health equity

Report Shows How to Reach Health Care Equity, Why It Matters

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Report Shows How to Reach Health Care Equity, Why It Matters

Feb. 2, 2022 — Dejuan Patterson was returning home from work one night when he was robbed at gunpoint and shot in the head. Seventeen years old, he was left to die. Although doctors saved his life, the Baltimore native, who’s now 33, questions the treatment he received from the hospital. He had surgery and … Read more

Nonprofit Addresses Health Equity by Providing Safer Surgeries

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Nonprofit Addresses Health Equity by Providing Safer Surgeries

COMMENTARY By Susannah Schaefer, executive vice chair, president, and chief executive officer of Smile Train   As the global health care community considers how to create health care systems that work for everyone – including the most vulnerable among us – a topic that sparks widespread conversation is health equity. Health equity means everyone having … Read more