Tag: Health Equity

For healthcare providers, the passion for enacting meaningful change can come from a number of factors, but for many, this drive originates directly from their own environment.

This organization provides resources, advisors, and education aimed at informing seniors, lower income families, and people with disabilities about how Medicaid works with Medicare. Their guides cover dual eligibility standards, how to apply, and most importantly, the associated costs.

The harm reduction approach to healthcare is a very important, yet often misunderstood, aspect of engaging people with substance use disorders. Rooted in the idea that there should be neither […]

Reducing harm, eradicating stigma, and facilitating equitable access to care is key to building a healthier state of Maryland. Megan Buresh, MD, DFASAM, AAHIVM contributes to this effort through her […]

Brittany Yerkes, a Physician Assistant at the Chesapeake Health Care and a member of the Alive! Maryland Inter-professional Advisory Board, aims to improve the quality of life for all of her patients. She does so by first believing that they cannot be defined by an illness or condition.  

We spoke with M. Tica Torres about his endeavors as a Care Navigator, the motivations behind their work, and their advice on how other providers can advance impact in their own fields.

This article explores 8 federal rural definitions and the degree to which they identify the same areas as rural. Rural-urban disparities across socioeconomic, demographic, and health access and outcome measures are also evaluated.

CDC’s Division of HIV/AIDS Prevention’s Office of Health Equity page.

The American Medical Association’s health equity resource library.

A health equity resource library.

A resource from University of California, San Francisco on providing gender affirming care.

A CDC resource on the social determinants of health.