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Articles
- The Role of Medical Students in Advocacy: Strengthening Reproductive Health Education Our resolution urged the AAP to advocate for explicit curricula on reproductive health topics, including pregnancy options counseling, reproductive justice, and laws related to reproductive health access.
- Outbreaks in U.S. Migrant Detention Centers — A Vaccine-Preventable Cause of Health Inequity Expanding beyond practices for Covid-19, the U.S. government could require systematic data collection and public reporting for all vaccine-preventable infectious diseases in migrant detention centers.
- Collaborating With Service Users to Select Psychiatry Residents Committed to Health Equity and Social Justice Advocates have called for health services to be delivered equitably to all. Academic psychiatry must play a role in this work, given its history of creating and perpetuating the marginalization of people experiencing mental health issues.
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF), What Can the Health Care Sector Do to Advance Health Equity? By
Braveman P, Gottlieb L, Francis D, Arkin E, and Acker J. Despite the strong links between health and social conditions, inequities in the social determinants of health have traditionally been viewed as beyond the purview of health care. That sentiment
is rapidly changing amid growing recognition among payers and providers that inequities in employment, housing, environment, transportation, and education limit the benefits of health care, drain resources, and make it challenging for health care
organizations to operate efficiently. Making sure everyone has a fair and just opportunity to live the healthiest life possible would benefit society and the health care sector.
- Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. Executive Summary A large body of published research reveals that racial and ethnic minorities experience a lower quality of health services and are less likely to receive even routine medical procedures than are white Americans.
Websites
- American Public Health Association (APHA)
- Institute of Health Equity
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention CDC
- Welcome to Latinos Living Healthy! by LULAC
- World Health Organization (WHO)
