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What is Health Equity? Health Equity CDC - Centers for Disease

(Just Now) WebHealth equity is the state in which everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. Achieving this requires ongoing societal efforts to: To achieve health equity, we must change the systems and policies that have resulted in the generational …

https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/whatis/index.html

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Distinguishing Health Equity and Health Care Equity: A …

(4 days ago) WebAs a first step, one must clearly distinguish between health equity and health care equity. Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. 5-8 …

https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.22.0442

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Health equity - World Health Organization (WHO)

(7 days ago) WebHealth equity is a public health concept describing equity of access to health resources, for genetic, socio-environmental and economic determinants of health varying according to individuals, families and …

https://www.who.int/health-topics/health-equity

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Hospitals and Health Equity — Translating Measurement into Action

(Just Now) WebThe U.S. health care system ranks last on measures of equity among similar high-income countries. 1 Although policymakers and payers have increasingly looked to hospitals to help reduce inequities

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2211648

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Getting Grounded: Building a Foundation for Health Equity and …

(4 days ago) WebAfter we published a 2016 white paper on achieving health equity, 20 we launched the Pursuing Equity Learning and Action Network and, from 2017 to 2019, worked with eight health systems on the role of health care in addressing equity. Today, we are underway with the second round of Pursuing Equity, which resumed in 2020 with 22 …

https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.21.0320

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Achieving Health Equity: Closing The Gaps In Health …

(9 days ago) WebIt targeted patients, providers, clinical staff members, and the health care system to improve hypertension care and reduce racial disparities in blood pressure control in a large clinical

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2016.0158

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Full article: Health equity and health system …

(6 days ago) WebEquity as a foundation to global health. In 1948, the World Health Organisation (WHO) was founded based on a constitutional commitment to ‘the highest attainable standard of health’ as a …

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17441692.2020.1867881

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Embedding equity in crisis preparedness and response in health …

(Just Now) WebTo move towards health equity, we must address the systems, structures, and institutions that have historically and currently contributed to health inequities.The guide has a broad audience in mind: anyone who has a role within a health system that can influence the actions and processes in that system.

https://www.ama-assn.org/about/ama-center-health-equity/embedding-equity-crisis-preparedness-and-response-health-systems

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Health Equity as a System Strategy: The Rush University Medical …

(4 days ago) WebDespite more than a century of literature documenting racial and ethnic health inequities, 1-5 few health systems have made the achievement of health equity a central pillar of their strategy. The confluence of the disproportionate Covid-19 case and mortality rates in people of color and the murder of George Floyd and the subsequent …

https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.20.0674

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Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care

(8 days ago) WebIntroduction. Profound racial and ethnic disparities in health and well-being have long been the norm in the United States. Black and American Indian/Alaska Native (AIAN) people live fewer years, on average, than white people. 1 They are also more likely to die from treatable conditions; more likely to die during or after pregnancy and to suffer …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/scorecard/2021/nov/achieving-racial-ethnic-equity-us-health-care-state-performance

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Health systems and health equity: Advancing the agenda

(9 days ago) WebDespite compelling evidence and decades of policy recommendations, deep inequities in health care still persist by race/ethnicity and other characteristics associated with historically marginalized groups (Lavizzo-Mourey, Besser, & Williams, 2021; O'Kane et al., 2021; Williams, 2012). Hospital and health system leaders have opportunities to create …

https://www.nursingoutlook.org/article/S0029-6554(22)00097-5/fulltext

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Evaluating health-care equity - Challenges, solutions and future

(5 days ago) WebUniversal health-care systems aim to provide care for all, solely according to clinical need. Despite this, the ‘inverse care law’ has been demonstrated to operate in these systems. In this essay we discuss key methodological challenges in the measurement of health-care equity and propose ways forward.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK361257/

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Health Equity in Healthy People 2030

(1 days ago) WebThis focus is reflected in one of the overarching goals of Healthy People 2030: “Eliminate health disparities, achieve health equity, and attain health literacy to improve the health and well-being of all.”. Healthy People 2030’s emphasis on health equity is closely tied to its focus on health literacy and social determinants of health.

https://health.gov/healthypeople/priority-areas/health-equity-healthy-people-2030

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Using Data to Reduce Health Disparities and Improve Health …

(8 days ago) Weband Health Equity (IFDHE) and other hospital and health system leaders who are identified on Page 7. The report also re-flects reviews of published health care reports, surveys, articles and research on health care disparities, data and innovation. A complete list of these source materials appears on Page 8.

https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2021/03/Market_Insights_Disparities_Data.pdf

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Private Equity’s Role in Health Care Commonwealth Fund

(6 days ago) WebStrictly speaking, private equity in health care is a form of for-profit ownership reflecting investment in health care facilities by private parties. In general, for-profit health care organizations can take two forms: private or public. Public, investor-owned organizations sell shares to the public that trade on a stock exchange.

