Unmet social and structural needs negatively influence children’s health outcomes. Even in pediatric health systems in the United States that have implemented social needs screening programs, little guidance exists about best practices for how clinical teams should respond to children’s…
Social accountability in health professions education prominently has to do with preparing students and trainees in pediatrics to do 3 key things: prioritize social and structural drivers as preconditions of children’s health, work to mitigate health inequity among children by…
This article problematizes the normalization of social pediatrics as extracurricular or optional rather than necessary for children’s health care. Drawing on critical pedagogical frameworks like structural competency and accompaniment, this article illuminates clinical, institutional, and structural obstacles to mainstreaming social…
Surgical research involving patients who are incarcerated is fraught with ethical, logistical, and practical questions. This article first considers important moments in the history of research with people who are incarcerated and suggests how they have contributed to evolution in…
Safety-net hospitals care for patients who are incarcerated and are key environments in which surgical trainees learn to wield their professional autonomy. This article explores ethical questions raised by surgical trainees’ participation in carceral care and canvasses possible responses to…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the CJ featured guest is Cynthia Chandler, JD, director of the Bay Area Legal Incubator in Oakland, California; and Anthony Loria, MD, a research resident at the University of Rochester…
This activity is comprised of five multiple-choice questions based on the content of an AMA Journal of Ethics podcast about private equity in health care. The featured guest is Rob Field, PhD, JD, MPH, professor of law at the Thomas…
The article assesses research on private equity ownership’s influence on health care quality. A review of several prominent studies supports the conclusion that private equity ownership does not have a universally positive or negative effect. Past research has found that…
Private equity (PE) investments in health care have grown to over $750 billion in the past decade and include every segment of the US health sector. Although PE investments can provide capital and improve efficiency of health service delivery, PE’s…
Capital and staff shortages have forced many rural hospitals to close. Private equity investment in rural hospitals has been one solution to these problems. This article argues, however, that private equity firms’ business practices, especially shortening acquisition-to-sale time and maximizing…
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