Search results for "Social determinants of health"
Promoting diversity in medicine
An expert addressed medicine's limited diversity as the “health care crisis of our times” and offered potential solutions at Internal Medicine Meeting 2022.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2022/07/promoting-diversity-in-medicine.htm
1 Jul 2022
New ACP learning activity focuses on socioeconomically disadvantaged patients
The online curriculum Caring with Compassion helps clinicians use team-based skills and biopsychosocial models of care to provide personalized care for at-risk patients.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/03/26/5.htm
26 Mar 2019
Health equity: The finish line
Repairing multiple layers within systems is fundamental in changing policy and involves advocacy at the individual level and at the professional society level.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2023/04/health-equity-the-finish-line.htm
1 Apr 2023
New Bedside Rounds podcast examines “The White Plague”
Learn how physicians and reformers developed ways to fight tuberculosis.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2018/10/16/4.htm
16 Oct 2018
Residents reimagine antiracism curriculum
Residents interested in diversity, equity, and inclusion are taking matters into their own hands, creating new training initiatives about the subject as a formal part of their medical school curriculum.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/07/residents-reimagine-antiracism-curriculum.htm
1 Jul 2021
ACP calls for comprehensive reform in series of papers offering new vision of health care
“Better Is Possible: The American College of Physicians' Vision for the U.S. Health Care System” issues a bold call to action.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2020/01/28/1.htm
28 Jan 2020
Championing well-being amid COVID-19
Throughout the pandemic's constant challenges, ACP members have taken care of each other by creating supportive spaces, working together, telling stories, and even climbing mountains.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2022/03/championing-well-being-amid-covid-19.htm
1 Mar 2022
New guideline recommends low-dose aspirin for many fewer patients
Changes to the American College of Cardiology/American Heart Association guideline include no longer routinely giving low-dose aspirin for primary prevention to adults older than age 70 years or to younger patients who are not at high risk.
https://immattersacp.org/weekly/archives/2019/03/26/1.htm
26 Mar 2019
Keeping up with cannabis
This issue also covers psoriatic arthritis, staffing for primary care, and social determinants of health.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2019/04/keeping-up-with-cannabis.htm
1 Apr 2019
Making primary care more equitable
The Primary Care Collaborative (PCC) annual conference focused on creating a more equitable health care delivery system by increasing support, strengthening systems, and fixing disparities.
https://immattersacp.org/archives/2021/02/making-primary-care-more-equitable.htm
1 Feb 2021