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HEALTH EQUITY
According to AAFP policy, the organization “supports the attainment of the highest level of health for all people. Health includes the capacity to heal and to function within the context of the family, community, and environment. Numerous social, genetic, and environmental factors influence health to varying degrees. An individual's health is not measured simply by the absence of disease.”
“Family physicians promote health equity by considering the balance of social determinants that impact the health of an individual, family, community, population, and environment. Family physicians can mitigate health inequity by collaborating with entities including but not limited to: government, business, educational systems and health and social service providers, to affect positive change for the populations they serve.”
Health equity resources
The EveryONE Project
The EveryONE Project from AAFP maintains a set of tools, educational opportunities, and other resources to help members define and address health equity in their practices and their communities.
Health Equity Curricular Toolkit
The Health Equity Curricular Toolkit was published as part of AAFP’s Family Medicine for America’s Health and inspired by the Starfield II Health Equity Summit. This toolkit provides a structured curricular tool to facilitate exploration of some of the most pressing questions around social determinants of health, vulnerable populations, and economics and policy. The toolkit also provides resources to promote skill-building to confront drivers of persistent and pervasive inequities.
AAFP CME offerings
Health Equity Leading the Change
This free health equity CME course is designed to help medical professionals better understand and implement how to actively work toward providing more equitable and compassionate health care. According to AAFP, the course focuses on five pillars that encompass major influences impacting population health.
- Striving for health equity
- Addressing social determinants of health
- Supporting vulnerable populations
- Championing economics and policy to reduce health disparities
- Understanding the impact of climate change on population health
Health Equity for EveryONE
This collection of 42 videos and downloadable lecture materials is designed to help you better appreciate what a non-inclusive patient experience might look like and why certain groups feel isolated, resulting in a less-than-optimal patient-doctor relationship. Experts in diversity, equity, and inclusion discuss how race, disabilities, language, bias, and other stigma impact the ways we communicate with each other.
More health equity CME from AAFP
View all AAFP CME activities on health equity to enhance patient care and earn CME credit.