Understanding Health Equity in Value-Based Patient Care

Health equity means all patients have the same opportunity to achieve wellness. Care quality, disease management, and genetic makeup are core parts of patient health. However, stakeholders must also acknowledge that patient health is much more than medical interventions. This is especially true with value-based patient caretaking hold and key concepts such as health equity emerging.

Understanding the different components of health equity is the first step to supporting it in value-based patient care. From there, healthcare professionals can begin to link health equity and health disparities, working to address high-risk patients and the social factors that influence their ability to live their healthiest lives possible.