Advancing Health Equity2023-02-23T15:01:15-05:00

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The COVID-19 pandemic has shone a harsh spotlight on the racial and ethnic disparities in patient experiences and outcomes that exist in our healthcare system. While researchers have long been aware of health disparities affecting historically underserved communities for many noncommunicable diseases such as breast cancer, diabetes and asthma, the pandemic has brought inequities of all kinds into mainstream consciousness.

MHQP is uniquely positioned to help advance all aspects of the health equity agenda through shared measurement and collective action. While we understand that this issue is deeply-rooted in longstanding and systemic biases, we are determined to systematically move towards health equity and justice, and to eradicate inequities in health outcomes and experiences, so that all patients have an equal opportunity to be as healthy as possible.

Here is a list of the posts on this site related to MHQP’s health equity activities:

MHQP Receives BCBSMA Foundation Grant to Explore Asian Patient Experiences

(March 2023)

Through a Special Initiatives grant from the Blue Cross Blue Shield of Massachusetts Foundation (BCBSMAF), MHQP has launched a new project designed to help better understand why Asian patients report worse experiences with primary care than other racial populations. A deeper understanding requires a more nuanced consideration of the

Study Finds Disparities in Telehealth Usage Since the Onset of the Pandemic

(November 2022)

The Department of Population Medicine at the Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Institute, a Harvard Medical School affiliate, has released the results of a research study on telehealth use in the Commonwealth since the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. MHQP supported the effort by collecting and analyzing qualitative interview data

Stepping Out of Silos to Tackle Disparities

(September 2022)

Nearly 30 years ago, a Boston Globe Spotlight article highlighted “the worst hospitals” in Massachusetts based on high mortality rates. In the wake of that article, well before the measurement of healthcare quality was widely practiced and accepted, a forward-thinking group of healthcare, business and community leaders

Employee Spotlight: Natalya Martins

(August 2022)

Natalya Martins, MPH, has a placard with a quote from Indigenous Australian and activist Lilla Wilson hanging in her office:

“If you have come here to help me you are wasting your time, but if you have come because your liberation is bound up with mine, then let us work

Tackling Inequities in Pain Assessment and Management

(August 2022)

Historically marginalized communities are systematically undertreated for pain, and this issue disproportionately impacts Black women. While this fact is well established by research (1), we know very little about the specific barriers that Black women experience when they seek pain care.

To help identify opportunities to close this research gap

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