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- The logical conclusion is that racism and discrimination must be central concerns—for practitioners, researchers, and institutions—to advance health equity. This issue also shows how systems intersect to perpetuate inequities.
www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(22)02533-8/fulltext
Recently, growing calls for health equity and social justice have raised awareness of the impact of implicit bias and structural racism on social determinants of health, healthcare quality, and ultimately, health outcomes.
- A Roadmap and Best Practices for Organizations to Reduce ...
The Institute of Medicine’s Crossing the Quality Chasm...
- A Roadmap and Best Practices for Organizations to Reduce ...
The Institute of Medicine’s Crossing the Quality Chasm report stated that equity was one of six components of quality, 27 and the IOM’s 2010 report Future Directions for the National Healthcare Quality and Disparities Reports highlighted equity further by elevating it to a cross-cutting dimension that intersects with all components of quality care. 28 Major health care organizations have ...
Dec 21, 2023 · Acknowledging the significance of race and ethnicity and SES enables researchers and policymakers to address the root causes of health disparities and implement data-driven interventions to improve equity. Intersectionality With Other Disadvantaged Social Groups and Chronic Conditions.
Dec 10, 2022 · The logical conclusion is that racism and discrimination must be central concerns—for practitioners, researchers, and institutions—to advance health equity. This issue also shows how systems intersect to perpetuate inequities.
Feb 8, 2024 · Another meta analysis found that of over 20,000 clinical trials in the US, just 43% reported any race or ethnicity data at all. And among those that did, around 8 in 10 participants were white. Diversity in clinical trials is crucial to overcoming healthcare disparities and improving equity. Properly testing the efficacy and safety of the ...
Improve Data Collection on Inequities. The US health care system does not collect, use, or report data on race and ethnicity in a uniform, comprehensive, or timely manner. The collection of data by race and ethnicity must become a national priority.
Oct 18, 2021 · Leaders at University of California Los Angeles (UCLA) Health, for example, have created equity dashboards to detect variation in patients’ health care quality or outcomes by race, ethnicity, gender identity, age, sexual orientation, and community-level social vulnerability.
