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  • FPE TOC
    Preface

    Foreword

    Author Information

    Learning Objectives

    Key Practice Recommendations

    Sections

    Risks of Race-Based Medicine

    Modern medicine has developed over the past 2 centuries in societies stratified by race and ethnicity. Race-based medicine analyzes health risks and treatment based on a patient’s race, often assuming that differences in health status are due to biology and genetics. In the...

    Thinking Upstream: Social and Structural Determinants of Health

    The health impact of the conditions in which people are born, grow, work, live, and age have been recognized for centuries. However, widespread acceptance of this impact remains contentious, as inequities in morbidity and mortality represent the enduring legacies of...

    Creating a Welcoming Practice and Building Diversity Among the Health Care Team

    Despite extensive research documenting the potential of diversity, health equity, and inclusion initiatives to improve outcomes for the most vulnerable patients, attacks on these efforts in both private and public sector health care institutions are proliferating. Given...

    Addressing Health Equity in Your Practice and Community

    Seeking heath equity means striving to give everyone a fair opportunity to be as healthy as possible by working to eliminate health disparities and determinants that adversely affect certain groups. An alternative framework is to define health equity by quality of outcomes....

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