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Health Equity Fact Sheet Health Equity CDC - Centers for …

(9 days ago) WEBThe Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) is committed to ensuring health equity is embedded in an all-of-public health approach to overcoming persistent health disparities and health inequities across a range of population groups that …

https://www.cdc.gov/healthequity/core/fact-sheet/index.html

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Report examines racial and ethnic disparities in health, health care

(6 days ago) WEBRacial and ethnic health disparities persist across the United States, even in states with otherwise high-performing health systems, according to the latest …

https://www.aha.org/news/headline/2024-04-18-report-examines-racial-and-ethnic-disparities-health-health-care-access

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Pandemic-Driven Health Policies To Address Social Needs And …

(Just Now) WEBStark disparities during the COVID-19 pandemic led to new health policy funding and interventions addressing social needs and social determinants of health to …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/do/10.1377/hpb20220210.360906/

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Report Finds Widespread Health Inequities in United States

(4 days ago) WEBThe analysis, “Achieving Racial and Ethnic Equity in U.S. Health Care: A Scorecard of State Performance,” released by the Commonwealth Fund last month, …

https://www.aafp.org/news/health-of-the-public/20211223inequityreport.html

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Health Disparities Report 2021 - America's Health Rankings

(2 days ago) WEBAmerica’s Health Rankings Health Disparities Report, produced by the United Health . Foundation, documents the breadth, depth and persistence of health disparities across …

https://assets.americashealthrankings.org/app/uploads/2021_ahr_health-disparities-comprehensive-report_final.pdf

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Advancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care: State Disparities

(6 days ago) WEBAdvancing Racial Equity in U.S. Health Care. The Commonwealth Fund 2024 State Health Disparities Report. Dr. Reshma Chugani checks 7-year-old Zoe …

https://www.commonwealthfund.org/publications/fund-reports/2024/apr/advancing-racial-equity-us-health-care

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In crisis, health equity gets overlooked. That must change.

(3 days ago) WEBWithin this guide, the AMA has outlined critical COVID-19 health equity resources to examine the structural issues that contribute to and could exacerbate …

https://www.ama-assn.org/delivering-care/health-equity/crisis-health-equity-gets-overlooked-must-change

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HHS Releases 2023 Update to Equity Action Plan, Outlines New

(Just Now) WEBToday, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) released the 2023 update to its Equity Action Plan, in coordination with the Biden-Harris …

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2024/02/14/hhs-releases-2023-update-equity-action-plan-outlines-new-commitments-advance-equity.html

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Covid-19 and Health Equity — Time to Think Big NEJM

(Just Now) WEBTo achieve health equity, we need to reach beyond the health care system — and think big. New social policies on a few key fronts could advance both health …

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMp2021209

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Health Equity: What It Means and Why It Matters - Yale Medicine

(7 days ago) WEBHealth equity issues have hit Black and Latinx communities especially hard in the pandemic. Data from the CDC shows that, in the U.S., people in these two groups …

https://www.yalemedicine.org/news/health-equity

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2024 Health Equity Outlook Report EY - US

(4 days ago) WEBHealth equity – current landscape, priorities and investments. Organizations are making advancing health equity a priority, but their approaches and areas of focus differ.

https://www.ey.com/en_us/insights/health/2024-health-equity-outlook-report

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Health equity - World Health Organization (WHO)

(7 days ago) WEBHealth equity. Equity is the absence of unfair, avoidable or remediable differences among groups of people, whether those groups are defined socially, …

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

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Health Equity - American Public Health Association

(2 days ago) WEBAPHA Health Equity Fact Sheets, Briefs, Reports and Infographics. COVID-19 Vaccination: An Equitable Response urges equity as a priority to curb the pandemic's devastation on …

https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/health-equity

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Why Racial Inequities Still Persist in Health Care - The New York …

(7 days ago) WEBThe ensuing criticism led to the resignation of the top editor and culminated with a pledge to increase staff diversity and publish a more inclusive array of papers. …

