The Future of Everything Podcast with Alyce Adams: Health Outcomes for Underserved Populations

Alyce Adams, an expert in health equity and policy explains how new approaches in communities and health systems are improving care delivery for traditionally underserved populations.
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As anyone with chronic disease knows, access to health care doesn’t always equate with equitable health care outcomes, says guest Alyce Adams, an expert in innovations in health policy.

Too often, care delivery breaks down along racial and socioeconomic lines. Our focus should be on better outcomes for all people, she says. Adams now develops interventions to help communities and health systems improve care delivery — and health equity — as she tells host Russ Altman in this episode of Stanford Engineering’s The Future of Everything podcast.

 

 

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