Health Disparities
by Jenna Ogilvie | Jan 18, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Over the last decade, some of the digital technologies that have profoundly transformed industries from banking to media have, at last, arrived in health...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 29, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
The National Academies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic. Visit our resource center >> Introduction The health system exists to serve the most fundamental need of society: people’s health and well-being. To do so effectively requires engaging people...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Nov 1, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction The emergence of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19), coupled with the increasing awareness of racial inequity in the United States, as sparked by the killing of George Floyd at the hands of police officers, has led to a moment of reckoning...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Sep 15, 2021 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the publication of To Err Is Human: Building a Safer Health System (IOM, 2000) and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century (IOM, 2001), the National Academy of Medicine convened the leaders...
by Madeleine Deye | Sep 8, 2021 | Commentary, Perspectives
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic has revealed significant racial/ethnic inequalities in numerous aspects of American society. However, the massive disruption and upheaval to daily life caused by the pandemic can also present a unique moment in history...
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