LA Times, May 5, 2021.
Los Angeles — Experts bring to light that between 2007 and 2015 there were fewer pharmacies for Latino and black communities in the Los Angeles region, compared to the areas where they lived whiter.
“We focus on cities due to racial residential characteristics/segregation and the fact that more than 80% of the black and Latino population live in cities,” said lead author Dima Mazen Qato, professor and associate professor in the Department of Pharmaceutical Systems and a member of the Schaeffer Center for Health Policy and Economic Sciences.
“One in three neighborhoods in these cities were pharmacy deserts, affecting nearly 15 million people,” said Jenny S. Guadamuz, first author of the study and postdoctoral fellow at the USC Schaeffer Center and the USC School of Public Health’s Drug and Public Health Program.