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The American Heart Association created an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Editorial Board to advance cardiovascular health equity and address health care disparities by 2024.
The American Heart Association has created an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Editorial Board to advance cardiovascular health equity and address healthcare disparities.
Approximately 2 years ago, the American Heart Association’s (AHA) National Board commissioned volunteer leaders to develop new goals to address health equity and to provide strong science to reduce health care disparities, including consideration of social determinants of health, structural racism, and rural health inequities. This effort resulted in the 2024 Impact Goal,1 which states that “every person deserves the opportunity for a full, healthy life. As champions for health equity, by 2024, the AHA will advance cardiovascular health for all, including identifying and removing barriers to health care access and quality.” One of the 10 commitments stated in the 2024 Impact Goal is to enhance the focus of our AHA scientific journals (https://www.ahajournals.org) on disparities, health equity, antiracism, community-engaged/community-based participatory research, and implementation science.
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Lewis et al. (2022) conducted an editorial in Health equity and disparities. Creation of Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Editorial Board was evaluated. The American Heart Association created an Equity, Diversity, and Inclusion Editorial Board to advance cardiovascular health equity and address health care disparities by 2024.
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