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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 University of Maryland’s Office of Policy and Planning in collaboration with urban and rural community partners, planned and implemented a model for community-academic engagement (CAE) in partnered research and programs. The model addressed health disparities, cancer and tobacco-related diseases, and public trust in research. Environments have flourished that resulted in bidirectional…April 2017Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- The proposal for a global health treaty aimed at health equity, the Framework Convention on Global Health, raises the fundamental question of whether we can achieve true health equity, globally and domestically, and if not, how close we can come. Considerable knowledge currently exists about the measures required to, at the least, greatly improve health equity. Why, then, do immense inequities…February 2017Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Systemic Determinants
- 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
- Public health depends on a sustained, constructive engagement between public health and political systems. This study outlines the importance of such engagement, and suggests ground rules that can help bridge the current divide. (author abstract) #P4HEwebinarMarch2024August 2016Policy and Practice
- Health care organizations have increasingly acknowledged the presence of health care disparities across race/ethnicity and socioeconomic status, but significantly fewer have made health equity for diverse patients a true priority. Lack of financial incentives is a major barrier to achieving health equity. To create a business case for equity, governmental and private payors can: 1) Require health…February 2016Health Reform, Services & Programs
- 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
- 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
- Meaningful improvements in health require modifying the social determinants of health. As policies are often underlying causes of the living conditions that shape health, policy change becomes a health goal.This focus on policy has led to increasing interest in expanding the focus of community-based participatory research (CBPR) to change not only communities but also policies. To best realize…January 2014Policy and Practice, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Institutional review boards (IRBs) function to regulate research for the protection of human participants. We share lessons learned from the development of an intertribal IRB in the Rocky Mountain/Great Plains Tribal region of the United States. We describe the process through which a consortium of Tribes collaboratively developed an intertribal board to promote community-level protection and…December 2013Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
- At its inception in 1946, the World Health Organization (WHO) proclaimed that the “enjoyment of the highest attainable standard of health is one of the fundamental rights of every human being.”(p100) Yet, that noble goal remains disturbingly out of reach for far too many; glaring inequities continue to riddle the public health landscape. Volumes of research have probed the roots of disparities,…April 2010Services & Programs
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