A Federally Qualified Health Center-led Ethics & Equity Framework & Workflow Checklist: An Invited Commentary in Response to a Relational Public Health Framing of FQHCs During COVID-19.

Cristina Huebner TorresSylvia Baedorf KassisSadath SayeedBarbara E BiererKaren M Emmons

Published in: The Journal of law, medicine & ethics : a journal of the American Society of Law, Medicine & Ethics (2024)

With disparate rates of morbidity and mortality among minoritized communities, COVID-19 illuminated the need for equity-informed practices in public health. Pacia et al posit FQHCs as entities that addressed inequity when others failed. This commentary further situates how FQHCs address the public health crisis of institutional racism and related health inequities every day and presents a FQHC-led Ethics and Equity Framework and Workflow Checklist to guide ethical and equitable engagement with FQHCs.

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public health
global health
coronavirus disease
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primary care
social media
mental health
risk assessment
climate change
respiratory syndrome coronavirus
artificial intelligence