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🌍  Discover the origins of the Health Equity Tracker 👩🏽💻 • Uncovering the stark COVID-19 impact on communities of color, this tool is your window to understanding and action. • Over 15,000 hours of insight reveal a hard truth: equality isn't equity. Join the movement for just and appropriate healthcare for all! • • • #HealthEquity #DataForChange #EquityInHealth #HealthJustice #EqualHealthForAll #HealthcareEquity #SocialDeterminantsOfHealth #HealthDisparities #EquitableHealthcare #InclusiveHealth #EquityInAction #AccessToHealthcare #FairHealthOpportunities #HealthForAll #JusticeInHealth #HealthEquality #DiversityInHealth #HealthInclusivity #CommunityHealthEquity #RightToHealth #AdvocacyForHealth

🚨Did you know that minority communities face major disparities in healthcare access and outcomes? It's time to address this issue and work towards health equity for all. Join us in advocating for change, spreading awareness about this crucial issue, and providing accessible resources to the minority communities. Together, we can make a difference! #HealthEquity #MinorityHealthcareDisparities #MinorityHealthMonth🏥💪🏽

Are health equity and equality synonymous? Not exactly. While equality aims for sameness, equity ensures fairness, acknowledging diverse needs. Understanding this subtle yet crucial difference is vital for fostering truly inclusive healthcare for everyone. Among the myriad forms of inequality, the injustice in health stands as the most egregious and inhumane. Every individual, regardless of wealth or background, deserves equitable access to healthcare, an unalienable right. #healthequity #healthequality #houstonhealthdepartment #americorps #americanpublichealth #who #harvard_globalhealth #harrishealthsystem #cdcglobal #nihgov #hhsgov #partnersinhealth

At GBCA we understand that individual needs vary across communities, and addressing those needs requires different tools. Listen to GBCA's Health Equity Manager, Norkielys P., as she explains the difference between health equity and health equality. To learn more about GBCA's Health Equity Program and how we work to close the gaps caused by health inequities, click the link BELOW! https://bit.ly/470N9V6 #GBCA #BergenCounty #HealthEquity #HealthEquality

Serious conditions like sepsis are missed or dismissed, especially for women and minorities. Empowering individuals to advocate for their health is key to closing the gap in healthcare equity. Trust your intuition and speak up. OpenDx is here to help you be heard. #BeYourOwnAdvocate #HealthEquity #SpeakUpForHealth

🌟 DEI and Health Equity: A Call to Action 🌟 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) go beyond representation—they reach into the very heart of health equity. Ensuring everyone has fair access to health resources, treatment, and opportunities is essential for thriving communities. 💡 Health equity means addressing systemic barriers and ensuring that race, income, gender, or ability are not predictors of someone’s health outcomes. It’s about ensuring fairness and compassion in healthcare for everyone. DEI and health equity are inseparable. To create inclusive spaces, we must prioritize the health and well-being of every individual, especially those in marginalized communities. By doing so, we uplift people, families, and entire societies. Let’s continue to advocate for and build systems where everyone’s health matters—because only when we all rise together can we truly thrive. 💙 #DEI #HealthEquity #DiversityAndInclusion #EqualAccess #FairHealthcare #Advocacy #CommunityWellness #ThriveTogether #EquityInAction

3 Things I'd Never Do in Pursuing Health Equity: 🚫 1. Assume all communities have the same needs. 🏙️🏘️ Each community faces unique challenges shaped by their history, culture, and environment. 2. Implement programs without community input. 🗣️ 👂🏿 True progress comes from listening to and collaborating with those we aim to serve. 3. Ignore intersectionality in health experiences. 🔄 Health disparities often stem from complex interactions of race, gender, class, and other factors. These practices can significantly hinder progress in health equity. But what about you? What approaches have you seen backfire in healthcare inclusion efforts? 🤔 Let's discuss ways to create more effective, community-centered solutions. After all, health equity isn't just a goal—it's a fundamental right. ⚖️❤️ #HealthcareInclusion #HealthEquity #CustomerSuccess #InWomensHealth #IWH #NYCWCC

Breaking Down Health Equity: Promoting Awareness and Understanding Join us as we explore the concept of health equity and its impact on our communities. Learn how the Buffalo Center for Health Equity works towards improving social determinants of health and promoting equality. Let's build a future where everyone understands and supports health equity. #HealthEquity #CommunityHealth #SocialDeterminants #PublicHealth #HealthcareAccess #HealthEquality #CommunityWellness #HealthEducation #EquityMatters #HealthAdvocacy

Unique Policy : A policy specifically designed to cover the health needs of women and her family. #motherslove #women #healthinsurance #starhealth #starhealthinsurance

“But now that women are finally being heard, some unscrupulous companies are exploiting #womenshealth #advocacy for #profit.” Let’s unpack. Is profit the sign of being “unscrupulous?” If so that damns all #venture-backed business. On lack #of science behind what is sold, that is worth deeper consideration: If: …women were not included in #clinicaltrials until 1993 …women still are not equally represented https://lnkd.in/eWyxw9gj …8 out of 10 #drugs withdrawn for toxicity are toxic in women https://lnkd.in/eVd36VsQ, …then how complete or valid or safe is current science? I used to write “evidence based guidelines” in #Medicaid and for hospitals https://lnkd.in/ewbiaGSa confidently… before I understood these kinds of gaps existed by gender and by race/ethnicity. These are conversations we have at HER Heard as we consider partnerships to connect women to care options, with an emphasis on choice and shared decision maimb not paternalism or one sided control. As a #physician, “first do no harm” is part of my ethics. I think twice before making any recommendation and want to know the evidence behind it. I am quick to say, “I don’t know” or “I don’t have enough data or evidence to offer an informed opinion.” As a #founder and #CEO, I care about building a #brand of #trust, #safety, #quality. The value proposition of HER Heard is reliability and reducing cognitive load on women trying to find information on Google, Reddit, Facebook, or GPT. As a #patient, I wanted fewer barriers to my paying for something myself after #hospital-based medicine had failed me. Hospitals, also, have #financial incentives, even when “non-profit” and, speaking as a former Chief Medical Officer and #insurance #executive, I have seen how the patients becomes a widget on an assembly line. Why do women need to wait for failure to seek still emerging diagnostics, therapeutics, and adjunct options to add to hospital-based care? Plus, as a #scientist who is a patient, I know my #data are missing in science, in guidelines, in algorithms. “Science-based” is a questionable criterion when science excludes so many of us. I would love science and data that include me. I know it will take decades for science to fill those gaps. I know, it will then take decades more for that science to be commercialized and to reach patients. Some of us will no longer be alive, in fact, by that time. So what is reasonable to do, right now, in the meantime, while waiting for science to catch up and to start to have valid information for women’s health? When you need things fast, #VC and faster forms of funding step in. Will some of what is sold be of questionable evidence? Yes. Where to land on this question of monetizing before it is proven by science is not easy to answer. Personally, I believe in treating women like full adults who, if offered a range of options (and if there is not untrue claims or misinformation) can make their own choices.