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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 news that US $12.7 million in donor funds had been embezzled from Uganda’s Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) hit the headlines in many donor capitals in late 2012, prompting serious questions about Uganda’s commitment to fight corruption. The stolen donor funds were earmarked as crucial support for rebuilding northern Uganda, ravaged by a 20-year war, and Karamoja, Uganda’s poorest region.…October 2013Policy and Practice
- The Toolkit for Community Conversations About Mental Health is designed to help individuals and organizations who want to organize community conversations achieve three potential objectives:Get others talking about mental health to break down misperceptions and promote recovery and healthy communities.Find innovative community-based solutions to mental health needs, with a focus on helping young…July 2013Mental/Behavioral Health, Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- The Foreign Medical Teams (FMT) Working Group under the auspices of the Global Health Cluster and the WHO commissioned this document. It introduces a simple classification, minimums standards and a registration form for FMTs that may provide surgical and trauma care arriving within the aftermath of a sudden onset disaster (SOD). These can serve as tools to improve the coordination of the foreign…April 2013Policy and Practice
- This chapter examines ways that outsiders, especially in international settings of the ‘south,’ can play a more creative catalytic role within an asset based-approach. It is a personal reflection drawn from years of first-hand practical experience. What works, what doesn’t, what are outstanding issues and questions? They are organised around a number of lessons learned, propositions, examples,…October 2012Environmental/Community Health
- A Decade of Advocacy is a case study of the Strategic Alliance, a network of 15 California-based organizations that came together to promote health food and activity environments. This document provides a roadmap for effective collaboration and highlights the impact a group of organizations can have when working tougher to effect change. The document answers a series of critical questions,…April 2012Chronic Disease, Advocacy, Environmental/Community Health
- This report explores why resources are not reaching those who need it most and why progress is slow, uneven, and unjust. Among the reasons mentioned in the report: political priorities lead governments to favor other sectors, improve places already served, or exclude poor and marginalized groups. Furthermore, aid is not well-coordinated, is only loosely targeted according to need, and its…November 2011Access
- This 3rd edition of Guidelines for medicine donations has been developed by the World Health Organization (WHO) in cooperation with major international agencies active in humanitarian relief and development assistance. The guidelines are intended to improve the quality of medicine donations in international development assistance and emergency aid. Good medicine donation practice is of interest…January 2011Policy and Practice
- The WHO Global Code of Practice on the International Recruitment of Health Personnel, approved by Member States in the Sixty-third World Health Assembly Resolution WHA63.16, is intended to be a core component of bilateral, national, regional and global responses to the challenges of health personnel migration and health systems strengthening, The objectives of the Code are: to establish and…May 2010Policy and Practice
- 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
- This paper focuses on the practice of using mapping for community-driven policy advocacy activities. It describes the relationship between mapping and policy advocacy, with a focus on how mapping is being used to advocate for policy and systems changes that reduce health inequities, and highlights best practices in the use of mapping for policy advocacy drawn from communities across the country…June 2009Advocacy, Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions
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