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RWJF asked the Health and Medicine Division of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine to help delineate the causes of and the solutions to health inequities in the United States. The focus of this report is on what communities can do to promote health equity and on the broader policy context and contributions of stakeholders that can support communities. The committee reviewed the root causes and structural barriers that need to be overcome, community examples to address health inequties, as well as policies to support change at multiple levels.
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Communities in Action: Pathways to Health Equity
Consensus Study Report
·2017
In the United States, some populations suffer from far greater disparities in health than others. Those disparities are caused not only by fundamental differences in health status across segments of the population, but also because of inequities in factors that impact health status, so-called determ...
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