The stark inequity in safe, affordable housing due to unfair policies and practices (e.g., redlining) underpins inequities across multiple social determinants of health (SDOH) and health outcomes.

If we don’t have equity, we don’t have quality, says the CMO of the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services. The Center for Medicare & Medicaid Services’ Chief Medical Officer and Director of the ...

Massachusetts’ Public Health Commissioner discusses the need to break down barriers within organizations and between public- and private-sector health organizations to achieve better care and health ...

A four-tier model offers a pragmatic framework for establishing meaningful measurements that will advance equity for patients and for the staff of the organization.

Three proposals for improving the law to reflect 21st-century drug development practices.

Health care leaders are often surprised to learn that their operations contribute significantly to a warming climate. In addition to their roles as responders to and victims of extreme weather events, ...

Rising-risk patients receiving Medicaid experience worsening medical and behavioral health conditions and increased acute care (ED and hospital) utilization, while typically being disconnected from ...

In this article, the authors discuss the growing crisis of opioid access barriers for people with serious illness, who commonly require these medications as a first-line pain treatment. The authors ...

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene determined that the spread of misinformation about Covid-19 was having a harmful health impact, particularly on communities of color with low ...

There is a tremendous opportunity for group practices to engage patients before the in-person office encounter to accomplish both clinical and operational goals. A new remote workforce model combined ...

Jackie Gerhart, Eric Poon, and Bob Kocher have nothing to disclose. Stephen Morrissey is the Executive Managing Editor for the New England Journal of Medicine.Thomas H. Lee is Chief Medical Officer of ...

Especially important during a pandemic, health care’s common challenge is making sure how we deliver care and change the structures of society actually contributes to the health of the people we ...