Achieving health equity requires a multifaceted approach that addresses systemic barriers, improves communication in healthcare settings, enacts supportive policies and legislation, ...

It's also why discussions of health equity often include a history lesson. To cite just one example of how events from nearly a century ago can affect health today, in the 1930s, racist redlining ...

It's an idea as old as modern medicine and as new as the latest medical research. No matter how you look at health equity, the conversation involves contradictions. But at its core are fundamental ...

The journey toward health equity can, at times, feel endless. But it can also be exciting and inspiring. Scientific American asked some of the researchers, physicians, advocates, and others ...

This article is part of “Innovations In: Solutions for Health Equity,” an editorially independent special report that was produced with financial support from Takeda Pharmaceuticals. T he ...

Less than a quarter of payer and health system executives cited health equity as a priority for 2025, a recent Deloitte survey found. But the facts haven’t changed.

Health equity is about helping everyone have the opportunity to live a healthy life by providing what they need based on their unique situation, whether that’s access to fresh produce, ...

Health equity, long discussed in theory, is now becoming a practical consideration in HTA decisions. But evaluating its impact is not easy.

Kaiser Permanente, which includes 40 hospitals, 24,605 physicians and 12.5 million-member health plan, has a long history of population-based projects focused on health equity and value-based care.

Throughout the conference, the Health Equity Compact pushed for support of omnibus legislation focused on advancing health ...