"Health equity means giving patients the care they need when they need it. Or as the Institute of Medicine (IOM) report put it, health equity means 'providing care that does not vary in quality because of personal characteristics such as gender, ethnicity, geographic location, and socioeconomic status.'" Daniel E. Dawes in Why Health Equity Matters in an Era of Health Care Transformation, published on December 5, 2016 in AAMC News Insights

"Health equity is an issue of justice. Health status is determined by where people live, their income and how they are treated by other people. Addressing health equity requires recognizing that not everyone has the same opportunities to make healthy choices. A commitment to Health Equity requires taking bold action to eliminate barriers to basic human needs that create “unnecessary, avoidable, unfair, and unjust” health differences between populations."

"Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts provides a glossary of key terms. This glossary is by no means exhaustive, nor is it a definitive list of correct/incorrect answers. Rather, it is intended to serve as a starting point for reflection. It is a guide on current usage of important terms and will be updated over time. Whenever possible, we cite authoritative sources and introduce ongoing debates over definitions."

"Unnatural causes sounds the alarm about the extent of our glaring socio-economic and racial inequities in health and searches for their root causes. But those causes are not what we might expect. While we pour more and more money into drugs, dietary supplements and new medical technologies, Unnatural causes crisscrosses the country investigating the findings that are shaking up conventional understanding of what really makes us healthy or sick. This is a story that implicates us all."

"Health Equity is a multidisciplinary Division within the Wayne State University School of Medicine's Department of Family Medicine and Public Health Sciences. HED Division faculty are drawn from the disciplines of biostatistics, epidemiology, health education, environmental health, medicine, psychology, and sociology as well as broadly from the field of public health. [...] Our goal is to improve the health of populations, and in particular to reduce disparities in the health of populations across the life course."

"Recognizing the need to teach concepts of health equity, diversity, and inclusion as a part of medical students' preclinical training, we developed a series of workshops in the first year of medical school that introduced students to issues of discrimination and inequity and their effects on health outcomes. This student-led, faculty-supported project, known as Critical Consciousness in Medicine (CCM), adopted critical consciousness as a guiding principle for student learning."

"Instruction in implicit bias is becoming prevalent across the spectrum of medical training. Little education exists for preclinical students, and guidance for faculty to facilitate such education is minimal. To address these gaps, we designed and delivered a single session for incoming first-year medical students and developed a facilitator training program."

"The US healthcare system is plagued with inequities that disproportionately impact people of color and other marginalized communities. This article discusses some of the key reasons behind these historic and current health disparities, identifies key terms, and discusses strategies for nurses who are interested in allying with efforts to tackle inequity and racism in American healthcare."

"Critical lessons can be gleaned by examining 2 of the most salient relationships between racism and medicine during the Holocaust: (1) connections between racism and dehumanization that have immediate, lethal, deleterious, longer-term consequences and (2) intersections of racism and other forms of hatred and bigotry, including discrimination against people with disabilities; lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and queer people; and social and religious minorities. When considered in the US context, these lessons amplify need for reflection about the history of eugenics and human experimentation and about the persistence of racism and ableism in health care."

"Although a growing body of evidence underscores the contributions of community-based participatory research, community coalitions and other community engagement approaches to addressing health equity, one of the most potent forms of engagement-community organizing-has attracted far less attention in our field. Yet, organizing by and for communities, to build power, select issues, develop and use strategies, and take action to address the goals they collectively have set, may offer important lessons for public health professionals in these fraught times. [...] We conclude by discussing how many of the promising practices and lessons shared by the community organizers might enhance our own field's health equity-focused efforts, particularly if we take seriously one of their most bedrock messages: that there can be no health equity without racial equity and social justice, and that to get to health equity, we must first address equity writ large, particularly in troubling times."

"This article provides a primer on the seemingly race-neutral structures (such as admissions, metrics of success, learning climate, and leadership opportunities) that negatively impact the educational experiences and outcomes of racial and ethnic minorities, especially those underrepresented in medicine (URiM)—namely Black, Hispanic, and Indigenous students (as defined by the Association of American Medical Colleges)."