Addressing Health Disparities
Addressing Health Disparities means we work to ensure everyone has a fair and just opportunity to attain their highest level of health. This involves ongoing efforts to address avoidable inequalities and injustices, and the elimination of health and healthcare disparities. Achieving this goal requires authentic and focused and ongoing efforts to overcome economic, social, and other obstacles to health and healthcare; and means eliminating preventable health disparities – specifically by addressing social driver (determinants) of health.
For a quick explanation, please see this minute long CHC video.
Evolution of IHI Triple Aim to Quintuple Aim, adapted from National Library of Medicine.
Culturally & Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS)
Culturally and Linguistically Appropriate Services (CLAS) is defined as services that are respectful of and responsive to individual health beliefs, practices, preferred language, health literacy levels and communication needs.
The National CLAS Standards are intended to improve quality and help eliminate health care disparities by establishing a blueprint for health and health care organizations.
