HealthLeaders Media February 16, 2022
Christopher Cheney

Health equity has been added to the Quadruple Aim of improving population health, enhancing the care experience, reducing costs, and promoting workforce well-being.

KEY TAKEAWAYS

– The first step in addressing health equity is identifying disparities.

– Designing and implementing evidence-based interventions, investing in equity measurement, and incentivizing achievement of equity are essential to address health equity.

Health equity should be added as the fifth element of a Quintuple Aim to guide healthcare improvement efforts, a recent Viewpoint article published by JAMA says.

In 2008, the Triple Aim for healthcare improvement was introduced, featuring improvement of population health, enhancement of the care experience, and reduction of costs. In 2014, the Quadruple Aim for healthcare improvement was created with the addition...

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