AMA Journal of Ethics

To achieve health equity, governments can use a variety of tools, including civil rights legislation and constitutional jurisprudence.

Advances in CEA methodology might integrate equity at the cost of transparency.

Modeling how technology assessment fits into cost-effectiveness frameworks can broaden the range of options for improving health equity.

Failure to robustly integrate health equity content into health professions curricula leads to student frustration and missed opportunities.

One health system’s development and validation of inequity measures across patient groups demonstrates an approach that could be nationally scalable.

At their best, good systems allow space for the practical judgment of health care professionals to achieve justice in the particular actions of their daily practice.

This collection considers how systems of oppression intersect to produce and reinforce health inequity in diverse US Latinx communities.

On this episode of Ethics Talk, Dr Ruth Enid Zambrana shows how decisions about demographic data collection have the power to illuminate or obscure health inequity. Then, Drs Fernando De Maio, Diana N. Derige, and Diana Lemos discuss the work that the AMA Center for Health Equity has been doing to advance Latinx health equity.

The opioid crisis, maternal death, and COVID-19 underscore trust as foundational to public health and call for redefinition of what it means to be a US clinician.

Redefining merit can promote meaningful inclusion and express institutional leadership in addressing social justice.