed with you in mind?
5 Cultural Foods We Love
The foods you grew up eating that help you feel connected to your roots, country of origin, and ancestors should be celebrated and MANY of these foods have excellent nutritional value and density. It’s an impossible task to try to catalog all of them but here are a few examples that can easily be part of a well-balanced and healthy diet for most people.
Health Equity: A Priority for Everyone
How do we truly humanize healthcare for everyone? Accenture’s Ankoor Shah and Spora Health CEO and founder, Dan Miller, discuss the importance of health equity during the 2022 HIMSS Global Health Conference.
5 Terms to Know To Challenge Cultural Bias in Nutrition
Nutrition is important to leading a healthy life, but cultural bias and discrimination affect the recommendations we People of Color are given and changes they are expected to make. Being aware of these 5 concepts will help to feel more empowered to make better decisions about your nutrition requirements and diet, and hopefully recognize ways in which your choices are being treated unfairly.
The Legacy of the Black Birth Worker
Having a birth worker are trending in certain socio-economic classes and natural births are making a comeback among the privileged. But the truth is that there is a long, proud legacy of birth work rooted in the African American community that grew out of the rural south and was inherited from Africa. It’s these ancestors who have literally helped birth America and as we remember and celebrate their legacy, birthing People of Color are reclaiming these traditions for ourselves.
What is Culture-Centered Care?
What if health care could look and feel different? What if instead of navigating awkwardness and microaggressions, you could trust your healthcare provider and build a rapport with them? What if the treatment plan given to you was easy to understand, tailored to your goals, and in line with your lifestyle, beliefs, and values? Sounds dope, right? That’s what our model of care at Spora Health is designed to deliver. In short it’s called ‘culture-centered care.’
Black Medical Excellence Then, Now, and Forever
Regardless of what month it is, Black history is always worth celebrating. History is a living thing that mostly has been written and rewritten by those with privilege and power. Especially in the field of medicine, we deserve to know, celebrate, and have a place in writing our own history of Black excellence, which is why we’ve put together a quick overview of the way in which people of the African diaspora have always been, continue to be, and will forever be innovators in the field of medicine and healthcare.
7 Ways to Take Control of your Health Today
If you are someone looking to have more success related to your health goals, here are 7 ways you can feel more empowered in your health journey now and more fully own your capacity to be well.
Spora Health is All in for Momnibus
Spora Health is all the way behind Momnibus, the Historic Legislative Package to Address America’s Maternal Health Crisis and working from our own angle to address the standards of care for birthing people of color.