The stark inequity in safe, affordable housing due to unfair policies and practices (e.g., redlining) underpins inequities across multiple social determinants of health (SDOH) and health outcomes.

A survey of the NEJM Catalyst Insights Council finds widespread awareness of the importance of addressing social determinants of health, and increased data collection on health-related social needs.

If we don’t have equity, we don’t have quality, says the CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Chief Medical Officer and Director of the ...

When considering readmission risk, each patient should be assessed on the basis of their own unique circumstances. In January 2021, the care coordination team at Spectrum Health (now part of Corewell ...

Despite some real success in improving patient safety in recent years, achieving the goal of zero harm to patients, families, and the health care workforce is a massive undertaking that requires a ...

As hospitals seek to increase revenues by attracting more privately insured patients (who are disproportionately white), a complex pricing dynamic tends to channel both private and public funding away ...

Massachusetts’ Public Health Commissioner discusses the need to break down barriers within organizations and between public- and private-sector health organizations to achieve better care and health ...

A four-tier model offers a pragmatic framework for establishing meaningful measurements that will advance equity for patients and for the staff of the organization.

The Covid-19 pandemic exposed and intensified health inequities that caused disproportionately higher rates of infection, morbidity, and mortality in marginalized and disadvantaged communities, along ...

In this article, the authors discuss the growing crisis of opioid access barriers for people with serious illness, who commonly require these medications as a first-line pain treatment. The authors ...

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene determined that the spread of misinformation about Covid-19 was having a harmful health impact, particularly on communities of color with low ...

Three proposals for improving the law to reflect 21st-century drug development practices.