Presented under YouTube’s Health Equity Incubator (THE-IQ), a program to tackle health equity through information quality, this video series is produced by KFF (Kaiser Family Foundation) with The Loveland Foundation, National Birth Equity Collaborative and Satcher Health Leadership Institute at the Morehouse School of Medicine. Through the voices of the partner organizations, the videos elevate a conversation about health equity and build understanding about the factors that impact health and well-being.

KFF is an endowed, nonprofit organization filling the need for trusted, independent information on national health issues; no affiliation to Kaiser Permanente.

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Samantha Artiga, Vice President and Director, Racial Equity and Health Policy Program, KFF:
Achieving health equity requires ongoing efforts to address historical and ongoing injustices, as well as the elimination of health and healthcare disparities.
I really see our work as uplifting voices and experiences that might otherwise go unheard in policy discussions.

Latoya Hill, Senior Policy Analyst, Racial Equity and Health Policy Program, KFF:
Having high-quality, disaggregated data by race, ethnicity is key to addressing health inequities. You need to be able to identify the disparity in order to address it.

Samantha Artiga:
Data are really the cornerstone of our ability to be able to address disparities and advance health equity. Historically, we've lacked comprehensive, quality data by race and ethnicity, which really limits our ability to get a complete understanding of the experiences of the population and where those disparities exist.

Latoya Hill:
There were anecdotes, so you may have known about an aunt whose child died or someone down the street or in the church who had a negative outcome. But to actually know the, the scope and the data, I don't think was common knowledge 10, 20 years ago.

Samantha Artiga:
So disparities occur across a broad range of dimensions. But when we look specifically at disparities by race and ethnicity, which is a focus of much of the work of our program at KFF, we see in particular that Black, Hispanic, American Indian and Alaskan Native people tend to fare worse compared to the White counterparts across many measures of health and health access.

Latoya Hill:
These data are more than just numbers. We aggregate these numbers and we come up with a rate of this or a percent of that, but each number that contributed to us getting to that statistic really represents a person's story.

Samantha Artiga:
I've personally witnessed within my own family and among family members, them experiencing differential treatment in the healthcare system. So I've seen what this looks like at a personal level, in terms of people receiving different treatment based on different circumstances, like maybe the language that they speak, maybe the provider's perceptions.

Latoya Hill:
There are definitely challenges in trying to have conversations around racism and its role in health and healthcare. There are always going to be questions around, “Well, is it really that? Did you look at this? Did you look at that?” And so trying to show that relationship to be able to then have the data to inform our policies and programs is important.

Samantha Artiga:
Right now is really an important opportunity for work to address disparities and advance equity given the broader attention and focus on these issues, as well as the increased allocation of resources more generally. So I'm hopeful, but I also recognize that it's gonna be a long, challenging road and require a lot of effort across different sectors.

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