8. A Beginner's Guide to Health Equity: What is it really? And why does it matter for patients.

Josh Liao, MD, has committed his career to improving health care payment and delivery. He works on this mission in several ways, including local system change, scholarship and evaluation, and policy. Health equity is a policy area he passionately advocates for. In this episode, Dr. Liao shares the baseline for what health equity is, why it matters, and how health systems and policy experts need to create new systems in order to make a more equitable care delivery system for all patients. Think of this episode as an intermediate look at health equity. Not quite a 101 course, but certainly not a 400-level one either.