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The Office of Health Equity is delighted to share some of
our accomplishments over the past fiscal year in championing health equity for
Veterans. Here are a few highlights:
- Solicited and Supported facilities to
participate in the USH VA Priorities Best Practices Consortium by submitting
health equity efforts.
- Responded to the Commission on Care
recommendations in support of health equity.
- Launched new communication tools, including
external website and listserv to raise awareness of health equity.
- Contributed to the Presidential Open Data
Initiative with the public release of hepatitis C virus disparities data.
- Participated in engagement meetings to
further health equity issues for Veterans
- Leveraged online training options with
virtual trainings through the Focus on Health Equity and Action Cyberseminar
series and virtual patient cultural competency training modules
- Authored new manuscripts highlighting best
practices for ending homelessness and improving care for vulnerable Veterans
- Participated in the National Access Stand
Down efforts to reduce Veteran wait times
- Published the comprehensive National Veteran
Health Equity Report
Visit http://www.va.gov/HEALTHEQUITY/docs/OHE_FY16_Accomplishments_12022016.pdf for the complete summary of FY2016
accomplishments.
The
National Veteran Health Equity Report continues to attract attention. The
Office of Health Equity is pleased to announce the latest endorsement of the
report from Darrell G. Kirch, MD, President and Chief Executive Officer of the Association of American Medical Colleges.
Also, the report is now listed on the Rural Health Information Hub (https://www.ruralhealthinfo.org/resources/8218)
and the National Library of Medicine (at National Institute of Health) Health
Services Research (HSR) Information Central website (http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hsrinfo/datasites.html).
According to the HSR website, “HSR Information Central is not an index of all
health services resources on the Web. Rather, it contains selective links
representing a sample of available information. Items are selected for their
quality, authority of authorship, uniqueness, and appropriateness.”
The National Veteran Health Equity Report is designed to
provide basic comparative information on the sociodemographics, utilization
patterns and rates of diagnosed health conditions among groups over which the
VHA Office of Health Equity has responsibility. Visit http://www.va.gov/healthequity/NVHER.asp for
more information on the report and related updates.
Stay tuned for the January Focus on Health Equity and
Action Cyberseminar that will focus on the state of vulnerable Veteran health
care at the VHA.
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OHE released two training modules to assist clinicians,
non-clinicians, Veterans, and stakeholders in understanding the importance of
assessing, and increasing competency, of health equity issues for Veterans.” The
trainings are available on the VA
Talent Management System (TMS) for
VA employees and VHA
TRAIN for both VA employees and the general public.
Please visit http://www.va.gov/HEALTHEQUITY/Tools.asp for
a listing of Veteran related health equity tools.
Dr. Uchenna S. Uchendu,
Chief Officer of the Office of Health Equity, recently participated in a
roundtable panel series exploring real-world efforts to eliminate health
disparities and improve population health outcomes for vulnerable populations.
Dr. Uchendu’s presentation focused on efforts to improve health equity for
Veterans. She was joined by a panel of other eminent voices who discussed
critical health equity issues. The series was co-sponsored by the Westat Center on Health Disparities & Health Equity
Research and the Rockville
Institute. Visit https://www.westat.com/about-us/presentations/webinar/cross-sector-innovations-achieve-health-equity for the video archive of presentation and information on
other exciting presentations.
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