Socially Determined: The Healthcare Executive’s Role in Health Equity

＂While federal regulators and accrediting bodies have championed national health equity initiatives, the COVID-19 pandemic further underscored systemic health disparities and inspired action. Socially Determined: The Healthcare Executive’s Role in Health Equity explores how healthcare and public health organizations continue to work toward equitable, person-centered care. This book provides healthcare executives with an overview of the essential elements of health equity and explains the relationship between value-based care, healthcare quality, and health equity. Its core themes are the crucial role of community investments in improving the economic, social, and environmental realities of marginalized populations and the need for public-private partnerships to tackle issues at scale＂--

Kina L. White, DrPH, MHSA, FACHE, is director of the Office of Community Health Improvement at the Mississippi State Department of Health and adjunct faculty at Belhaven University. Dr. White is ACHE Regent for Mississippi and serves on the board of advisors for the UsAgainstAlzheimer’s Center for Brain Health Equity, the New York University Grossman School of Medicine BOLD Public Health Center of Excellence on Early Detection of Dementia, and the Global Alzheimer’s Platform Foundation Inclusive Research Initiative Advisory Committee. Shawn Rossi, DHA, FACHE, is the vice president of communications and member engagement for the Mississippi Hospital Association. She also serves on the boards of directors for the Mississippi Organ Recovery Agency, the Mississippi Public Health Association, the Mississippi Healthcare Executives, and the University of Mississippi Medical Center School of Health Related Professions Alumni Association, and she is a member of the University of Southern Mississippi’s Community Health Advisory Board. Dr. Rossi was listed by the Mississippi Business Journal as one of their Top 40 Under 40. Karin VanZant, MPA, is the vice president of national social determinants of health and health equity at Clearlink Partners and an adjunct professor at Antioch University. She is a founding member of the national policy coalition Aligning for Health and a planning member of RWJ funded Partnership to Align Social Care. Previously, she led the national strategy for social determinants of health at CareSource and was the co-founder and executive director of Think Tank, Inc., which connects individuals who have personal experience in poverty with leaders working toward solutions.