Topic in Focus: Health Care Equity

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3 keys to help your practice achieve health equity in hypertension

Find out how to better collect race and ethnicity data to identify inequities, take action on hypertension and improve blood pressure control.

Prevention & Wellness
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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 Health
Prioritizing Equity Video Series
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What can physicians do about racial and ethnic health inequities?

Learn more from the AMA Journal of Ethics about the racial and ethnic inequity in morbidity, mortality and access to health and other vital services.

Health Equity
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Achieving health equity requires going beyond patient in the room

Physician advocacy, leadership and education are key to optimal health for all. Find out how the questions medical ethicists ask will add to the effort.

Health Equity
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5 principles to wisely spend opioid litigation settlement funds

State and local policymakers must avoid the wasteful mistakes of the 1990s’ Big Tobacco settlement. Learn more with the AMA.

Behavioral Health
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Christy Rentmeester, PhD, on standards of care and ethics during COVID

The AMA is leading the fight against the COVID-19 pandemic. See daily video updates on how the AMA is fighting COVID-19 by discussing moral distress during the pandemic and the standards of care and ethics.

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Infectious Diseases
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7 ways to help your Black patients control high blood pressure

Most Black adults have hypertension. Learn how physicians and other health professionals can improve care for Black patients with high BP.

Prevention & Wellness
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COVID-19 put spotlight on state medical association advocacy efforts

Pandemic pivots state medical association advocacy efforts and sparks new discussion on bolstering public health and reducing health disparities.

Infectious Diseases
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How insurance regulators are shaping states’ COVID-19 response

There’s more to state-level health advocacy than engaging governors and legislators. Activists must connect with insurance regulators who play vital roles.

Infectious Diseases