Role of Academic Health Systems in Improving and Sustaining Maternal Health

In 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA) published its strategic plan detailing a road map for action and accountability in embedding racial justice and advancing health equity. The AMA’s five strategic approaches—(1) embed equity, (2) build alliances and share power, (3) ensure equity in inn...

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Hauptverfasser: Makinde Chinekezi, Olufunmilayo, Sutton, Karey M, Johnson-Agbakwu, Crista E, Taylor, Yhenneko J
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Sprache:eng
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Zusammenfassung:In 2021, the American Medical Association (AMA) published its strategic plan detailing a road map for action and accountability in embedding racial justice and advancing health equity. The AMA’s five strategic approaches—(1) embed equity, (2) build alliances and share power, (3) ensure equity in innovation, (4) push upstream, and (5) foster truth, reconciliation, racial healing, and transformation—provide an important framework for academic health systems to advance maternal health equity. The next step is a community advisory board, which allows an academic health system to leverage the community’s expertise, knowledge, and lived experience by partnering with local champions who can help develop the programmatic, clinical, and research directions of the academic health system. Building community capacity by integrating peer support/navigators and/or community health workers as vital members of the academic health system’s workforce will advance maternal health equity through the roles these individuals play as reproductive and sexual health champions in their respective communities.
DOI:10.1093/oso/9780197662984.003.0042