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)
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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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