Reproductive Health Care as a Human Right
08/08/22 • 33 min
Reproductive health care is a human right. Learn how this connects to health equity and explore the impacts of the overturn of Roe v. Wade with a panel of experts.
Panel:
- Lawrence Gostin, JD—Professor, Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Director, WHO Center on Global Health Law
- Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH—President and CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health
- Krishna Upadhya, MD, MPH—Vice President, Quality Care and Health Equity, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Introduction
- Introduction of the panelists
- Policing and criminalization of reproductive health care
- Abortion access and inequities in health care
- The end of Roe v Wade and a new legal frontier for abortion rights
- The impact of the overturning of Roe and access to abortions
- Substandard medical care being mandated by states
- How the legal system can provide rights & access to health services
- Abortion, reproductive justice, & human rights
- Finding hope in health care justice work
The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct
Reproductive health care is a human right. Learn how this connects to health equity and explore the impacts of the overturn of Roe v. Wade with a panel of experts.
Panel:
- Lawrence Gostin, JD—Professor, Global Health Law at Georgetown University and Director, WHO Center on Global Health Law
- Jamila Perritt, MD, MPH—President and CEO, Physicians for Reproductive Health
- Krishna Upadhya, MD, MPH—Vice President, Quality Care and Health Equity, Planned Parenthood Federation of America
Moderator: Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH—chief health equity officer, senior vice president, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Introduction
- Introduction of the panelists
- Policing and criminalization of reproductive health care
- Abortion access and inequities in health care
- The end of Roe v Wade and a new legal frontier for abortion rights
- The impact of the overturning of Roe and access to abortions
- Substandard medical care being mandated by states
- How the legal system can provide rights & access to health services
- Abortion, reproductive justice, & human rights
- Finding hope in health care justice work
The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct
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The Myth of Meritocracy in Medicine and Health Care
Earn CME credit for listening to this episode of Prioritizing Equity.
Explore the myth of meritocracy, its presence in health care and how physicians can push past it to advance health equity. Daniel Markovits, JD, Melody S. Goodman, PhD, Tomás Diaz, MD and moderator Fernando De Maio, PhD discuss in this Prioritizing Equity panel.
Panel:
- Daniel Markovits, JD—Guido Calabresi Professor of Law and Founding Director, Center for the Study of Private Law, Yale Law School
- Melody S. Goodman, PhD—Associate Dean for Research/Associate Professor of Biostatistics, New York University School of Global Public Health
- Tomás Diaz, MD—Assistant Professor of Emergency Medicine and Medical Educator at Columbia University Medical Center
Moderator: Fernando De Maio, PhD—Director, Health Equity Research and Data Use, Center for Health Equity, American Medical Association
Resources:
- The Meritocracy Trap (book): https://www.themeritocracytrap.com/
- Advancing Health Equity: A Guide to Language, Narrative and Concepts: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/ama-aamc-equity-guide.pdf
- Education from AMA Center for Health Equity: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity
- The AMA’s Organizational Strategic Plan to Embed Racial Justice and Advance Health Equity: https://www.ama-assn.org/system/files/2021-05/ama-equity-strategic-plan.pdf
Originally aired: March 14th, 2021
The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct
Next Episode
Advancing Equity Through Quality and Safety Peer Network
Learn more about the AMA Peer Network: https://ama-assn.org/peer-network
In this week's edition of our Prioritizing Equity series, Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President at the AMA Center for Health Equity speaks with participants from the Peer Network for Advancing Equity through Quality and Safety program on their strategies to start operationalizing equity into their quality and safety operations.
Panel:
- Aderonke Akingbola, MD, MMM, AGAF, CPE Vice President, Medical Affairs, Ochsner Health
- Judy C. Washington, MD, Associate Chief Medical Officer, Atlantic Medical Group
Moderator: Karthik Sivashanker, MD, MPH, Vice President, Equitable Health Systems, AMA Center for Health Equity
Topics discussed in this episode:
- Introduction
- Introduction of the panelists
- Equity at the intersection of health care quality and safety
- Addressing inequities through quality and safety reporting
- Peer Network framework
- Harm event reporting
- Creating psychological safe spaces
- Building teams to improve safety and equity
- The challenges of transforming the health care system
- Harm event case studies
- Successful outcomes from this work
- Lessons for health systems from the Peer Network
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Learn more: https://edhub.ama-assn.org/ama-center-health-equity
The AMA's Digital Code of Conduct: https://www.ama-assn.org/code-conduct
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