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It’s a Matter of Your Health with Dr. Veita Bland
It’s A Matter Of Your Health, with Dr. Veita Bland is a 30-minute health magazine featuring interviews with physicians, clinicians, and others focused on the latest innovations that will keep you healthy.
It’s a Matter of Your Health with Dr. Veita Bland
Understanding Health Equity
October 18, 2021
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Dr. Veita Bland, MD / Dr. Ruth Gilliam Phillips, MD
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Season 2
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Episode 6
Health equity means that everyone has a fair and just opportunity to be as healthy as possible. This requires removing obstacles to health such as poverty, discrimination, and their consequences, including powerlessness and lack of access to good jobs with fair pay, quality education and housing, safe environments, and health care.
Dr. Ruth Gilliam Phillips, MD the Executive Director of the Community Health Coalition in Durham, North Carolina joins Dr. Veita Bland, MD for a discussion about disparities in health care along with the importance of patient empowerment and advocacy.
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