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Health Equity

Reversing generations of inequity won’t happen quickly, but healthcare leaders need to treat equity as an immediate imperative requiring continuous and constant action. Explore our research to learn how to craft a holistic health equity strategy that addresses the needs of your workforce, patients, and community.


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Build diversity, equity, and inclusion

  • Organizations with diverse workforces — in terms of race, ethnicity, gender, sexuality, gender identity, culture, language, ability, and more — and inclusive cultures are stronger businesses. They have more collaborative teams, make better decisions, and are more profitable.
  • Use our maturity model to help you assess how embedded diversity and inclusion is in your talent management strategy.

Ensure equitable biopsychosocial care for all patients

The existence of inequities in care delivery and patient outcomes is a moral issue that can impact the functioning and outcomes of healthcare organizations. To improve outcomes:

  • Provider organizations can focus on cultivating cultural humilitytrauma-informed care, and connecting patients with non-clinical support.
  • Health plans can create cultural humility certifications and offer reimbursement for meeting social needs.
  • Life sciences companies can go upstream by improving clinical trial diversity and access.

Address social determinants of health

  • Efforts to address disparities that end at the patient level don’t address the community-wide social determinants of health or their root causes — intergenerational poverty and structural inequity. 
  • To advance health equity for the long term, leaders need to address these community-level factors that impact historically marginalized groups at disproportionate rates.

Data is the backbone of any equity strategy. To take the first steps toward reducing inequities, leaders should:

  • Identify top opportunities for reducing disparities and inform initiatives to address them
  • Monitor efforts and evaluate the success of their initiatives in reducing disparities in the short and long term
  • Behavioral health needs are increasing. The behavioral healthcare sector struggles with a unique "meta" inequity that makes progress intractable
  • This multilevel dynamic stems from two root causes: the long-standing devaluation and separation of behavioral healthcare from the rest of medical care and structural inequities like racism.
  • The United States is the only industrialized nation where maternal mortality and morbidity rates are increasing. Black and Native American patients especially experience the most devastating rates of complications. 
  • Healthcare leaders can advance equitable outcomes by embedding best practice obstetrics protocols into frontline practice, tracking performance and identifying care gaps, and tapping into system- and community-based resources.

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