Removing Barriers to Equitable Health
eModules
In these activities, healthcare professionals will explore the disparities in health outcomes for various populations, examine how environmental factors and structural racism can create barriers to health, and discover best practices and solutions to help overcome those barriers.
Removing Barriers to Equitable Health: Public Health
Discover the factors and barriers that influence health in the rural and LGBTQ communities. Then explore best practices and resources to help remove these barriers and improve health outcomes for patients in these communities. CE and MOC Credits Available
Removing Barriers to Equitable Health: Health Care System
In this module, explore how structural racism presents barriers across racial and ethnic groups and best practices for removing them.
CE and MOC Credits Available
AHA Publications on Health Equity
Health Equity
Leveraging Implementation Science for Cardiovascular Health Equity: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Call to Action: Structural Racism as a Fundamental Driver of Health Disparities: A Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association Addressing Social Determinants of Health and Mitigating Health Disparities Across the Lifespan in Congenital Heart Disease: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Addressing Social Determinants of Health in the Care of Patients with Heart Failure: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Health Disparities in Peripheral Artery Disease: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Implementation of Prevention Science to Eliminate Health Care Inequities in Achieving Cardiovascular Health: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association Strategies to Reduce Racial and Ethnic Inequities in Stroke Preparedness, Care, Recovery, and Risk Factor Control: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association
Health Equity in Women
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Call to Action for Cardiovascular Disease in Women: Epidemiology, Awareness, Access, and Delivery of Equitable Health Care: A Presidential Advisory from the American Heart Association -
Cardiovascular Disease Risk Factors in Women: The Impact of Race and Ethnicity: A Scientific Statement from the American Heart Association