As part of a larger study of health equity, the Office of Health Equity conducted 28 structured focus group discussions with employees of Grady Health System. Grady is a safety net hospital, meaning a high proportion of its patients are uninsured and/or underinsured. In addition, the community ...
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 ...
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...
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...
When there is not health equity (meaning, when there is health inequity), health disparities emerge. Health equity usually refers to the non-clinical factors —social determinants of health — that can ultimately affect health outcomes for patients. Some examples of health inequity may inclu...
MeaningWell Helping to build the future of experience, quality, engagement, and equity. What do you mean, “Storytelling?” There’s a growing movement to acknowledge stories and storytelling as a part of healthcare. Most of this work, though, is paraclinical. In other words, stories are to...
Meaning The findings of this economic evaluation suggest that among a large commercially insured population, private equity acquisitions of physician practices were associated with increased health care spending and several measures of utilization. Abstract Importance Private equity acquisitions of physician pra...
Numerous sectors use research in equity for one purpose or another. Nevertheless, the prime sectors to enter for a successful career are banking, healthcare, technology, automation, and automobile. A few other best industries are consumer discretionary and telecommunications. ...
Health system reforms are undertaken with the aim of improving equity of access to health care. Their impact is generally analyzed based on health care utilization, without distinguishing between levels of care. This study aims to analyze inequities in access to the continuum of care in municipaliti...
For this reason, the ISEqH defines equity as "the absence of systematic and potentially remediable differences in one or more aspect of health across populations of population subgroups defined socially, economically, demographically, or geographically." [1] Another contemporary debate on the meaning ...