For as long as the United States has been a country, the distribution of good health has been unequal. In this special issue, we consider what psychology can do to understand and ameliorate these inequalities. The introduction sets the context for why psychologists are well positioned, well trained, and needed to champion health equity via innovative partnerships and models of care delivery. A guide is provided for engaging and maintaining a health equity lens in advocacy, research, education/training, and practice efforts for psychologists, and readers are invited to apply a health equity lens to reimagine their existing and forthcoming work. More broadly, the special issue brings together a collection of 14 articles across three core themes: (a) integration of care, (b) intersections between social drivers/determinants of health, and (c) intersecting social systems. The articles collectively highlight the need for new conceptual models to guide research, education, and practice, the importance of engaging in transdisciplinary partnerships, and the urgency of collaborating with community members in cross-system alliances to tackle social drivers of health, structural racism, and contextual risks, all of which are fundamental drivers of health inequity. Although psychologists are uniquely positioned to investigate causes of inequality, develop health equity interventions, and advocate for policy changes, our voice and vision have been missing from broader national dialogues around these issues. This issue is poised to provide examples of existing equity work and inspire ALL psychologists to engage for the first time or deepen existing health equity work with renewed vigor and reimagined possibilities. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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心理学家如何帮助实现医疗保健推进创新伙伴关系和医疗服务模式的公平：特刊简介。

只要美国是一个国家，良好健康的分配就一直是不平等的。在本期特刊中，我们考虑了心理学可以做些什么来理解和改善这些不平等现象。引言阐述了为什么心理学家处于有利地位、训练有素，并且需要通过创新的伙伴关系和护理提供模式来支持健康公平。提供了一份指南，用于在心理学家的宣传、研究、教育/培训和实践工作中参与和维护健康公平视角，并邀请读者应用健康公平视角来重新构想他们现有和即将开展的工作。更广泛地说，这期特刊汇集了 14 篇文章，涵盖三个核心主题：(a) 护理整合，(b) 社会驱动因素/健康决定因素之间的交集，(c) 交叉的社会系统。这些文章共同强调了需要新的概念模型来指导研究、教育和实践，参与跨学科伙伴关系的重要性，以及与社区成员在跨系统联盟中合作以解决健康、结构性种族主义的社会驱动因素的紧迫性，和环境风险，所有这些都是健康不公平的根本驱动因素。尽管心理学家在调查不平等的原因、制定健康公平干预措施和倡导政策变革方面具有独特的优势，但在围绕这些问题进行的更广泛的全国对话中却缺少我们的声音和愿景。本期旨在提供现有公平工作的示例，并激励所有心理学家以新的活力和重新想象的可能性首次参与或深化现有的健康公平工作。（PsycInfo 数据库记录 (c) 2023 APA，保留所有权利）。