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On infection prevention, it’s time to probe inequity’s role

Microbes don’t care about human hierarchies, but health inequities can impede professional efforts to stop the spread of infections. Learn how.

Health Equity
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How U.S. policy can shape your patients’ health outcomes

You know why social determinants of health matter. Learn from a health equity expert about the political factors that underlie them.

Health Equity
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Five steps to advance racial and health equity in health systems

New AMA toolkit offers guidance on goals and actions.

Press Releases
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2021 medical school class sees enrollment diversity grow

The current class of first-year medical school students made significant gains among Black and Hispanic students, AAMC data shows.

Medical School Diversity
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COVID-19 has hit physicians hard—some more than others

Amid physicians’ pandemic burdens comes another: a rise in disrespect for doctors from historically marginalized racial or ethnic groups, survey shows.

Health Equity
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Inequities in medicine take personal toll on physicians, students

Two physicians and a medical student shared stories of how inequities and racism in medicine have personally impacted them as patients and trainees.

Medical School Diversity
Jan 19 - 20, 2022 ·
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Health Equity Summit: Tackling health inequities

The AMA Center for Health Equity is pleased to announce co-sponsorship for the upcoming Health Equity Summit, Righting the Wrongs: Tackling Health Inequities.

Events
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Learning about health equity is a must. Here’s where to begin.

Earn CME credit while learning with the AMA about the basics of health equity and why physicians must move upstream to improve patient outcomes.

Health Equity
Downtown Prairie du Sac, in Sauk Valley Wisconsin
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Data drives health system effort on social determinants of health

Marshfield Clinic Health System pushes health equity in rural Wisconsin using social determinants of health data and network of community services.

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Health Equity
Health System Spotlight