How Humana is moving beyond awareness during National Minority Health Month

Becker's Healthcare May 8, 2024
J. Nwando Olayiwola, MD, chief health equity officer at Humana

National Minority Health Month (NMHM) is an annual observance that builds awareness about health disparities that persist among Black/African American, Hispanic/Latinx, Asian-American/Pacific Islander, Native American/Indigenous, and other minority communities across the United States.

Beyond awareness, it’s an opportunity to address unmet health needs and strengthen the capacity of local communities to eliminate the disproportionate burden of premature death and preventable illness on minority populations through prevention, early detection, and control of disease complications. Although the United States boasts the highest per capita spending on healthcare in the world, we fare worse in health outcomes than countries with much lower levels of healthcare spending and similar levels of wealth on a range of health outcomes. The differences in outcomes are...

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