Moving to Eliminate Health Inequities

Despite years of concerted efforts by providers and policy makers, patients from marginalized backgrounds still face significant health disparities. In a new Med Page Today article, Maulik S. Joshi, DrPH, lays out three ways that care systems can enact changes to make health inequity a “never event.” It begins with appropriate goal setting and a sea change in how health systems view care/

According to, “As another step toward the zero goal, we must supersize transparency. In the case of patient safety, harm events or never events are closely tracked with data, and in many organizations, the metrics are easily accessible for all to see. Health inequity measures should be tracked monthly using formats that are readily available for everyone within an organization.”

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(Source: Med Page Today, March 25^th, 2023)