Health Equity

To achieve equity for patients with type 1 diabetes by piloting innovative approaches in the T1D Exchange Quality Improvement Collaborative.

“The HEAL program is a work in progress that will bring the best of population health science, quality improvement and health equity,” explains Ori Odugbesan, Manager of Quality Improvement and Population Health at the T1D Exchange.

Objectives:

The HEAL Program will contribute to best practices regarding equitable type 1 diabetes care through multiple strategies, including but not limited to:

• Revising or developing new measures for health equity
• Providing advice and feedback on grants
• Piloting new health equity initiatives
• Applying evaluation rigors to make recommendations on equitable policies
• Sharing learning and best practices nationally

Gathering data goes far beyond simply assessing a person’s health and noting their race or ethnicity. Health outcomes are never the result of just one or two variables.

Instead, HEAL is collecting data on details such as safe housing, education level, employment status, literacy, ability to understand medical documents, access to health insurance, access to transportation, access to food, and much more.