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37 MIN READ

Prioritizing Equity video series: Advocating for Change in Native Health Policy

Medical student organizers and policy advocates discuss increasing access to care in Native communities and improving care through health policy.

Health Equity

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45 MIN READ

Prioritizing Equity video series: Voting and health equity

In this edition of Prioritizing Equity series, learn how voting and health are related and practical tools for physicians and their institutions to support voting.

Health Equity

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35 MIN READ

Prioritizing Equity video series: Advancing Equity Through Quality & Safety Peer Network

Participants from the Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety program share their strategies for operationalizing equity into their quality and safety operations.

Health Equity

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21 MIN READ

Prioritizing Equity Spotlight series: Centering restorative justice in health innovation

This Prioritizing Equity Spotlight session discusses restorative justice in the context of the health care innovation space to center healing and humanity in health care design and technology.

Health Equity

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40 MIN READ

Prioritizing Equity Spotlight series: Collecting history(IES) for restorative justice in medicine

This Prioritizing Equity Spotlight session discusses restorative justice as a collaborative, decision-making framework to accept and acknowledge medicine’s past harmful behaviors, rebuild trust and ensure healing.

Events

Aug 8, 2022 ·
28 MIN READ

Prioritizing Equity video series: Reproductive health care as a human right

Learn how reproductive health care is a human right and connects to health equity, exploring the impacts of the overturn of Roe v. Wade in this Prioritizing Equity discussion.

Health Equity

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20 MIN READ

Prioritizing Equity video series: The Myth of Meritocracy

Explore the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care and how physicians can push past it to advance health equity in this Prioritizing Equity discussion.

Health Equity

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40 MIN READ

Prioritizing Equity video series: Narratives and language

In this AMA's Prioritizing Equity series panel, panelists focus on the power of narratives and language in health care.

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AMA Equity Plan 2021-2023

Embedding equity into medicine requires planning and honesty. To meet this moment, the AMA has developed a plan to advance racial and social justice.

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Put equity into action

Translate your health system’s commitment to health equity into action with the Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Health Systems toolkit.

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