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Dr Sharon Phares Lists the Many Factors Physicians Should Consider When Choosing Therapies
Sharon Phares, PhD, MPH, chief scientific officer of the National Pharmaceutical Council, explained the importance of taking multiple factors into consideration when making health care decisions.
Sharon Phares, PhD, MPH, chief scientific officer of the National Pharmaceutical Council, explained the importance of taking other factors in addition to gender into consideration when making health care decisions, marking Women's Health Month.
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How well do health technology assessments currently take into account gender differences? How can it be done better?
Currently, gender differences are not looked at very often only when they are specific to a therapy. So, for instance, if you're looking at a therapy for breast cancer, although men can get breast cancer, they're less likely to. But how they could do it differently is to really look at differences by groups. Do women get impacted the same as men and is the value the same? Similarly, it can be said for other groups, not just men and women, but also people of color, people of different ethnicities, etc, to kind of look at those combinations of gender and racial or cultural identity, as well as some issues around things like socioeconomic status, which can impact the value, so to speak, of a medication for a certain group.
Frameworks for Advancing Health Equity: Urban Health Outreach
May 9th 2024In the series debut episode of "Frameworks for Advancing Health Equity," Mary Sligh, CRNP, and Chelsea Chappars, of Allegheny Health Network, explain how the Urban Health Outreach program aims to improve health equity for individuals experiencing homelessness.
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Tackling Health Inequality: The Power of Education and Experience
April 30th 2024To help celebrate and recognize National Minority Health Month, we are bringing you a special month-long podcast series with our Strategic Alliance Partner, UPMC Health Plan. Welcome to our final episode of this limited series and our conversation with Janine Jelks-Seale, MSPPM, director of health equity at UPMC Health Plan.
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