Health equity is achieved when every person has the opportunity to “attain his or her full health potential” and no one is “disadvantaged from achieving this potential because of social position or other socially determined circumstances.” Health inequities are reflected in differences in length of life; quality of life; rates of disease, disability, and death; severity of disease; and access to treatment.
Following are resources that KHC's Quality Improvement Advisors recommend organizations utilize.
Kansas Health Equity Partnership, with KHC and KHA
KHC/iCompass webinar series
Operationalizing Health Equity Practices, with Kellie Goodson, Part 1 of 3 (8/24/2022)
Webinar recording | Webinar handout | Homework spreadheet
Operationalizing Health Equity Practices, with Kellie Goodson, Part 2 of 3 (9/28/2022)
Webinar recording | Webinar handout | REAL Data Stratification template | "Understanding Health Equity through Data Disaggregation"
Operationalizing Health Equity Practices, with Kellie Goodson, Part 3 of 3 (10/26/2022)
Webinar recording | Webinar handout
Additional resources
- HQIN Resources on Health Equity
- HQIN Health Equity Learning Module Series
- HQIN Health Equity Guide
- Health Equity Summit — No-cost access to event archive
- American Medical Association resources
- CDC resources
- American Public Health Association resources
- SAMHSA behavioral health equity resources
- CMS Framework for Health Equity 2022-2032 (pdf)
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement Framework for Improving Health Equity
- American Hospital Association's Health Equity Roadmap
- iCompass Academy: Social Determinants of Health: Impact on Population Health
- iCompass Academy: Supporting Clinical Community Integration with Technology
- iCompass Academy: Achieving Health Equity by Leveraging Diversity, Inclusion and Patient-Centered Care
- iCompass Academy: Equity and Social Health Needs
- Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services Health Equity Initiatives
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Health Equity resources
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation resources for Achieving Health Equity
- Institute for Healthcare Improvement Health Equity resources
- American Hospital Association Health Equity Roadmap
- American Hospital Association Toolkit for Eliminating Health Care Disparities