Journal Article

Achieving Health Equity: Closing The Gaps In Health Care Disparities, Interventions, And Research

Purnell, Tanjala S, Halladay, Jacqueline R, Krok-Schoen, Jessica L, Appelhans, Bradley M, Cooper, Lisa A, Golden, Sherita H, Calhoun, Elizabeth A

2016

Overview

In the United States, racial/ethnic minority, rural, and low-income populations continue to experience suboptimal access to and quality of health care despite decades of recognition of health disparities and policy mandates to eliminate them. Many health care interventions that were designed to achieve health equity fall short because of gaps in knowledge and translation. We discuss these gaps and highlight innovative interventions that help address them, focusing on cardiovascular disease and cancer. We also provide recommendations for advancing the field of health equity and informing the implementation and evaluation of policies that target health disparities through improved access to care and quality of care.

• Publisher: The People to People Health Foundation, Inc., Project HOPE
• Subject: Access / African Americans / Blood pressure / Cancer / Cardiovascular disease / Cardiovascular diseases / College professors / Consortia / Cultural differences / Electronic health records / Equity / Ethnic groups / Fairness / Health care / Health care access / Health care policy / Health disparities / Health literacy / Health services / Health status / Heart diseases / Hypertension / Implementation / Intervention / Low income groups / Medicaid / Minority & ethnic groups / Minority groups / Patient education / Patient Protection & Affordable Care Act 2010-US / Patient satisfaction / Population / Preventive medicine / Primary care / Public health / Quality / Quality improvement / Quality of care / Rural areas / Rural populations / Socioeconomic factors / Translation