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The Partners for Advancing Health Equity (P4HE) Resource Library is a virtual portal containing action-oriented health equity research, practice, and policies. The library aims to increase equity in health by offering free access to field-tested, evidence-informed and evidence-based programs strategies and high-quality research.
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- The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated a need to strengthen the US public health system by shifting toward much greater community engagement and leadership. In November and December 2023, we conducted separate online surveys of community-based organizations and large metropolitan health departments to identify barriers and opportunities for building a public health system with strong community…June 2024Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Women comprise more than half of the United States population, and yet women are less likely to have insurance and more likely to experience adverse health outcomes. The National Women's Health Network is a 501c3 not for profit that represents the health interests of these women across the life continuum. We maintain an intersectional focus on sexual and reproductive health, maternal health and…January 2024Maternal/Child Health, Policy & Law, Aging and Life Course
- Solving today's complex health and social issues effectively and equitably is beyond the purview of any one agency, organization, or discipline. Working cross-sectorally represents a key opportunity for communities to create significant, sustainable improvements in health and equity outcomes. Prevention Institute's collaboration tools emerged from experience working in health coalitions and…January 2024Interventions
- The purpose of this toolkit is to help state and territorial health agencies (S/THAs) build and sustain partnerships with non-traditional, non-public health sectors. It focuses on how S/THAs can use Healthy People 2030 to motivate multisector collaboration, improve health outcomes, and advance health equity. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarMarch2024January 2024Interventions
- Community engagement can harness the skills and talents of a community's most important resource: its people. Involving community members in health initiatives can foster connectedness and trust, improve assessment efforts, and build the capacity of individuals to positively affect their community. Additionally, the engagement can enhance the effectiveness of proposed strategies and increase the…January 2024Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Key facts:Human rights are universal rights of all human beings, regardless of race, colour, sex, language, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, property, birth or other status.The right to health and other health-related human rights are legally binding commitments enshrined in international human rights instruments. WHO’s Constitution also recognizes the right to…December 2023Policy and Practice, Systemic Determinants
- To use evidence on addressing racism in social care intervention research to create a framework for advancing health equity for all populations with marginalized social identities (e.g., race, gender, and sexual orientation). Such groups have disproportionate social needs (e.g., food insecurity) and negative social determinants of health (SDOH; e.g., poverty). We recommend how the Agency for…November 2023Social Environment, Racism
- Takeaways: Longstanding systemic and institutional policies and practices make leading health equity work a challenge in most communities. Organizational structures, where hierarchical and power dynamics are often at play, may make it difficult to have transparent and effective conversations about diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI). Over the last several years, state lawmakers and governors…November 2023Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Policy & Law, Systemic Determinants
- Strategies such as diversifying the public health workforce; building capacity related to diversity, equity, inclusion, and belonging; and conducting research on oppression are necessary but insufficient to improving health in communities that have been marginalized by systems of oppression. Working toward health and racial equity requires changing the structural drivers of health. Public health…October 2023Systemic Determinants
- Effecting policy change is a key strategy in tackling wider determinants of health. In England, public health sits within Local Authorities (LAs) and responsibility for ensuring health is considered across directorates increasingly falls to public health practitioners. While international professional standards expect competence in understanding policy processes, the advocacy role has been under-…September 2023Advocacy
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