Join The Root Cause Coalition and experts from FSG as they discuss why achieving health equity depends on racial equity and share strategies that leading health care companies employ to advance racial equity.
The presentation - based on a report authored by FSG in partnership with PolicyLink – will explore the promising efforts of leading health care companies to advance racial equity and improve their business performance. People of color disproportionately experience poor health outcomes. Structural racism is a root cause of this inequity. And it shapes the social determinants of health that many health care organizations, community-based organizations, policymakers, and advocates aim to address through multisector collaboration.
The report profiles integrated health systems and commercial insurance companies that recognize that place and race matter to promoting health equity. These leading companies are redesigning the ways they provide core services, improving community conditions that affect health, and fostering internal catalysts to drive their work forward. As a result, they are poised to not only enhance their business performance but also deliver on Triple-Aim objectives of better population health, better experience of care, and lower costs. This stands in contrast to many interventions to advance health equity that do not intentionally acknowledge racial equity as a critical success factor.
University of San Francisco California