Achieving Health Equity: What’s Next? Webinar

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For this webinar, leaders in public health discussed key issues that harm health in America’s Indigenous, Black and Latino communities, as well as solutions, including ways to:

  • Transform how we provide health care in ways that address disparities
  • Maximize resources and opportunities for pandemic recovery in communities of color in ways that address the social determinants of health that contribute to inequity
  • Determine how America’s infrastructure – housing, the health care system, transportation, internet access and other factors — can be changed to improve health
  • Address the impact of systemic racism on medical care

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