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/08/17/health/racial-disparities-health-care.html

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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 …

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

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Disparities in Health and Health Care: 5 Key Questions and …

(9 days ago) WEBKFF Headquarters: 185 Berry St., Suite 2000, San Francisco, CA 94107 Phone 650-854-9400 Washington Offices and Barbara Jordan Conference Center: 1330 …

https://www.kff.org/racial-equity-and-health-policy/issue-brief/disparities-in-health-and-health-care-5-key-question-and-answers/

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What is health equity? How the idea grew – and why it matters

(9 days ago) WEBGalea, who has been studying health equity issues for a quarter century, uses this one: If one person is taller than another, that's an inequality that can't be fixed. …

https://www.heart.org/en/news/2024/04/24/what-is-health-equity-how-the-idea-grew-and-why-it-matters

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2023 Health Equity Outlook Report (pdf) - EY

(9 days ago) WEBThe inaugural 2023 Health Equity Outlook Report demonstrated strong cross-sector momentum in the health equity space. Provider, payer, public health, life …

https://assets.ey.com/content/dam/ey-sites/ey-com/en_us/topics/health/ey-2023-health-equity-outlook-report.pdf?download

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Breaking down the barriers to health equity - PMC - National …

(3 days ago) WEBBreaking down the barriers to achieving health equity begins with identification and acknowledgement of the issues and inciting factors, not only by …

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8855465/

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Achieving Health Equity in the United States - American Public …

(5 days ago) WEBMoreover, it is estimated that from 2003 to 2006 the combined costs of health inequities and premature deaths in the United States totaled $1.24 trillion and …

https://www.apha.org/policies-and-advocacy/public-health-policy-statements/policy-database/2019/01/29/achieving-health-equity

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The 2022 National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Report: We …

(9 days ago) WEBMaternal health: The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate of industrialized countries, and the 2022 NHQDR shows that this rate is increasing. The overall maternal …

https://www.ahrq.gov/news/blog/ahrqviews/2022-national-healthcare-disparities-report.html

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Year in Review: 10 Health Policy Issues for 2023 KFF

(9 days ago) WEBHere’s a look back at 10 issues KFF tracked closely this year with some of our top findings summarized: Health care costs continue to be a burden for many …

https://www.kff.org/affordable-care-act/fact-sheet/year-in-review-10-health-policy-issues-for-2023/

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The US Health Equity Crisis—An Economic Case for a Moral …

(7 days ago) WEBThe US faces a health equity crisis. Income inequality has steadily increased over several decades, as have disparities in health outcomes between the richest and poorest US …

https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jama/fullarticle/2804847

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Paving the Road to Health Equity - OHE - CDC

(2 days ago) WEBThe intent of this article is to describe how some current policies and policy areas that have a health equity orientation are being used with the aim of reducing health disparities. …

https://www.cdc.gov/minorityhealth/publications/health_equity/index.html

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Racial health disparities exist in every state, new report says - Axios

(Just Now) WEBEven states that made progress narrowing racial and ethnic health disparities have considerable gaps on access, outcomes and quality of care, a new …

https://www.axios.com/2024/04/18/racial-health-disparities-every-state

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Health Care Policy In 2023: Five Areas To Watch Health Affairs

(8 days ago) WEBApril 2024, Perinatal Mental Health & Well-Being March 2024, Nursing Homes, Medicaid, Physicians & More February 2024, Housing & Health View Issues …

https://www.healthaffairs.org/content/forefront/health-care-policy-2023-five-areas-watch

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What is health equity? How the idea grew – and why it matters

(2 days ago) WEBBraveman first heard the term in the early 1990s, when she was doing work for the World Health Organization. In the U.S., she said, academic interest initially focused …

https://www.sfgate.com/news/article/what-is-health-equity-how-the-idea-grew-and-19420356.php

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