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YouTube, KFF Promote Health Equity Through Patient Education

The health equity program will help organizations create a series of patient education videos to address health equity in mental health, maternal health, and the healthcare sector.

This initiative comes as an effort to explore the lack of health information and patient education as a determinant of health.

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By Sarai Rodriguez

- In partnership with the Kaiser Family Foundation (KFF), YouTube has launched The-IQ – tackling health equity through Information Quality, a patient education video series scaling communication messages around health equity.

This initiative comes as an effort to explore the lack of health information and patient education as a determinant of health.

“For many years, doctors, nurses, and public health professionals have studied a wide range of non-medical factors that can impact people’s health,” Garth Graham, MD, director, and head of Youtube Health, wrote in a blog post announcing the program. “These are called social determinants of health, and they can include a variety of factors like access to housing, food security, education, and income.”