In this week’s edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, medical student organizers and policy advocates will join us to discuss increasing access to care in native communities through health policy and improving care within the Indian Health Services.
This week’s edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the work physicians are leading in health systems and beyond for public health, public safety, and gun violence prevention and the narratives and actions that need to evolve to ensure…
AMA has an interest in educating physicians about the unique health care and social needs of patients experiencing homelessness, the importance of holistic, cost-effective, evidence-based discharge planning, and the physicians’ roles therein, in addressing these needs.
In this week’s edition of the Prioritizing Equity series, we explore the Anchor Strategy a place-based approach to building community health and wealth by means of local hiring, investing, purchasing, and community engagement via the West Side United case study…
Viewed through an evidence-based lens, opioid use disorder (OUD) is a treatable, chronic medical condition. But one-size-fits-all policies and detoxification as a primary treatment for OUD are often, at best, ineffective and at worst, cause harm. In this episode, we…
Opioid use disorder, or OUD, is a treatable medical condition. However, disparities in access to medications for opioid use disorder (MOUD) continue to be a challenge. We’ll examine disparities in access for people with disabilities, racial and ethnic variations to…
Importance Strategies and innovations to advance racial and ethnic equity in recruitment, promotion, and retention at academic health science institutions are needed. Objective This learning assessment aims to isolate evidence-based strategies to advance racial equity in the academic health sciences, which have…
Ensuring the health and safety of health care professionals and patients from transmissible diseases is paramount to a robust health care system. Quick identification of potential infections and the implementation of effective infection prevention and control measures are key to…
Addressing the physical, psychological, social, and spiritual needs of dying patients includes pain management. But how have increasing concerns and policies that target opioid misuse impacted pain management options? In this episode, we’ll discuss how balanced opioid policies and maintaining…
Illicit or nonprescribed opioid use in pregnancy has escalated dramatically in recent years, paralleling increases observed in the general population amid the opioid epidemic. As a result, maternal mortality studies in several states have identified substance use as a major…
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