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Health Disparities and Health Equity: Righting Historic Wrongs and Building a More Equitable Future
Pages 62-65

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... Health equity must be the foundational principle for all health system reform. iStock® iStock® 62 20220909 NAM 50th Book Pages 56-73-RTP.indd 62 9/13/22 7:34 PM
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From page 63...
... Department of Health and Human Services in 1986, which works to improve the 1984 health of Americans in racial and ethnic minority populations through health policies and programs Studying Disparities in Minority Health aimed at helping to eliminate health disparities. Noticing that the health of minority populations Subsequent actions by both the National Institutes was not improving as much as overall health in the of Health and Congress led to the creation of the United States, the secretary of the U.S.
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From page 64...
... Department of Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Human Services created the National Healthcare revealed that racial and ethnic minorities Standards for Culturally and Linguistically tend to receive lower-quality health care than non- 2010 Appropriate Services in Health and Health Care minorities even when accounting for such factors in 2001. The standards include guidelines that as patients' health insurance status or income.
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From page 65...
... health care providers, and researchers policy that researchers should factor the possible role The release of this report in 2017 was foundational of sex as a biological variable into any human studies. to the National Academy of Medicine's Culture work together to address the direct and The policy emphasized that this consideration must of Health Program, funded by the Robert Wood indirect causes of disparities, including guide scientists throughout the entire study process, Johnson Foundation, a multiyear collaborative structural racism and the conditions from the time research questions are developed and effort to identify strategies to create and sustain the study is designed to the time data are collected, conditions that support equitable good health for under which people live and work analyzed, and reported.
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