Inthis episodeof theMcKinsey on Healthcarepodcast, McKinsey partner Carlos Pardo Martin talks with Errol Pierre, senior vice president of state programs at Healthfirst, about working with diverse communities, how to go all in on health equity, and the urgent need to ensure that vulnerable populatio...
“Health and health care disparities refer to differences in health and health care between groups,”saysthe Kaiser Family Foundation. “A ‘health disparity’ refers to a higher burden of illness, injury, disability, or mortality experienced by one group relative to another. A ‘health c...
IN 1988, I ATTENDED A WORKSHOP of healthcare service managers sponsored by the King's Fund of London. Participants included such managers and the odd academic from the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada, Australia and New Zealand. We were discussing resource allocation, and frustration ...
The purposes of this bibliography are to present an overview of the published literature on equity in health and to summarize key articles relevant to the mission of the International Society for Equity in Health (ISEqH). The intent is to show the direct
healthcare coverage as a primary goal at its seventieth session [1]. However, the uneven distribution of health human resources and the insufficiency of medical service supply remain global issues [2,3]. Therefore, the World Health Organization (WHO) emphasizes the need to achieve sustainable ...
Research finds that many health care system employees are uncertain about the meaning of 'health equity' Wolters Kluwer Health Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain In a major hospital system in Atlanta, less than one-fourth of employees were able to define either equity or health equity, according...
Diversity Takes a Hit—in the Boardroom After steadily increasing for the last decade, the number of Black directors appointed to corporate boards fell for the second consecutive year. Read more This Week in Leadership Purpose: A Year in Review The evidence that helping people find meaning in...
International Journal for Equity in Health BioMed Central Research Open Access Exploring the equity of GP practice prescribing rates for selected coronary heart disease drugs: a multiple regression analysis with proxies of healthcare need Paul R Ward*1, Peter R Noyce2 and Antony S St Leger3 ...
Socioeconomic inequalities in the use of outpatient services in Brazil according to health care need: evidence from the World Health Survey p pBackground/p pThe Brazilian health system is founded on the principle of equity, meaning provision of equal care for equal needs. However, little is kno...
Two previous studies that assessed horizontal inequity in health care in Brazil pointed to a decline in pro-rich inequity--meaning that use of services became less concentrated among the richest from 1998 to 2008 [19, 20]. In a broader context, over the past fifteen years, Brazil has ...