AAFP Policies on Health Equity Issues

Health Equity Overview

• Advancing Health Equity by Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in Family Medicine (Position Paper)
• Health Equity

Health and Health Care

• Area Health Education Centers
• Migrant Health Care
• Reparative Therapy
• Reproductive and Maternity Health Services
• Rural Health Care, Access to
• Integration of Primary Care and Public Health (Position Paper)
• Patient Discrimination Policy
• Physician Discrimination Policy
• Health Care for All: A Framework for Moving to a Primary Care-Based Health Care System in the United States (Position Paper)
• Health Equity
• Linguistically Appropriate Health Care
• Medically Underserved Policy
• National Minority Health Month
• Parity in Coverage for Mental Health Patients
• Access to Comprehensive Care
  
• Criminalization of the Provision of Medical Care to Undocumented Individuals
• Race-based Medicine
• Striving for Birth Equity
• Striving for Birth Equity: Family Medicine's Role in Overcoming Disparities in Maternal Morbidity and Mortality (Position Paper)
• Care for the Transgender and Gender Nonbinary Patient

Education

• Underrepresented Students, Family Physicians as Role Models for
• Rural Health Care in Medical Education
• Rural Practice: Graduate Medical Education for (Position Paper)
• Discrimination, Family Medicine Residency Graduates
• Medical Schools, Underrepresentation In Medicine
• Medical Schools, Service to Minority, Vulnerable and Underserved Populations
• Urban/Inner-City Training Program in Family Medicine

Neighborhood and Environment

• Discriminatory Policing
• Hate Crimes
• Human Trafficking

Economic Stability

• Homelessness
• Diversity in the Workforce
• Poverty and Health - The Family Medicine Perspective (Position Paper)

Social and Community

• Community and Migrant Health Centers
• Coverage Equity for Drugs, Testing, Procedure, Preventive Services, and Reproductive Technologies
• Sensitivity to Diversity and Cultural Proficiency in AAFP Education
• Cultural Proficiency: The Importance of Cultural Proficiency in Providing Effective Care for Diverse Populations (Position Paper)
• Culturally Proficient, Health Care
• Culturally Sensitive Interpretive Services - AAFP Legislative Stance
• Equality for Same Gender Families
• Coverage Equity for Drugs, Testing, Procedure, Preventive Services, and Reproductive Technologies

AAFP Standards and Practices

• Sensitivity to Diversity and Cultural Proficiency in AAFP Education
• Discrimination in Membership Evaluation
• Fairness in Federal Programs for All U.S. Citizens
• Advancing Health Equity: Principles to Address the Social Determinants of Health in Alternative Payment Models - included in Advancing Health Equity by Addressing the Social Determinants of Health in Family Medicine. 
• Equal Opportunity
• Rural Practice, Keeping Physicians In (Position Paper)
• Implicit Bias
• Institutionalized Racism