health equity

AMA Update 545: Living with chronic pain, lifespan vs healthspan, and updated dietary guideline recommendations

18 de diciembre de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:11:55 0 Comments

Is obesity decreasing in the US? Do women live longer than men? What are the US Dietary Guidelines 2025? Does America have a healthy diet? AMA’s Vice President of Science, Medicine and Public Health, Andrea Garcia, JD, MPH, discusses recent findings on obesity trends in the US, upcoming 2025 US Dietary Guidelines changes, the importance of a healthy diet and the need for health equity in dietary recommendations. Also covering Americans’ healthspan lifespan gap and the implications of living longer with diseases. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 444: How Ochsner Health is taking on the leading health issues in Louisiana to improve patient outcomes

12 de abril de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:10:13 0 Comments

Is Louisiana a healthy state? How does geography affect health care? Why are community health programs important? How is healthcare affected by socioeconomic status?

Yvens Laborde, MD, chief community medical officer and medical director of global health education at Ochsner Health, joins for a new episode of the AMA’s “What Keeps Me Up” series, where we talk with health care leaders about one thing that’s keeping them up—and what they’re doing about it. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 439: Addressing social determinants of health, causes of health disparities, and improving access to care

1 de abril de 2024 casimedicos AMA Update 00:09:51 0 Comments

Why is access to health care important? What are the effects of food insecurity on health? What are the benefits of a diverse workforce in health care?

Our guest is Ketul Patel, CEO, Virginia Mason Franciscan Health, and President, Northwest Region of CommonSpirit. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 337: Health disparities in Chicago and the work to solve them with RUSH University Medical Center

8 de agosto de 2023 casimedicos AMA Update 00:23:32 0 Comments

From RUSH University Medical Center, President and CEO Omar Lateef, DO, and David Ansell, MD, MPH, senior vice president of community health equity, join to discuss Chicago’s health disparities and how RUSH is partnering with the community to solve them. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 267: Recognizing and addressing disparities in health care with Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD

2 de marzo de 2023 casimedicos AMA Update 00:18:29 0 Comments

Camara Phyllis Jones, MD, MPH, PhD, a family physician, epidemiologist and anti-racism thought leader, is well-known for her allegories on race and racism. In this episode, she joins American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger to discuss specific ways physicians and medical students can advance health equity and address systemic disparities in medicine.

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AMA Update 261: Challenging racial bias and medical myth-busting on Tiktok, Twitter and Instagram with Joel Bervell

16 de febrero de 2023 casimedicos AMA Update 00:14:41 0 Comments

Joel Bervell, a social media educator and fourth-year medical student in Baltimore, shares how he is using his social media platform to address health disparities, racial bias and misinformation in health care. Joel is the former AMA medical student digital fellow. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 207: Public health: the challenges and opportunities physicians face with Frederick Chen, MD, MPH

19 de octubre de 2022 casimedicos AMA Update 00:13:41 0 Comments

Today we discuss pressing public health issues and the role of physicians and the AMA in our public health response with Frederick Chen, MD, MPH, the AMA’s new chief health and science Officer. American Medical Association CXO Todd Unger hosts.

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AMA Update 92: CDC’s Dr. Alex Kallen discusses what physicians need to know about infection prevention and control

19 de octubre de 2021 casimedicos AMA Update 00:13:43 0 Comments

AMA CXO Todd Unger talks with the CDC’s Dr. Alex Kallen, chief of the Prevention and Response Branch in the Division of Healthcare Quality Promotion, about the importance of infection prevention and control and what physicians need to know about updated guidance in this area.  

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AMA Update 77: How one medical student is changing the conversation about COVID vaccination in Black communities

26 de agosto de 2021 casimedicos AMA Update 00:16:02 0 Comments

A discussion with LaShyra “Lash” Nolen, founding executive director of the We Got Us Empowerment Project and president of her medical school class at Harvard Medical School, about how she’s empowering Black communities to make decisions about COVID vaccines by providing accurate, culturally sensitive information in unique ways.

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AMA Update 39: AMA releases health equity strategic plan

18 de mayo de 2021 casimedicos AMA Update 00:13:15 0 Comments

A discussion with Dr. Aletha Maybank, AMA’s Chief Health Equity Officer, about the recent release of the AMA’s three-year roadmap aimed at embedding racial justice and advancing health equity in medicine.

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