AMA Journal of Ethics

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

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.

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

Clinicians have an ethical obligation to promote health equity in their communities. This month, we discuss how clinicians worked to expose the water crisis in Flint, and explore ways that clinicians can combat systemic injustice and promote health equity.

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

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

Dr Hannah Janeway of the Refugee Health Alliance explains why good health care for refugees and asylum seekers at the US southern border might require border abolition.

LaShyra Nolen, the first Black woman to serve as Harvard Medical School’s student council president, joins us to discuss health equity, community engagement, and the future of health professional school curricular design.

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.