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Health Equity

Making Strides in Sustainability: Health Leaders Share Lessons on Pathways to Climate Action, an interview with Dr. Cam Patterson, Chancellor of the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences and CEO of UAMS Health

by Jamie Durana | Jan 16, 2024 | Feature Stories

Climate change is increasingly affecting the health and well-being of people across the United States, leading to worsening health outcomes that disproportionately impact communities that have been marginalized. Hospitals and health systems are committed to supporting...

Making Strides in Sustainability: Health Leaders Share Lessons on Pathways to Climate Action, an interview with Dr. Janice E. Nevin, President and Chief Executive Officer of ChristianaCare

by Jamie Durana | Dec 4, 2023 | Feature Stories

Climate change is increasingly affecting the health and well-being of people across the United States, leading to worsening health outcomes that disproportionately impact communities that have been marginalized. Hospitals and health systems are committed to supporting...

Three Climate and Health Lessons from Nepal Ahead of COP28

by Madeleine Deye | Nov 29, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives

Perched on the southern slope of the Himalayas, between two massive greenhouse gas–emitting countries—India and China—is Nepal. Nepal is a low-income, landlocked nation in South Asia and one of the nations that are most vulnerable to climate change because of its...

Making Strides in Sustainability: Health Leaders Share Lessons on Pathways to Climate Action, an interview with Dr. Airica Steed, President and Chief Executive Officer of MetroHealth

by Jamie Durana | Nov 8, 2023 | Feature Stories

Climate change is increasingly affecting the health and well-being of people across the United States, leading to worsening health outcomes that disproportionately impact communities that have been marginalized. Hospitals and health systems are committed to supporting...

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services Is Taking Action to Strengthen Primary Care

by Madeleine Deye | Nov 7, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Why We Need to Strengthen Primary Care   The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recognizes that effective primary care is essential for improving the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities and advancing health...

Systems Thinking for Public Health: A Case Study Using U.S. Public Education

by Madeleine Deye | Nov 7, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  ABSTRACT | The initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States largely focused on addressing the immediate health consequences from the emergent pathogen. This initial focus often ignored the related impacts from the pandemic and from mitigation...

Fight for a More Equitable Future and Commit to Our Social Contract: Advice to the Medical School Graduates of 2023

by Laura DeStefano | May 31, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives

This commentary is adapted from commencement speeches delivered by Victor Dzau at the University of Pittsburgh and Tulane University. Graduates, as newly minted health care providers, researchers, and educators, you join thousands of others around the globe connected...

Health Technology for All: An Equity-Based Paradigm Shift Opportunity

by Madeleine Deye | Dec 14, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Executive Overview The health of the U.S. population faces a seemingly intractable shortfall in the prospects for large numbers of people, including and especially people of color, long confronting the consequences of structural racism. Yet, rather than focus...

A Global Equity Model (GEM) for the Advancement of Community Health and Health Equity

by Madeleine Deye | Nov 14, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Introduction The United States has shown that higher health care spending does not guarantee better health outcomes. Despite consistently leading the world in health care spending per capita, U.S. population health outcomes are poor (Papanicolas et al., 2018)....

Accountable Communities for Health: What We Are Learning from Recent Evaluations

by Madeleine Deye | Oct 31, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Background Accountable Communities for Health (ACHs) are multisector, community-based partnerships that bring together health care, public health, social services, other local partners, and residents to address the unmet health and social needs of the...