Missouri Health Equity Collaborative

The authors find great disparities in access to health care services between children with private medical insurance and children on Medicaid and/or CHIP. The study looks at various specialty clinics and found that specialty providers are less likely to see and treat children with Medicaid that children on private insurance. Please see the study at [...]

The authors discuss the importance of appropriate data collection and its impact on”monitoring, identifying, and targeting the underlying causes” of racial and ethnic disparities. The perspective essay is available at the following link: Advancing Health Care Equity through Improved Data Collection Joel S. Weissman, Ph.D., and Romana Hasnain-Wynia, Ph.D. New England  Journal of  Medicine 2011; [...]

As a doctor and Director of the Center for Health Policy, I spend a lot of time thinking about how we can improve the health and well-being of all Missourians. We face unprecedented challenges today: an uncertain economy, tighter budgets, crises in health due to emergencies, natural and man-made disasters, not to mention an aging [...]

From the Policy Link report: “This document summarizes the key ideas and recommendations of Why Place and Race Matter, an in-depth examination of how neighborhood environments and racially based barriers to opportunity intersect and impact the health of individuals, families, and communities. In this document, we briefly (1) discuss the root causes of health disparities; [...]

The Missouri Health Equity Collaborative ( MOHEC) EHR working group is  devoted to examining how we should and could be using current and emerging data to identify and target specific health disparities in Missouri.  This group will also be charged with proactively planning how to educate consumers on their right to have a copy of [...]

The International Council of Nurses, a a federation of more than 130 national nurses associations, has released the Closing the gap:Increasing Access and Equity toolkit. The document looks at gaps in the health status and life expectancy between different populations. It also looks at the importance of the social determinants of health and the role [...]

The World Health Organization just released the Commission on Social Determinants of Health Final Report. The report looks at the global health inequities, the need for action, the evidence, the stakeholders, and at the extent to which daily living conditions influence health around the world. The WHO also provides a list of recommendations to achieving [...]

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