Health equity is a public health priority, yet little is known about commitment to health equity in health departments, especially among practitioners whose work addresses chronic disease prevention. Their work places them at the forefront of battling the top contributors to disparities in morbidity ...
Objectives: To reveal the equity of health workforce distribution in urban community health service (CHS), and to provide evidence for further development of community health service in China. Methods: A community-based, cross-sectional study was conducted in China from September to December 2011. ...
The third and the last course of the Addressing Racial Health Inequity in Healthcare specialization will go through various approaches that are used to addressing racial inequity in healthcare., and the strengths and challenges of those approaches. You w
Feds grant $100 million to grow healthcare workforce September 6, 2024 | Jeff Lagasse Former HHS leader joins Stanford Health Care as chief health equity officer August 23, 2024 | Jeff Lagasse Ohio State launching AI app to record patient and physician conversations August 22, 2024 | Susan...
Explore how various programs at the local, state, and federal levels in the United States are applying lessons from recent public health responses to bolster the public health workforce
To further support our diverse workforce, we offer a variety of Employee Resource Groups (ERGs). These groups are employee-led and provide a forum for employees to bond over shared identities and experiences. We continuously refine our hiring methods to ensure they are transparent, fair, and mit...
requires closing the opportunity gap; placing equity at the center of public health aims; incorporating health equity measures into public health initiatives from the start; and infusing diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) into the workforce. Public health leaders cannot tackle health equity alone...
Former US government official and social entrepreneur Raj Panjabi shares insights on the importance of community health workers and health equity.
COVID-19 health equity perspectives: China Yingyao Chen COVID-19 pandemic and its successful control and management in China demonstrates that health is at the top priority in response to the serious disease outbreak consequences, compared with economic implications, such as GDP growth rate. In th...
Health equity is concerned with disparities in health that are systematic, avoidable, and unfair; that is, where differences in health have social, economic, or political causes as opposed to biological causes.22, 23 Concern for health equity goes beyond the health system to include structural ...