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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
How Psychologists Can Help Achieve Equity in Health Care—Advancing Innovative Partnerships and Models of Care Delivery: Introduction to the Special Issue
American Psychologist, Volume 78, No. 2, Year 2023
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For as long as the United States has been a country, the distribution of good health has been unequal. In this special issue, we consider what psychology can do to understand and ameliorate these inequalities. The introduction sets the context for why psychologists are well positioned, well trained, and needed to champion health equity via innovative partnerships and models of care delivery.Aguide is provided for engaging andmaintaining a health equity lens in advocacy, research, education/training, and practice efforts for psychologists, and readers are invited to apply a health equity lens to reimagine their existing and forthcoming work. More broadly, the special issue brings together a collection of 14 articles across three core themes: (a) integration of care, (b) intersections between social drivers/ determinants of health, and (c) intersecting social systems. The articles collectively highlight the need for new conceptual models to guide research, education, and practice, the importance of engaging in transdisciplinary partnerships, and the urgency of collaborating with community members in crosssystem alliances to tackle social drivers of health, structural racism, and contextual risks, all ofwhich are fundamental drivers of health inequity. Although psychologists are uniquely positioned to investigate causes of inequality, develop health equity interventions, and advocate for policy changes, our voice and vision have beenmissing from broader national dialogues around these issues. This issue is poised to provide examples of existing equity work and inspire ALL psychologists to engage for the first time or deepen existing health equity work with renewed vigor and reimagined possibilities. © 2023 American Psychological Association
Authors & Co-Authors
Thurston, Idia Binitie
United States, College Station
Texas A&m University
Alegría, Margarita
United States, Boston
Massachusetts General Hospital
United States, Boston
Harvard Medical School
Hood, Kristina Beatrice
United States, Richmond
Virginia Commonwealth University
Wilton, Leo
United States, Binghamton
Binghamton University State University of new York
Statistics
Citations: 1
Authors: 4
Affiliations: 7
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1037/amp0001153
ISSN:
0003066X
Research Areas
Health System And Policy