Health Affairs Briefing: Pursuing Health Equity

With an eye toward understanding how to achieve greater equity through interventions both inside and outside the health services sector, in 2016 Health Affairs launched a multi-year project to examine and overcome the factors that contribute to disparities in health and health care. The results of the first phase of this work are contained in the forthcoming June 2017 issue of the journal, “Pursuing Health Equity.” Please join us on Tuesday, June 6, at a forum at the National Press Club in Washington, DC, featuring a high-level conversation on the issues with experts and theme issue advisers Paula Braveman of the University of California San Francisco School of Medicine, and Joseph Betancourt of Harvard Medical School, plus panels of journal authors presenting their studies. WHEN: Tuesday, June 6, 2017  9:00 a.m. – 12:45 p.m. WHERE: National Press Club 529 14th Street NW Washington, DC (Metro Center) Register Today! Follow the conversation on Twitter using the hashtag #healthequity Topics to be covered are: Pursuing Health Equity Addressing Social Determinants of Health Evidence of Inequities in Health Care Addressing Inequities in Health Care  The program will feature the following presenters: Mariana Arcaya, Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, on Emerging Trends That Threaten To Exacerbate Inequities Julia Berenson, Research Associate, Center for Health Innovation, New York Academy of Medicine, ...
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