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What inequity means for patients everywhere

Health inequities can fracture the healthcare of individuals and entire communities.


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  • Patient perspectives: defining health inequities - and how to combat them

  • Discussing equity in healthcare matters

  • Understanding healthcare equity as a provider, patient, or person of color

  • BIPOC + LGBTQIA patients: why education is needed

  • How to fix racial disparities in the healthcare system

  • Understanding racial disparities & failures in the healthcare system

  • Patient perspectives: how women of color can navigate their healing healthcare journeys

  • Why medical education needs to include the BIPOC community

  • How racial disparities affect healthcare, through the eyes of one doctor

  • Covid-19 illuminates how discrimination drives health disparities among black people

Up Next

  • Patient perspectives: defining health inequities - and how to combat them

  • Discussing equity in healthcare matters

  • Understanding healthcare equity as a provider, patient, or person of color

  • BIPOC + LGBTQIA patients: why education is needed

  • How to fix racial disparities in the healthcare system

  • Understanding racial disparities & failures in the healthcare system

  • Patient perspectives: how women of color can navigate their healing healthcare journeys

  • Why medical education needs to include the BIPOC community

  • How racial disparities affect healthcare, through the eyes of one doctor

  • Covid-19 illuminates how discrimination drives health disparities among black people

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