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A team of healthcare policy researchers has looked at efforts to advance health equity in eight different nations, and found some potentially helpful lessons for leaders in the U.S. healthcare system who are attempting to do the same.
In a blog published to the website of the New York City-based Commonwealth Fund and entitled “Advancing Health Equity: Learning from Other Countries,” Nason Maani, Ph.D., and Sandro Galea, M.D., M.P.H., DrPH, looked at experiences in Australia, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, and the United Kingdom, as leaders in those healthcare systems work to advance health equity and end systemic racism, just as U.S. healthcare system leaders are working to do. Maani is the 2019-2020 U.K. Harness Fellow in Health Care Policy and Practice research Fellow London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, and Galea is the Dean and Robert A. Knox Professor, Boston University School of Public Health.