TY - JOUR
T1 - Addressing family medicine’s capacity to improve health equity through collaboration, accountability and coalition-building
AU - Martinez-Bianchi, Viviana
AU - Frank, Brian
AU - Edgoose, Jennifer
AU - Michener, Lloyd
AU - Weida, Jane
AU - Rodriguez, Michael
AU - Gottlieb, Laura
AU - Reddick, Bonzo
AU - Kelly, Christina
AU - Yu, Kim
AU - Davis, Sarah
AU - Carr, Jewell
AU - Lee, Jay W.
AU - Smith, Karen L.
AU - New, Ronna
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2019, Society of Teachers of Family Medicine. All rights reserved.
PY - 2019/2
Y1 - 2019/2
N2 - Achieving health equity requires an evaluation of social, economic, environmental, and other factors that impede optimal health for all. Family medicine has long valued an ecological perspective of health, partnering with families and communities. However, both the quantity and degree of continued health disparities requires that family medicine intentionally work toward improvement in health equity. In recognition of this, Family Medicine for America’s Health (FMAHealth) formed a Health Equity Tactic Team (HETT). The team’s charge was to address primary care’s capacity to improve health equity by developing action-oriented approaches accessible to all family physicians. The HETT has produced a number of projects. These include the Starfield II Summit, the focus of which was “Primary Care’s Role in Achieving Health Equity.” Multidisciplinary thought leaders shared their work around health equity, and actionable interventions were developed. These formed the basis of subsequent work by the HETT. This includes the Health Equity Toolkit, designed for a broad interdisciplinary audience of learners to learn to improve care systems, reduce disparities, and improve patient outcomes. The HETT is also building a business case for health equity. This has focused efforts on demonstrating to the private sector an economic argument for health equity. The HETT has formed a close partnership with the American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP’s) Center for Diversity and Health Equity (CDHE), collaborating on numerous efforts to increase awareness of health equity. The team has also focused on engaging leadership in all eight US national family medicine organizations to participate in its activities and to ensure that health equity remains a top priority in its leadership. Looking ahead, family medicine will be required to continuously engage with government and nongovernment agencies, academic centers, and the private sector to create partnerships to systematically tackle health inequities.
AB - Achieving health equity requires an evaluation of social, economic, environmental, and other factors that impede optimal health for all. Family medicine has long valued an ecological perspective of health, partnering with families and communities. However, both the quantity and degree of continued health disparities requires that family medicine intentionally work toward improvement in health equity. In recognition of this, Family Medicine for America’s Health (FMAHealth) formed a Health Equity Tactic Team (HETT). The team’s charge was to address primary care’s capacity to improve health equity by developing action-oriented approaches accessible to all family physicians. The HETT has produced a number of projects. These include the Starfield II Summit, the focus of which was “Primary Care’s Role in Achieving Health Equity.” Multidisciplinary thought leaders shared their work around health equity, and actionable interventions were developed. These formed the basis of subsequent work by the HETT. This includes the Health Equity Toolkit, designed for a broad interdisciplinary audience of learners to learn to improve care systems, reduce disparities, and improve patient outcomes. The HETT is also building a business case for health equity. This has focused efforts on demonstrating to the private sector an economic argument for health equity. The HETT has formed a close partnership with the American Academy of Family Physicians’ (AAFP’s) Center for Diversity and Health Equity (CDHE), collaborating on numerous efforts to increase awareness of health equity. The team has also focused on engaging leadership in all eight US national family medicine organizations to participate in its activities and to ensure that health equity remains a top priority in its leadership. Looking ahead, family medicine will be required to continuously engage with government and nongovernment agencies, academic centers, and the private sector to create partnerships to systematically tackle health inequities.
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U2 - 10.22454/FamMed.2019.921819
DO - 10.22454/FamMed.2019.921819
M3 - Article
C2 - 30736047
AN - SCOPUS:85061262619
SN - 0742-3225
VL - 51
SP - 198
EP - 203
JO - Family medicine
JF - Family medicine
IS - 2
ER -