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/explainer/2023/nov/private-equity-role-health-care

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Private Equity Investments In Health Care: An Overview - Health …

(Just Now) WebPrivate equity firms have increased their participation in the US health care system, raising questions about incentive alignment and downstream effects on patients. However, there is a lack of sys

https://www.healthaffairs.org/doi/10.1377/hlthaff.2020.01535

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Supporting Hospital and Health System Boards as We Navigate a …

(5 days ago) WebThe many complexities of health care today continue to challenge hospital and health system governing boards to ensure that high-quality patient care is provided to the communities they serve. AHA and the Institute for Diversity and Health Equity Feb. 28 released the third of its five-part DEI Data Insights series, which highlights results

https://www.aha.org/news/perspective/2024-05-17-supporting-hospital-and-health-system-boards-we-navigate-changing-health-care-landscape

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10 Essential Public Health Services Public Health Gateway CDC

(2 days ago) WebThe 10 Essential Public Health Services (EPHS) describe the public health activities that all communities should undertake. To achieve equity, the EPHS actively promote policies, systems, and overall community conditions that enable optimal health for all and seek to remove systemic and structural barriers that have resulted in health …

https://www.cdc.gov/public-health-gateway/php/about/index.html

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Health equity investment slated to continue into 2024

(3 days ago) WebThe report, out in its second iteration from EY’s Center for Health Equity, detailed a survey of nearly 500 health equity officers.Nearly every respondent (98 percent) said their organization’s health equity efforts will remain at current levels, and 92 percent said they think their organization’s financial investments into health equity will increase …

https://www.techtarget.com/patientengagement/news/366584104/Health-equity-investment-slated-to-continue-into-2024

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Taking action on inequities: a structural paradigm for quality and

(6 days ago) WebUsing this framework, the narrative shifts away from race and ethnicity to a focus on unjust systems, structures and practices responsible for health inequities. As articulated by Arrington and colleagues,1 adopting a racial equity lens to the interpretation of stratified QIPS data is an essential skill that QIPS practitioners must learn and

https://qualitysafety.bmj.com/content/33/6/351

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Advancing Health Equity by Design and Health Information …

(6 days ago) WebONC’s Proposed Approach for Health Equity by Design. Purpose: • Identify how health care systems, public health agencies, and others within the health industry are incorporating health equity principles and actions into their health IT design, development, deployment, analytics, policies, and workflows. • Determine how ONC can best

https://www.healthit.gov/sites/default/files/facas/2024-05-16_Advancing_Health_Equity_by_Design_and_Health_Information_Technology_Presentation.pdf

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Overview of Diversity and Inclusion - RWJBarnabas Health

(Just Now) WebAssociation recognized RWJUH for their efforts to reduce health care disparities and promote diversity within the organization’s leadership and staff with the second annual Equity of Care Award. Diversity MBA listed RWJUH No. 19 in Diversity MBA Magazine’s 2015 rankings for 50 Out Front Companies for Diversity Leadership: Best Places for

https://www.rwjbh.org/documents/rwj%20new%20brunswick/Overview-of-Diversity-and-Inclusion-at-RWJ.pdf

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Is virtual healthcare delivering on its promise? McKinsey

(1 days ago) WebThe COVID-19 pandemic has required patients, healthcare providers, and governments to reimagine how care might be delivered at home, and has revealed opportunities to potentially improve outcomes, reduce costs, and improve patient experience. Telehealthcare adoption 1 Video- or phone-based telehealthcare is only one …

https://www.mckinsey.com/industries/healthcare/our-insights/is-virtual-care-delivering-on-its-promise-of-improving-access

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32 NJ hospitals named LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leaders

(Just Now) WebThirty-two hospitals in New Jersey were named 2024 LGBTQ+ Healthcare Equality Leaders by the Human Rights Campaign Foundation, the third-most in the country.. New Jersey lags only California (98

https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/health/2024/05/08/nj-hospitals-cited-lgbtq-equality-standards/73602550007/

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Health Inequity and Racism Affects Patients and Health Care …

(4 days ago) WebHealth systems should “collect and analyze data on discrepancies in health assessments, health care access, and health care utilization by social determinants and work to ameliorate them,” a clinician comments. Figure 3. Health equity requires time, human resources, and financial support to have similar outcomes.”

https://catalyst.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/CAT.21.0033

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Keep Your Eyes on the Prize - Focusing on Health Care Equity.

