Ensuring Accountability to Marginalized Communities: Equity Informed High Reliability
This activity provides an explanation of the fifth and final focus area of the Advancing Equity through Quality & Safety 5 focus area framework.
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Building Will for Urgent Action Among Leadership: Equity Informed High Reliability
This eLearning activity provides an explanation of the fourth focus area of the Advancing Equity through Quality & Safety 5 focus area framework.
Toward Equitable Interventions in Public Mental Health – A Review
Importance The field of public mental health is evolving to tackle the profound impact of global challenges such as climate change, migration, and health crises. These issues accentuate health and social inequities, necessitating a focus on how to achieve interventions that…
Making the Ethical Oversight of All Clinical Trials Fit for Purpose
Importance With the increase in trials assessing comparative effectiveness of approved products and alternative care strategies, guidance is needed to ensure ethical oversight is fit for purpose for the risks, burdens, and constraints on choice this research presents. Observations US regulations governing…
Using Music to Teach Health Professions Students to Listen Closely and Promote Peace
Promoting peace with patients requires clinicians to be skilled in helping patients feel safe, respected, and heard. Close listening is a teachable skill set that enables clinicians to focus sensory attention on a patient and to cultivate space for reflection…
How Should Clinicians Share Decision Making With Patients Interested in Using Psychedelics to Feel Psychologically Safe?
This commentary on a case of a transgender patient interested in using psychedelics to feel more at peace and achieve a sense of psychological safety argues that health care practitioners can help their patients minimize potential harms of psychedelics by…
Government Obligations and the Negative Right to a Healthy Urban Environment
Urban development often generates noise and light pollution, reduces green space, produces heat islands, and increases population density that can exacerbate crime, disease transmission, anxiety, and stress. This article argues that individuals and communities have rights to not have their…
Ethics Talk: Therapeutic Music and Peace in Health Care
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about therapeutic music and peace in health care. The featured guests are Daniel Levitin, PhD, neuroscientist, cognitive psychologist, and author of…
Health Equity Open Forum – Part 3: Moving From Ableism to Full Inclusion
This is part 3 of a three-part program aiming to discuss how our AMA is advancing health equity. There will be presentations and opportunities for discussion on recent progress and areas of focus in the near future. Anchored in the…
Health Equity Open Forum – Part 1: Being Strategic in Advancing Health Equity
This session is part 1 of a three-part program aiming to discuss how our AMA is advancing health equity. There will be presentations and opportunities for discussion on recent progress and areas of focus in the near future. Anchored in…
