Support and Resources for Addressing Health Inequity and Inequality in the US
Updated: September 8, 2023
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About Deb Gordon
Deb Gordon is the co-founder and CEO of Umbra Health Advocacy, and author of The Health Care Consumer’s Manifesto (Praeger 2020), a book about shopping for health care based on consumer research she conducted as a senior fellow in the Harvard Kennedy School’s Mossavar-Rahmani Center for Business and Government between 2017 and 2019. Her research and writing have been published in JAMA Network Open, the Harvard Business Review blog, USA Today, RealClear Politics, TheHill, and Managed Care Magazine.
Deb previously held executive roles in health insurance and health care technology services. Deb is an Aspen Institute Health Innovators Fellow and an Eisenhower Fellow, for which she traveled to Australia, New Zealand and Singapore to explore the role of consumers in high-performing health systems. She was a 2011 Boston Business Journal 40-under-40 honoree, and a volunteer in MIT’s Delta V start-up accelerator, the Fierce Healthcare Innovation Awards and in various mentorship programs.
sources
- American Lung Association. "Current Asthma Demographics." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Center for American Progress. "Discrimination Prevents LGBTQ People From Accessing Health Care.." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Community in Action. "Pathways to Health Equity." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Health Payer Intelligence. "Coverage Rates Equalize For LGBT Community, But Disparities Remain." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- International Journey of Environmental Research and Public Health. . "Health Inequities in LGBT People and Nursing Interventions to Reduce Them: A Systematic Review." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Journal of the National Medical Association. "Diversity improves performance and outcomes." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. "Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health Status and Community Functioning Among Persons with Untreated Mental Illness." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Journal of Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities. "The Effects of Race and Racial Concordance on Patient-Physician Communication: A Systematic Review of the Literature." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- KFF. "What is Driving Widening Racial Disparities in Life Expectancy?." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- KFF. "Key Data on Health and Health Care by Race and Ethnicity." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- KFF. "Status of State Medicaid Expansion Decisions: Interactive Map." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- KFF. "Key Facts About the Uninsured Population." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- KFF. "The Effects of Medicaid Expansion under the ACA: Studies from January 2014 to January 2020." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Medicaid.gov. "Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP)." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities. "The Economic Burden of Racial, Ethnic, and Educational Health Disparities in the U.S., 2018.." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Penn Leonard Davis Institute of Health Economics. "“Health Inequity in the United States: A Primer." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- The Commonwealth Fund. "In Focus: Reducing Racial Disparities in Health Care by Confronting Racism." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Time. "Your ZIP Code Might Determine How Long You Live—and the Difference Could Be Decades." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- National Institutes of Health. "NIH Guideline on The Inclusion of Women and Minorities as Subjects in Clinical Research - Updated August 1, 2000." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Infant Mortality." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- United States Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. "Prioritizing Minority Mental Health." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- United States Department of Health and Human Services.. "New Reports Show Record 35 Million People Enrolled in Coverage Related to the Affordable Care Act, with Historic 21 Million People Enrolled in Medicaid Expansion Coverage." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- United States Environmental Protection Agency. "“EPA Research: Environmental Justice and Air Pollution." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- United States Environmental Protection Agency. "The Links Between Air Pollution and Childhood Asthma." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- Urban Institute. "Who Gained Health Insurance Coverage Under the ACA, and Where Do They Live?." Accessed August 8, 2023.
- USA Today. "Gen Z is driving force among adults identifying as LGBTQ, poll shows. Here's a breakdown." Accessed August 8, 2023.