Topic in Focus: Health Care Equity

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How medical-legal partnerships are confronting social determinants

The growing emphasis on patients’ complex needs is driving health care and legal organizations to partner to remove barriers to essential services.

Ethics
Jun 22, 2022 ·
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Digital Health Adoption: Addressing Key Barriers

Learn how AMA is working to ensure equitable structures and opportunities in innovation, and how resources can support innovation as an asset and not a burden.

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AMA study on maternal health in the city of Chicago

This new study examines the variations in access to maternal health care and maternal and infant health outcomes across specific neighborhoods in Chicago. Download a PDF of the study.

Population Health
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To improve maternal outcomes, get mom’s care goals on the board

Physicians and health professionals at Saint Peter’s University Hospital use a structured process that moms love. It starts with a huddle board.

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Population Health
Health System Spotlight
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Innovative health systems use data to advance health equity

Earn CME and find out how smart health systems use safety and quality-improvement reporting processes to address health inequities.

Health Equity
AMA Update for July 22, 2024: Culturally competent care benefits: Reducing health disparities and patient-centered care examples
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Culturally competent care benefits: Reducing health disparities and patient-centered care examples

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about culturally competent and patient-centered care.

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Health Equity
AMA Update
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Culturally competent care benefits: Reducing health disparities and patient-centered care examples [Podcast]

The AMA Update covers a range of health care topics affecting the lives of physicians and patients. Learn more about culturally competent and patient-centered care.

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Health Equity
AMA Update Podcast
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New medical school’s founding dean champions diversity and equity

Leonardo Seoane, MD, is the first dean at Xavier Ochsner College of Medicine, which will join four existing historically Black medical schools.

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Medical School Diversity
Health System Spotlight
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Heading off ageism means supporting patients—and physicians too

The AMA adopts new policy on ageism, which can affect older adults’ care outcomes and hamper physicians at both ends of the career spectrum.

Population Health