Health Disparities

The Promise of Digital Health: Then, Now, and the Future

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 27, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Digital Health in the 21st Century Over the past several decades, the development and accelerated advancement of digital technology has prompted change across virtually all aspects of human endeavor. The positive and negative effects of these changes have been...

Building Community Power to Achieve Health and Racial Equity: Principles to Guide Transformative Partnerships with Local Communities

by Madeleine Deye | Jun 13, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

Introduction Leaders and practitioners across industries—including public health, health care, and clinical settings; local, state, and federal government agencies; and academic institutions—are asking hard questions about what it will take to achieve health equity....

Community Power and Health Equity: Closing the Gap between Scholarship and Practice

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jun 13, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

    Introduction The last few decades have seen an upsurge in research linking health outcomes to the “conditions in the environments in which people are born, live, learn, work, play, worship, and age,” commonly referred to as the social determinants of...

Why Community Power Is Fundamental to Advancing Racial and Health Equity

by Madeleine Deye | Jun 13, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

Introduction Health researchers, leaders in health care and public health, and funders have long valued the concept of community engagement, when residents authentically connect on issues or amplify their voices to drive policy decisions affecting the health and...

Can Preferentially Prescribing Angiotensin II Receptor Blockers (ARBs) over Angiotensin-Converting Enzyme Inhibitors (ACEIs) Decrease Dementia Risk and Improve Brain Health Equity?

by Madeleine Deye | May 9, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Currently, there are no effective disease-modifying treatments for Alzheimer’s disease and related dementias (ADRD) (National Institute on Aging, 2021). In this context, considerable attention has been given to prevention of ADRD. The 2020 report of the Lancet...

Human Health and Equity in an Age of Robotics and Intelligent Machines

by Jenna Ogilvie | Mar 21, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

  Advances in robotic technologies and intelligent machines will transform the way clinicians care for members of our community within a variety of health care settings, including the home, and, perhaps of far greater importance, offer a means to create a much...

Leveraging the Urgency of Economic Disparities Driven by the COVID-19 Pandemic to Strengthen the U.S. Safety Net

by Jenna Ogilvie | Feb 7, 2022 | Commentary, Perspectives

  The adverse economic impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic have contributed to socioeconomic and health disparities in the United States, with a disproportionate impact among low-income persons and communities of color. However, these disparities documented over the...

Digital Health COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>     Over the last decade, some of the digital technologies that have profoundly transformed industries from banking to media have, at last, arrived in health...

Patients, Families, and Communities COVID-19 Impact Assessment: Lessons Learned and Compelling Needs

by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 29, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >>   Introduction The health system exists to serve the most fundamental need of society: people’s health and well-being. To do so effectively requires engaging people...

Improving Behavioral Health Services in the Time of COVID-19 and Racial Inequities

by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 1, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives

  Introduction The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), coupled with the increasing awareness of racial inequity in the United States, as sparked by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police officers, has led to a moment of reckoning...