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Intervention and Public Policy Pathways to Achieve Health Care Equity

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  • Shelley White-Means

    (Department of Interprofessional Education, College of Graduate Health Sciences, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA
    CHEER Health Disparities Center, University of Tennessee Health Science Center, Memphis, TN 38163, USA)

  • Darrell J. Gaskin

    (Department of Health Policy and Management, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA
    Hopkins Center for Health Disparities Solutions, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, Baltimore, MD 21205, USA)

  • Ahmad Reshad Osmani

    (Department of Economics, University of Memphis, Memphis, TN 38152, USA)

Abstract

Health care equity reflects an equal opportunity to utilize public health and health care resources in order to maximize one’s health potential. Achieving health care equity necessitates the consideration of both quantity and quality of care, as well as vertical (greater health care use by those with greater needs) and horizontal (equal health care use by those with equal needs) equity. In this paper, we summarize the approaches introduced by authors contributing to this Special Issue and how their work is captured by the National Institute of Minority Health and Health Disparities (NIMHD) framework. The paper concludes by pointing out intervention and public policy opportunities for future investigation in order to achieve health care equity.

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  • Shelley White-Means & Darrell J. Gaskin & Ahmad Reshad Osmani, 2019. "Intervention and Public Policy Pathways to Achieve Health Care Equity," IJERPH, MDPI, vol. 16(14), pages 1-11, July.
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    health care equity; NIMHD framework; interventions; public policy;
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    • H0 - Public Economics - - General
    • I1 - Health, Education, and Welfare - - Health

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