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Achieving health equity: A patient safety imperative

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  • Wyatt, Ronald

    (30472 Ono North Loop West, USA)

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Achieving health equity requires achieving zero preventable harm for all people. Health inequity must be inextricably linked to safety if all people are to be free from harm. There is no safety without equity and no equity without safety. Health inequity is an unsafe condition. Equity-related near misses, adverse events and sentinel events must undergo a comprehensive systematic analysis. Each root cause should have a strong corrective action(s). Measurable actions might include the collection and stratification of race, ethnicity and language data, or addressing stereotype bias, implicit bias, structural competency and institutional and structural racism. Leadership committed to creating a culture of equity is required. Measures of success should be linked to payment and restoring trust.

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  • Wyatt, Ronald, 2023. "Achieving health equity: A patient safety imperative," Management in Healthcare: A Peer-Reviewed Journal, Henry Stewart Publications, vol. 8(1), pages 70-84, September.
    • Handle: RePEc:aza:mih000:y:2023:v:8:i:1:p:70-84
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    Keywords

    inequity; root causes; REaL; racism; structural competency; trust;
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    JEL classification:

    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health
    • I10 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health - - - General

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