Health Equity

• AMA STEPS Forward™ toolkits

  •  Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Health Systems: Find guidance and resources for physicians who are affiliated with large health systems, empowering them to initiate critical conversations surrounding health equity, racial equity, racism, and anti-racism. Recognizing the pressing need to address these complex issues within the healthcare landscape, this toolkit serves as a catalyst for transformative dialogue and action.

  •  Racial and Health Equity: Concrete STEPS for Smaller Practices: The purpose of this toolkit is to provide essential support and resources to physicians working in smaller practices, enabling them to initiate and facilitate crucial conversations surrounding health equity, racial equity, racism, and anti-racism. Recognizing the critical need to address these pressing issues within the healthcare landscape, this toolkit serves as a catalyst for transformative dialogue and action within smaller practice settings.

• AMA Health Equity Education and Resources: The American Medical Association's (AMA) Health Equity webpage serves as an expansive and invaluable repository of articles, resources, and toolkits, offering a wealth of knowledge and support for healthcare professionals and stakeholders committed to advancing health equity.

• California Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity: The CDPH Office of Health Equity webpage serves as a comprehensive and invaluable online platform that offers a wide variety of articles, resources, and toolkits to support health equity efforts throughout the state.

• WHO Health Equity: Find a diverse array of information, fact sheets, resources, databases, and toolkits. As a global leader in public health, the WHO has curated an extensive collection of materials that serve as essential references and tools for individuals, organizations, and policymakers dedicated to improving global health outcomes.

• UC Berkeley Public Health Library Data and Statistics: Recognizing the critical role of data-driven research and analysis, this guide serves as a trusted companion for individuals seeking to explore, analyze, and derive insights from diverse datasets.

• UCLA Center for Health Policy Research – California Health Interview Survey (CHIS): AskCHIS™ and AskCHIS™ Neighborhood Edition represent cutting-edge health data tools designed to provide users with seamless access to comprehensive and authoritative health statistics pertaining to California's diverse population. These user-friendly tools harness the wealth of information collected through The California Health Interview Survey (CHIS), which stands as the largest state health survey in the United States, capturing insights from approximately 20,000 Californians through annual interviews.

In alignment with its commitment to inform and educate physicians on topics important to health equity, the American Medical Association (AMA) announced in fall 2021 a series of CME and educational activities aimed at addressing the root causes of inequities, including racism and other structural determinants of health. The content – featured on the AMA Ed Hub™ Health Equity Education Center and curated by the AMA’s Center for Health Equity – equips physicians and other learners with core health equity concepts needed to support them as they continue to take action and confront health injustice. Topics include the Prioritizing Equity CME video series: 

• Prioritizing Equity — The Root Cause: An overview of health equity perspectives from advocates whose work is driven by the mission to address the root cause of health inequity and the social determinants of health. 

• Prioritizing Equity - Accomplices and Co-Conspirators: How physicians can get actively involved in the fight for racial justice and equity. 

• Prioritizing Equity - Research and Data for Health Equity: Distinguish health equity data and the challenges of quantifying health inequities and the structural and social determinants of health. 

• Prioritizing Equity — Trustworthiness & Vaccines: A review of misinformation, trustworthiness, and strategies to handle vaccine hesitancy among patients and health care professionals. 

• Prioritizing Equity — Mental Health and COVID-19: Covering COVID-19’s immediate and long-term effects on the mental health of minoritized and marginalized communities. 

• The Past and Future of East Bay Place-Based Health Equity (article) by Terry Hill, MD, FACP
• Asian Americans Advancing Justice – Asian Law Caucus
• Asian Americans/Pacific Islanders in Philanthropy
• Bay Area Regional Health Inequities Initiative
  • BARHII Applying Social Determinants of Health Indicator Data for Advancing Health Equity
  • BARHII Health Equity and Community Engagement Report
  • BARHII Health Equity and Community Engagement Report — Alameda County
• California Medical Association Mission Statement Updated to Include Health Equity
• Compassion in Oakland: Empowering the AAPI Community of Oakland
• In Time of COVID, Soft Skills Help Address Years of Distrust
• Kaiser Northern California Division of Research Equity in Health
• Permanente Medicine Fact Sheet on Equity, Inclusion and Diversity
• Sutter Institute for Advancing Health Equity
  • Setting Aside Historic Healthcare Distrust to Get COVID-19 Vaccine
• Unnatural Causes: Is Inequity Making Us Sick?

• Contra Costa County Board of Supervisors Declares Racism a Public Health Crisis
• President Biden Announces Additional Actions to Respond to Anti-Asian Violence, Xenophobia, and Bias
• Senate Oks Bill to Fight Hate Crimes Against Asian Americans

This series features distinguished speakers Dr. Manchanda and Dr. Iton who are renowned experts in their respective fields as well as three panel discussions. These sessions were recorded between May and June 2021.

• California Department of Managed Health Care Health Equity and Quality Committee 

• California Department of Public Health Office of Health Equity Advisory Committee 

• Alameda County Measure A Citizen Oversight Committee 

• Contra Costa County Measure X Community Advisory Board 

• City of Berkeley Community Health Commission

• Asian Mental Health Collective (AMHC)
• Addressing Systemic Racism Through Clinical Preventive Service: Recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force
• AMA Health Equity Strategic Plan
• American College of Surgeons Commentary: The prescription America needs right now is more than a vaccine
• Declare Racism a Public Health Emergency
• Does Race Belong in the First Line of the Patient History?
• Equitable Health Care Requires Inclusive Language
• Preserving Vision in the COVID-19 Pandemic: Focus on Health Equity
• Racial Bias in Pulse Oximetry Measurements
• Racial Disparities in the Use of Surgical Procedures in the US
• Racial and Ethnic Health Disparities Related to COVID‑19
• Racial Inequity in Cancer Trials
• Recalibrating the Use of Race in Medical Research
• Socioeconomic, Racial and Ethnic Differences in Patient Experience of Clinician Empathy
• Stop AAPI Hate
• A Systemic Approach for Detecting Disparities in Surgical Access

The Alameda Contra-Costa Medical Association strongly believes that during times of heightened racial, ethnic, religious, and political tensions, it is incumbent upon us, as health care leaders, to take the necessary steps to strive for inclusiveness and provide the highest quality of care to our patients. Many patients, and fellow physicians alike, have experienced discrimination and discomfort due to the lack of awareness, empathy, and cultural humility while in the health care setting. We believe that physicians across Alameda and Contra Costa counties be aware of their implicit biases and prejudices that can affect the quality of care they provide to their patients and relationships with their colleagues.  We encourage our members to seek out educational resources, including trainings, webinars, and online articles that explain how to identify one’s biases, and the impact it can have on those around them. 

• Harvard implicit bias test
• Health Disparities Defined