Health Equity

Recent political events have data custodians and users across the country asking an important question—if the federal government is backing away from its historical role as a leader in advancing data quality and data democracy, what does it mean for the future of representation and evidence-based policy development? More

Since the day Donald Trump was inaugurated as the 47th President of the United States, his administration has “flooded the zone” with a deluge of… More

Context: Evidence suggests Medicaid expansion has improved cardiovascular disease (CVD) outcomes, especially among those of lower socioeconomic… More

As we enter a new Presidential administration, the health and well-being of low-income families hangs in the balance. Many of the policies that offer… More

Over the past 50 years, population health researchers have made significant progress in clarifying the empirical and theoretical relationships between socioeconomic conditions and health disparities particularly for social constructs such as race and ethnicity.  More

Language specificity in research, advocacy, and writing is an important tool to ensure more equitable health policies. All health policy practitioners working at the intersection of health care, health policy, and health equity have a role in upholding ethical standards that promote the use of humanizing, inclusive, and antisupremacist language. More

This article qualitatively assess physician groups’ barriers and facilitators of planning and implementing BCBSMA’s financial incentives to improve equity of ambulatory care quality by patient race and ethnicity. More

As states expand prerelease and transition services for incarcerated individuals under the Medicaid Reentry Section 1115 Demonstration Opportunity, this article sought to systematically inform Medicaid state and plan administrators regarding the population size and burden of disease data available on incarcerated populations in both jails and prisons in the United States. More

In the context of the Ending Unequal Treatment findings, this article discusses the imperative of a representative health care workforce as a core element of any strategy for overcoming the persistence of health and health care inequities as well as options for future programmatic and policy action in the face of race-conscious admissions bans. More

The social and economic arrangements Americans have created and maintained have shaped patterns of disease occurrence, prevalence, distribution, and recovery over the course of the country’s history. More