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AMA: Equity must be baked into expansion of telehealth

It is essential for physicians to serve as leading partners in efforts to improve access to telehealth services in marginalized and minoritized communities.

Press Releases
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Why denying addiction treatment in jails, prisons is inhumane

Evidence shows medications to treat substance-use disorder treatment in jails and prisons are lifesaving, yet they’re too often denied. Learn more with the AMA.

Population Care
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AMA releases plan dedicated to embedding racial justice and advancing health equity

New strategy represents three-year roadmap for action, historical reflections on past harms, and accountability in operationalizing equity and justice.

Press Releases
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What we need to advance equity: reflection, partnership, accountability

With new plan, the AMA will use its resources and influence to help dismantle structural racism and work toward a more equitable future for all people.

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Leadership Viewpoints
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How the pandemic makes life harder for people with disabilities

Learn more from the AMA about the challenges patients with disabilities—especially schoolchildren—are facing every day during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Population Care
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Prioritizing Equity video series: COVID-19 & disability

In the latest Prioritizing Equity series, health justice leaders and advocates as discuss the ways in which COVID-19 uniquely impacts people with disabilities.

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Population Care
Prioritizing Equity Video Series
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Prioritizing Equity video series: COVID-19 Vaccine & Equitable Distribution

In the AMA's first Prioritizing Equity panel of 2021, leaders in health justice discuss strategies for equity in the distribution of COVID-19 vaccines.

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Prioritizing Equity Video Series
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COVID-19 FAQs: Health equity in a pandemic

AMA looks at some of the reasons why marginalized and minoritized patients have and will suffer disproportionally during the COVID-19 crisis. Read the frequently asked questions on health equity in a pandemic.

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AMA COVID-19 Guides
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Jan. 25, 2018: National Advocacy Update

Waivers on Medicaid work requirement, protections for conscience rights and religious freedom and more in the latest AMA national health care advocacy news.

Advocacy Update