{"id":28105,"date":"2019-01-05T04:23:34","date_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28105"},"modified":"2019-01-05T04:23:34","modified_gmt":"2019-01-05T04:23:34","slug":"us-poor-and-minority-areas-turning-into-pharmacy-deserts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=28105","title":{"rendered":"US poor and minority areas turning into &#8216;pharmacy deserts&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"body-170301071804049\" readability=\"70.4599092284\">\n<p>More and more minority neighbourhoods in US cities are becoming what <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/subjects\/healthcare.html\">healthcare<\/a> experts call &#8220;pharmacy deserts&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>From Oregon on the west coast to Baltimore on the east, local drug stores are closing up shop in low-income and minority neighbourhoods.<\/p>\n<p>The decisions may be based on profitability, but with the widening scope of services pharmacies offer in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.aljazeera.com\/topics\/country\/united-states.html\">United States<\/a> &#8211; like physicals, immunisations, drug counselling, sexually transmitted infection screening and other laboratory testing &#8211; residents of poor neighbourhoods struggle to access an increasingly important part of the national healthcare system.<\/p>\n<p>Al Jazeera&#8217;s John Hendren reports from Chicago.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More and more minority neighbourhoods in US cities are becoming what healthcare experts call &#8220;pharmacy deserts&#8221;. From Oregon on the west coast to Baltimore on the east, local drug stores are closing up shop in low-income and minority neighbourhoods. The decisions may be based on profitability, but with the widening scope of services pharmacies offer&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":28106,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-28105","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28105","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=28105"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28105\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28106"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28105"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28105"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28105"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}