(5 days ago) WebMy experiences in the San Francisco Bay Area support the idea that population health is an important function of academic medical centers, and that the role of academic physicians engaged in this work—“physician–public health practitioners”—warrants recognition and development as a distinct academic career track.

https://www.semanticscholar.org/paper/Keep-Your-Eyes-on-the-Prize-Focusing-on-Health-Care-Fernandez-Chin/fa16a5a2d123b8fed5b5229d3223df34402df139

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Is AI Good for Health Equity? California Leaders Weigh In

(9 days ago) WebTo build trust, speakers highlighted the need for health care leaders to be transparent about how AI is used and what safeguards are in place. Lubarsky pointed to VALID AI, a collective of more than 50 health systems, health plans, and research partners that includes University of California health systems. Collective members are working

https://www.chcf.org/blog/is-ai-good-health-equity-california-leaders-weigh-in/

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2024 Michelle Winn Awards Celebrate Achievements in Equity, …

(1 days ago) WebKenisha Bethea is a research program leader with the Duke Clinical and Translational Science Institute’s Community Engaged Research Initiative (CERI) and strives to make Duke a more inclusive and community-driven health care institution, most notably through her work with the AME Zion Health Equity Advocates & Liaisons (HEAL) …

https://medschool.duke.edu/news/2024-michelle-winn-awards-celebrate-achievements-equity-diversity-and-inclusion

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Addressing Trauma in Health Care, Schools, and the Community: …

(5 days ago) WebGNHCC’s mission is to advance health equity for residents of Greater Newark, with an understanding that trauma is one of the main underlying causes of poor health outcomes in the city. education, and criminal justice system partners into trauma-sensitive professionals through tailored trainings; and (3) designing and implementing a core

https://www.traumainformedcare.chcs.org/addressing-trauma-in-health-care-schools-and-the-community-greater-newark-healthcare-coalition/

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AMPATH Kenya: IU and partners create visionary global health …

(1 days ago) Web“Together we have improved access to quality health services for people in western Kenya, and in doing so have saved many, many lives,” said Dr. Adrian Gardner, director of the IU Center for Global Health Equity and executive director of the AMPATH Consortium. “Together we have taught, mentored and inspired the next generation of …

https://news.iu.edu/live/news/35803-ampath-kenya-iu-and-partners-create-visionary

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Why One New York Health System Stopped Suing Its Patients

(9 days ago) WebThe health system undertook new efforts to enroll people in health insurance. New York has among the most robust safety-net systems in the country. “The value is to promote health, to care about a population, to promote health equity,” Benjamin said. “Suing people for medical debt or engaging in extraordinary collection actions is

https://kffhealthnews.org/news/article/diagnosis-debt-rochester-new-york-health-system-stopped-suing-patients-over-medical-bills/

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Who might buy hospitals from Massachusetts to Arizona? Steward …

(1 days ago) WebSteward Health Care was founded in 2010 when the private equity firm, Cerberus Capital Management, bought out the failing Caritas Christi Health Care system in Massachusetts.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/who-might-buy-hospitals-from-massachusetts-to-arizona-steward-health-care-looks-for-buyers/ar-BB1mqbF6

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City of Hope Recognized for the Fourth Consecutive Year as a ‘Top

(5 days ago) WebCity of Hope’s national system of provider and research entities now serves approximately 144,000 patients each year, with more than 12,000 team members, 550 physicians and more than 1,000

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/city-hope-recognized-fourth-consecutive-140000286.html

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Cessation Materials for Tobacco Control Programs

(1 days ago) WebBest Practices User Guide: Cessation, 2020—Addresses how to implement health systems change, increase insurance coverage for cessation treatment, and support state quitlines. Health Equity in Tobacco Control and Prevention —Information on how to identify gaps in health equity and work toward achieving health equity in tobacco …

https://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/php/tobacco-control-programs/cessation-materials.html

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Cota and Hackensack Meridian Health Announce World-First …

(1 days ago) WebHackensack Meridian Health is a member of AllSpire Health Partners, an interstate consortium of leading health systems, to focus on the sharing of best practices in clinical care and achieving

https://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/cota-and-hackensack-meridian-health-announce-world-first-partnership-incorporating-complete-digital-map-of-cancer-into-epic-electronic-health-record-system-300401452.html

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Medicaid Program; Ensuring Access to Medicaid Services

(7 days ago) WebThis final rule takes a comprehensive approach to improving access to care, quality and health outcomes, and better addressing health equity issues in the Medicaid program across fee-for-service (FFS), managed care delivery systems, and in home and community-based services (HCBS) programs. These

https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2024/05/10/2024-08363/medicaid-program-ensuring-access-to-medicaid-services

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