AMA Journal of Ethics^®

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

This watercolor painting looks to our 20th-century ancestors who fought to establish their, and many of our, voting rights.

Eleven million undocumented immigrants in the United States, including children, face barriers to health. By practicing 4 elements of sanctuary health care, clinicians and organizations can help.

Dr Donald Tomaskovic-Devey talks about the plight of those among us in low wage positions during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Cervical cancer has become rare in high-income countries but is a leading cause of mortality among women in low- and middle-income countries. This inequity is an epidemiological tragedy.

Epidemics can threaten everyone on earth, yet responses are not implemented in all regions to contain disease.

WHO suggests doing research during outbreaks but says little about local researchers’ access to samples or subjects’ access to what’s learned.

A graphic memoir documents clinical and ethical disagreements and decision points throughout a paramedic team’s time with an incarcerated patient in labor.

Current evidence suggests how hospice and palliative care clinicians can help advocate for high-quality, end-of-life care for patients with obesity.

This graphic storybook portrays an undocumented child in the United States who is denied fundamental human rights to health care, education, shelter, and food.