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August 26, 2022
Kameron Matthews, MD, JD, FAAFP, chief health officer of Cityblock Health, and Myechia Minter-Jordan, MD, MBA, president and CEO of CareQuest Institute for Oral Health, offer their perspective on the business case for investing in overall and oral health equity.
"Effectively investing in health equity in a sustainable and meaningful way starts with an understanding that solutions for marginalized communities must be developed with them," the authors write. "We’ve reached an inflection point, with the opportunity and a mandate to do better. Our health care system doesn’t work for everyone because it wasn’t built for everyone. From maternal health to oral health, people of color consistently experience worse health outcomes than their white counterparts."