[EQ] Challenges To Using A Business Case For Addressing Health Disparities

Challenges To Using A Business Case For Addressing Health Disparities

 

N. Lurie, S. A. Somers, A. Fremont, J. Angeles, E. K. Murphy, and A. Hamblin

Health Affairs, Volume 27, No. 2 March-April 2008

 

Available online at: http://content.healthaffairs.org/cgi/content/full/27/2/334

 

“….The authors consider the challenges to quantifying both the business case and the social case for addressing disparities, which is central to achieving equity in the U.S. health care system.

 

They describe the practical and methodological challenges faced by health plans exploring the business and social cases for undertaking disparity-reducing interventions.

 

Despite these challenges, sound business and quality improvement principles can guide health care organizations seeking to reduce disparities. Place-based interventions may help focus resources and engage health care and community partners who can share in the costs of—and gains from—such efforts …”

 

Nicole Lurie) is senior natural scientist and the Paul O’Neill Alcoa Professor at RAND in Arlington, Virginia.
Stephen Somers is president and chief executive officer of the Center for Health Care Strategies (CHCS) in Hamilton, New Jersey.
Allen Fremont is a natural scientist and sociologist at RAND in Santa Monica, California. January Angeles is a program officer at the CHCS.
Erin Murphy is a research assistant at RAND in Arlington. Allison Hamblin is a program officer at the CHCS. RAND and the CHCS are two of the coordinating and managing partners of the National Health Plan Collaborative, whose activities are recounted in this Perspective.

The authors acknowledge funding from the Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, which are coordinating and managing partners of the National Health Plan Collaborative (NHPC).

 

 

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