"Health equity is about fixing health gaps that are fixable," he said. "And often, health inequity reflects an injustice, in that we have not paid enough attention to what can be fixed." Putting it in more concrete terms, Galea said there could be many reasons why one person has higher...
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consolidated barriers and facilitators of equity/inequity factors and summarized how these factors influence the prenatal patient experience or health outcomes when accessing/using health services, globally. The included studies represent 20 different countries. In addition...
precision medicine;health equity;community health;FQHCs;All of Us 1. Precision Medicine in Community Health Centers Investment in precision medicine research aims to deliver targeted treatments, highly accurate diagnostics, and enhanced capacity to prevent morbidity and mortality, thus improving health outc...
Equity in Health Care: A Qualitative Study with Refugees, Health Care Professionals, and Administrators in One Region in Germany. BioMed Res. Int. 2020, 2020, 4647389. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Newbold, B.; McKeary, M. Investigating the Diversity of Canada’s Refugee Population and Its ...
cultural backgrounds. This indicates that, as US health care providers work to activate a maternal health ecosystem that improves pregnancy and child health outcomes, it’s important to understand people’s unique experiences and needs when using digital tools to support maternal health and equi...
This week, we will learn about intervening at the provider level to address racial inequity. To understand the foundations of provider interventions, we must first have a basic understanding of concepts and definitions we often see associated with provider-level approaches to achieving health equity....
The pursuit of equity is one of the basic principles behind the strengthening of health care reform. China’s new rural cooperative medical insurance (NRCMI) and urban residents’ basic medical insurance (URBMI) are both “equalized” in terms of fundrai
Our results show that there are four types of MCH inequity among ASEAN: (1) high overall-coverage high equity, (2) high overall-coverage structural inequity, (3) low overall-coverage structural inequity, and (4) low overall-coverage high inequity. Thailand and Viet Nam are characterized by ...
Therefore, we used a Delphi method (using panel of experts) to assign an equity score for each disease condition and subsequently their corresponding interventions based on which segment of the population (poor vs. rich, rural vs. urban, etc.) is more likely to be affected by the specific ...