Health Equity
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jul 15, 2013 | Commentary, Perspectives
Introduction In this commentary, Dr. Regina Benjamin highlights accomplishments of the National Prevention Council, an unprecedented gathering of multiple federal departments and agencies whose policies and practices bear on health. Authorized under the Affordable...
by Laura DeStefano | Jun 21, 2013 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
In April 2013, in collaboration with the Connecticut Health Foundation, the Institute of Medicine’s (IOM’s) Roundtable on the Promotion of Health Equity and the Elimination of Health Disparities convened a public workshop with community leaders and health policy...
by Jenna Ogilvie | May 9, 2013 | Commentary, Perspectives
We have long known that factors outside of medical care—race, education, housing, income, and other social determinants—are the most important drivers of how healthy or sick we are. It is not new information that people of color get unequal health care and have poorer...
by Laura DeStefano | Jan 24, 2013 | Commentary, Perspectives
Health equity has been defined in many ways, but essentially the concept focuses on promoting social justice rather than economic or social status as the primary means for determining access to good health and well-being (Braveman, 2006). Another way, however, of...
by Laura DeStefano | Jan 18, 2013 | Commentary, Perspectives
Equity is not a contemporary concept. The Oxford English Dictionary defines equity as “the quality of being fair and impartial: equity of treatment. A branch of law that developed alongside common law in order to remedy some of its defects in fairness and justice,...
by Laura DeStefano | Oct 18, 2012 | Commentary, Perspectives
In September 2000, the United Nations (UN) Millennium Declaration [1] established the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to accelerate efforts to reduce extreme poverty and related barriers to human development. At the Rio+20 World Summit on Sustainable Development,...
by Laura DeStefano | Sep 13, 2012 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Equity was identified as one of the six core dimensions of a high-performing, high-quality health care system in the landmark Institute of Medicine (IOM) report Crossing the Quality Chasm (2001). The report concluded that health care should be “equitable, (that is)...
by Laura DeStefano | Jul 27, 2012 | Commentary, Perspectives
American health care faces challenges in access, cost, and quality and in marked geographic and socioeconomic variability. While these challenges will require actions by federal and state governments, they also call for action by individual health systems. Actions by...
by Laura DeStefano | Feb 24, 2012 | Commentary, Perspectives
Amidst the politicized and polarized debate on health care policy, it is encouraging to know that the goal of this discussion remains unchanged; Republicans, Democrats, conservatives, and liberals all seem to agree that we should be working to create a high-value,...
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