EPISODE 16- Understanding Health Equity

This episode of Making Medicine features Dr. Jerome Adams, Executive Director of Health Equity Initiatives at Purdue University and the 20th Surgeon General of the United States on the importance of health equity and accessible care.

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07.19.2022

Everyone wants to make healthy choices. But we don’t always have an opportunity to make healthy choices.

In today’s episode, we speak with Dr. Jerome Adams, Executive Director of Health Equity Initiatives at Purdue University and the 20th Surgeon General of the United States, about the need for proactive accessible health care, the economic burden  of inaccessible healthcare, and why people need to know you care, before they care about what you know

Join us as we discuss:

• The difference between health equity and equality
• Integrative health care
• The economic cost of inaccessible healthcare

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