National Center for Primary Care, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Department of Community Health and Preventive Medicine, Morehouse School of Medicine, Atlanta, GA.
Ethn Dis. 2019 Jun 13;29(Suppl 2):329-342. doi: 10.18865/ed.29.S2.329. eCollection 2019.
Health disparities have persisted despite decades of efforts to eliminate them at the national, regional, state and local levels. Policies have been a driving force in creating and exacerbating health disparities, but they can also play a major role in eliminating disparities. Research evidence and input from affected community-level stakeholders are critical components of evidence-based health policy that will advance health equity. The Transdisciplinary Collaborative Center (TCC) for Health Disparities Research at Morehouse School of Medicine consists of five subprojects focused on studying and informing health equity policy related to maternal-child health, mental health, health information technology, diabetes, and leadership/workforce development. This article describes a "health equity lens" as defined, operationalized and applied by the TCC to inform health policy development, implementation, and analysis. Prioritizing health equity in laws and organizational policies provides an upstream foundation for ensuring that the laws are implemented at the midstream and downstream levels to advance health equity.
尽管国家、地区、州和地方各级已经做出了几十年的努力来消除健康差异，但这些差异仍然存在。政策一直是造成和加剧健康差异的主要推动力，但它们也可以在消除差异方面发挥重要作用。研究证据和受影响的社区层面利益相关者的意见是循证健康政策的关键组成部分，这些政策将促进健康公平。莫尔豪斯医学院的跨学科协作中心（TCC）有五个子项目，专注于研究和提供与母婴健康、心理健康、医疗信息技术、糖尿病和领导力/劳动力发展相关的健康公平政策信息。本文描述了 TCC 用于为健康政策制定、实施和分析提供信息的“健康公平视角”的定义、实施和应用。在法律和组织政策中优先考虑健康公平，为确保法律在中游和下游层面得到实施以促进健康公平提供了上游基础。
