Stephen Neeleman is the founder and vice president of HealthEquity. Steve founded HealthEquity in 2002, with the vision of repairing the fractured relationship between patients and their doctors and helping more people obtain quality health insurance by reintroducing consumerism into healthcare. It is an American financial technology and business services company designated as a trustee for non-bank health savings by the IRS. This designation allows HealthEquity to be the custodian of health savings accounts, regardless of the financial institution where the funds are deposited.
The CDC Office of Minority Health was established under the direction of Dr. This is because there are inherent biomedical differences in health between populations; but health is also determined by socioeconomic factors and the differences in health outcomes caused by these modifiable factors are unacceptable. The advancement of statistical methods and psychometric testing increased researchers' confidence in the use of subjective (patient-reported) health indicators. Recently, several theoretical frameworks have been proposed to facilitate research on causal pathways between the initial social determinants of health (for example, the United States led the development of national strategies to improve and monitor the progress of health equity).
The period 1900-1965 provided a critical theoretical and methodological basis for this latest development of health equity studies. The growth of studies on health equity was initially slow, with far fewer than 100 relevant publications each year. The passage of the Inflation Reduction Act is a time to celebrate investments in climate change, and health care needs alone are historic. The important recognition of health disparities began nearly two decades ago with two reports by the Surgeon General published in the early 2000s documenting disparities in tobacco use and access to mental health care by race and ethnic group.
However, the lack of a specific subdiscipline and relevant research methods restricted the growth of health equity studies. Equity in health is a multidimensional concept that has been considered internationally as an essential element for the development of health systems. The disparate impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, continuing incidents of police brutality, and the recent increase in hate crime in Asia have led the media and the public to pay greater attention to disparities in health and health care. While there is currently no consensus in research on the magnitude of the relative contributions of each of these factors to health, studies suggest that health behaviors and social and economic factors, often referred to as social determinants of health, are the main drivers of health outcomes and that social and economic factors shape people's health behaviors.
Both health systems and other social service systems were examined to determine their role in addressing disparities in access to health care. Epidemiology considered that these populations were highly susceptible to infectious diseases and, if not properly managed, could impose serious health risks on society as a whole. Inequalities in access and utilization of health and the utilization of health care for lesbians, gays, bisexuals and transgender (LGBT) people in Wisconsin.
