How Can Institutional Practices Reduce Health Disparities? Part 6

This Harvard Medical School Continuing Education video examines the key question: how can institutional practices reduce health disparities? 

Kevin Tucker, MD, reviews important ways that health care institutions can serve the communities with which they work. Locating outpatient clinics closer to where patients live and hiring health care employees that reflect the community are identified as two strategies for reducing health disparities.  

Dr. Tucker is the vice president of education for Mass General Brigham and an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School. This video is part 6 in the 15-part series: Health Care Disparities.  

This video was peer reviewed by Dr. Martina McGrath, MB, BCh, FRCPI, PGDip Med Ed, Associate Physician, Brigham and Women’s Hospital, Instructor of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, to validate the quality and accuracy of the content.
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