Health Equity
by Jamie Durana | Dec 4, 2023 | Feature Stories
Climate change is increasingly affecting the health and well-being of people across the United States, leading to worsening health outcomes that disproportionately impact communities that have been marginalized. Hospitals and health systems are committed to supporting...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 29, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives
Perched on the southern slope of the Himalayas, between two massive greenhouse gas–emitting countries—India and China—is Nepal. Nepal is a low-income, landlocked nation in South Asia and one of the nations that are most vulnerable to climate change because of its...
by Jamie Durana | Nov 8, 2023 | Feature Stories
Climate change is increasingly affecting the health and well-being of people across the United States, leading to worsening health outcomes that disproportionately impact communities that have been marginalized. Hospitals and health systems are committed to supporting...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 7, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives
Why We Need to Strengthen Primary Care The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recognizes that effective primary care is essential for improving the health and well-being of individuals, families, and communities and advancing health...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 7, 2023 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
ABSTRACT | The initial response to the COVID-19 pandemic in the United States largely focused on addressing the immediate health consequences from the emergent pathogen. This initial focus often ignored the related impacts from the pandemic and from mitigation...
by Laura DeStefano | May 31, 2023 | Commentary, Perspectives
This commentary is adapted from commencement speeches delivered by Victor Dzau at the University of Pittsburgh and Tulane University. Graduates, as newly minted health care providers, researchers, and educators, you join thousands of others around the globe connected...
by Madeleine Deye | Dec 14, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Executive Overview The health of the U.S. population faces a seemingly intractable shortfall in the prospects for large numbers of people, including and especially people of color, long confronting the consequences of structural racism. Yet, rather than focus...
by Madeleine Deye | Nov 14, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Introduction The United States has shown that higher health care spending does not guarantee better health outcomes. Despite consistently leading the world in health care spending per capita, U.S. population health outcomes are poor (Papanicolas et al., 2018)....
by Madeleine Deye | Oct 31, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
Background Accountable Communities for Health (ACHs) are multisector, community-based partnerships that bring together health care, public health, social services, other local partners, and residents to address the unmet health and social needs of the...
by Jenna Ogilvie | Aug 8, 2022 | Discussion Paper, Perspectives
This discussion paper provides an overview of the eighth annual District of Columbia (DC) Public Health Case Challenge (https://nam.edu/initiatives/dc-public-health-case-challenge/), a competition held in 2021 by the National Academy of Medicine (NAM) and the...
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