Building the Business Case for Health Equity
1 Mar 2024
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Does improving health equity also improve profitability? A trio of health industry experts chewed over that question and many more at a TCB Talks event at the Minneapolis Club on Thursday morning. TCB senior editor Liz Fedor moderated the panel.
Rachel Hardeman, the Blue Cross Endowed Professor of Health and Racial Equity at the University of Minnesota School of Public Health, started off the discussion by making a distinction between health equity and equality. Health equity, Hardeman told attendees, is the “state in which everyone has a fair opportunity to be healthy.”