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Editorial
. 2024 May 22;3(7):100982.
doi: 10.1016/j.jacadv.2024.100982. eCollection 2024 Jul.

Health Equity: A Call to Action for Innovators, Clinical Leaders, and Policymakers

Amber E Johnson  1 , Jelani K Grant  2 , Johanna P Contreras  3 , Aubrey J Grant  4 , Karen Joynt Maddox  5 , Partho P Sengupta  6 , Adedapo Iluyomade  7 , Modele O Ogunniyi  8   9
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Editorial

Health Equity: A Call to Action for Innovators, Clinical Leaders, and Policymakers

Amber E Johnson et al. JACC Adv. .
No abstract available

Keywords: health equity; health policy; technological innovation.

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Conflict of interest statement

Dr Johnson has received research support from the 10.13039/100000050National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (K23HL165110); and has received honoraria from 10.13039/100004339Sanofi and 10.13039/100006520Edwards Lifesciences. Dr Aubrey Grant is a co-founder and chief equity officer for Equity Commons. Dr Maddox receives research support from the 10.13039/100000050National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute (R01HL143421 and R01HL164561), the 10.13039/100000056National Institute of Nursing Research (U01NR020555), the 10.13039/100000049National Institute on Aging (R01AG060935, R01AG063759, and R21AG065526), and the 10.13039/100006108National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (UL1TR002345); serves as an associate editor for the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA); previously served on the Health Policy Advisory Council for the Centene Corporation (St. Louis, MO); has received research funding from 10.13039/100014940Humana. Dr Ogunniyi has received institutional research grant support from AstraZeneca, 10.13039/100001003Boehringer Ingelheim, Cardurion Pharmaceuticals, and 10.13039/100004319Pfizer; and serves on the V-INCLUSION trial steering committee. All other authors have reported that they have no relationships relevant to the contents of this paper to disclose.

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Breaking the Cycle of Health Care Utilization and Readmission Within a patient’s clinical context, there are implications for innovators, clinical leaders, and policymakers to focus on health equity, thus breaking the cycle of ineffective health care utilization and readmissions. By strategically centering policies around: 1) coverage and access; 2) payment and care delivery; and 3) social and economic issues, patient outcomes could improve on an individual level as well as from a public health perspective.
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