Topic in Focus: Health Care Equity

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6 reasons to join the AMA
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Tool helps equip residents to care for at-risk patients

A new online tool is helping residents and their training programs better understand at-risk populations—including the homeless, unemployed, underserved and uninsured—and improve their quality of care.

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How organized medicine is reducing health care disparities

When I participated in the National Hispanic Medical Association’s (NHMA) annual meeting several weeks ago, I was struck by the tangible sense of unity in the air. 

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3 goals doctors are working toward to reduce health care disparities

The Commission to End Health Care Disparities discussed its plans to achieve better data collection and reporting at the National Minority Quality Forum 2014 Summit held this week in Washington, D.C.

Health Equity
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Racial, ethnic mental health disparities in the spotlight this month

During Mental Health Month, observed each May, the AMA Minority Affairs Section encourages all physicians to recognize and work to address the racial and ethnic disparities that exist in mental health care.

Behavioral Health
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Help provide care to underserved areas through student contest

Can you help solve today’s most complicated global health problems? Team up with your friends for a competition to win a chance to provide high quality health services to underserved populations across the globe

Health Equity
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Med school curriculum changes aim to eliminate health care disparities

How should physicians of the future eliminate health care disparities and deliver the best patient care? Some schools are beginning to address this weighty question by focusing on the unique needs of underserved populations, workforce diversity and population health.

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