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Maternal Health: Person-centered Care

To work toward reducing known health disparities, AHA has developed numerous resources that emphasize the importance and impact of person-centered care.
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Keck School of Medicine at USC proposes fix to primary care provider pipeline

The Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California uses an immersive model called the Primary Care Initiative to inspire medical students to pursue careers in primary care.
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Addressing the Societal Factors that Influence Health: Framework Presentation

The AHA’s Societal Factors that Influence Health Framework is designed to guide hospitals’ strategies to identify patients' social needs, the social drivers of health in their communities and the systemic causes that lead to health inequities so all stakeholders can take action around these critical issues.
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Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities - Government Links

Links to government resources for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities.
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Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities - Funding Links

Links to funding resources for eliminating racial and ethnic disparities.
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Eliminating Racial and Ethnic Disparities - AHA Links

AHA links to resources to help eliminate racial and ethnic disparities.

Health Equity Roadmap Media Coverage

Media coverage of the AHA Health Equity Roadmap.

Health Equity Transformation Model: Literature Overview

Providing culturally and linguistically appropriate services is key to advancing health equity, improving patient safety and quality of care and eliminating health disparities. This literature overview provides a series of resources intended to guide and empower efforts to reach this critical milepost.

Indiana hospital heads to the barbershop to trim cardiovascular disease among Black men

Indiana University Health recently began a new community health initiative to provide prevention, education and early detection of cardiovascular disease — which includes free blood pressure screenings — in area barbershops.

COVID Inequities and Outreach Key Takeaways

AHA hospitals and partners have found several effective strategies that have been successful in increasing vaccine uptake. Over the coming weeks, we will highlight different strategies and examples of how they have been used to improve vaccine confidence.