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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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- Over 600,000 people are released from state and federal prisons every year.[1] They reenter their communities with a set of complex needs and challenging vulnerabilities, including chronic physical and behavioral health conditions, unstable housing, and impediments to finding and retaining quality jobs. Many struggle to reintegrate and a large share are rearrested or reincarcerated within a few…March 2018Criminal History, Services & Programs
- The formation of hospital-community partnerships to improve health and well-being is becoming widespread across the United States, with many hospitals taking a lead role in initiating and fostering these partnerships. This collaborative approach is effective because many different community organizations are addressing similar issues and serving the same populations. Collaboration creates an…July 2017Policy and Practice
- Improvements in health-care quality can contribute to healthier populations. However, many global and national health strategies are not sufficiently considering the issues of measuring and improving health-care quality in low-resource settings. The barriers to delivering high-quality care are often similar across different health systems. However, the extent and mechanisms through which these…November 2016Policy and Practice
- Homelessness can be surprisingly costly for taxpayers. Fortunately, socially-responsible, cost effective solutions exist. For many city officials, community leaders, and even direct service providers, it often seems that placing homeless people in shelters is the most inexpensive way to meet the basic needs of people experiencing homelessness; some may even believe that shelters are an ideal…April 2016Housing Discrimination
- In May 2014, the Sixty-seventh World Health Assembly adopted resolution WHA67.24 on Follow-up of the Recife Political Declaration on Human Resources for Health: renewed commitments towards universal health coverage. In paragraph 4(2) of that resolution, Member States requested the Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) to develop and submit a new global strategy for human…January 2016Policy and Practice
- In an op-ed piece in the New York Times on Wednesday, columnist Thomas Edsall opened with a pair of provocative questions: If its goal is to move up the ladder, where should a poor family live? Should federal dollars go toward affordable housing within high-poverty neighborhoods, or should subsidies be used to move residents of impoverished communities into more upscale—and more resistant—…August 2015Housing Discrimination, Physical Environment, Systemic Determinants
- Justice as fair and equal treatment for all is one of the core visions for health professional education to reduce racial and economic health disparities in bioethics, nursing and medicine. However, the current reality of deeply entrenched structural inequities across race, class, gender, and social privilege make it a challenge for students to become aware of practical health equity solutions.…August 2015Policy and Practice
- For the poorest people, moving out of poverty can be an enormous challenge. But continuing to stay out of poverty for the rest of their lives is a much greater and for some, impossible, task. Many people rise above the poverty line only to tumble back beneath it. This report demonstrates that escaping from poverty is not a one-way street – many families slide back below the poverty line because…March 2014Policy and Practice
- The release of the Institute of Medicine’s reports Unequal Treatment: Confronting Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Health and Crossing the Quality Chasm: A New Health System for the 21st Century over a decade ago led to numerous efforts in programs, practice, and research to improve health equity and health care quality. The pediatric community has been in the forefront of this effort providing “…March 2014Policy and Practice
- The world will be short of 12.9 million healthcare workers by 2035; today, that figure stands at 7.2 million. A World Health Organization (WHO) report released today warns that the findings - if not addressed now - will have serious implications for the health of billions of people across all regions of the world. (author introduction)November 2013Policy and Practice
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