DocTalk Ep. 203 | The relationship between data and health equity
By Nordic / March 8, 2023
COVID-19 exacerbated healthcare inequities worldwide, making them more apparent than ever. This initiated momentous calls to address healthcare disparities, with data efforts embedded into these requests. In this episode of DocTalk, Chief Medical Officer Dr. Craig Joseph and Head of Thought Leadership Dr. Jerome Pagani explain the differences between health equity and health equality and the role that data inequity plays.
Here is research to support this episode:
- Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality & Institute of Medicine. (2018). Race, ethnicity, and language data: Standardization for health care quality improvement. https://www.ahrq.gov/research/findings/final-reports/iomracereport/index.html
- American Hospital Association. (2021). Market insights: Using data to reduce health disparities and improve health equity. https://www.aha.org/system/files/media/file/2021/03/Market_Insights_Disparities_Data.pdf
- American Public Health Association. (2023). COVID-19 and equity. https://www.apha.org/topics-and-issues/communicable-disease/coronavirus/equity
- National Research Council (US) Panel on DHHS Collection of Race and Ethnic Data. (2004). Eliminating health disparities: Measurement and data needs (M. Ver Ploeg & E. Perrin, Eds.). National Academies Press. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK215751/
- Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. (2021). Charting a course for an equity-centered data system: Recommendations from the National Commission to Transform Public Health Data Systems. https://www.nationalcollaborative.org/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/RWJF-Transforming-Public-Health-Data-Systems.pdf
- Skerrett, P. (2023, Jan. 20). The WHO’s new pandemic treaty is good for the world—And the U.S. STAT. https://www.statnews.com/2023/01/20/new-pandemic-treaty-good-for-world-and-america/
- Institute of Medicine. (2003). Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Care. National Academies Press. https://doi.org/10.17226/12875
- Yao, Q., Li, X., Luo, F., Yang, L., Liu, C., & Sun, J. (2019). The historical roots and seminal research on health equity: A referenced publication year spectroscopy (RPYS) analysis. International Journal for Equity in Health, 18, 152. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12939-019-1058-3