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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 purpose of this report is to establish the Evidence Agenda described in EO 14075 and to provide a roadmap for federal agencies as they work to create their own data-driven and measurable SOGI Data Action Plans to help assess, improve, and monitor the health and well-being of LGBTQI+ people over time.
    January 2023
    Policy & Law
  • Self-care is a broad-based concept and can encompass numerous actions that are intended to empower the individual to enhance their own health. Self-management approaches are one component of self-care. Given the nature of the medical abortion process, it is possible for women to manage the process by themselves in whole or part. While individuals may conduct some or all elements related to the…
    January 2023
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Reproductive Justice
  • SisterSong is a Southern based, national membership organization; our purpose is to build an effective network of individuals and organizations to improve institutional policies and systems that impact the reproductive lives of marginalized communities. SisterSong defines Reproductive Justice as the human right to maintain personal bodily autonomy, have children, not have children, and parent the…
    January 2023
    Reproductive Justice, Racism
  • The CMS Measure Inventory Tool (CMIT) is the repository of record for information about the measures which CMS uses to promote healthcare quality and quality improvement. For more information, the CMIT User Guide contains details concerning the use of the system. (website description) 
    January 2023
    Services & Programs
  • As we emerge from the COVID-19 pandemic, with its waves of isolation, disconnection, and loss, the Coalition’s mission becomes critical – even now more than ever – in grounding ourselves in meaningful connection, resiliency, and belonging. The Coalition advocates for a comprehensive policy agenda that focuses on public awareness, social services, health services, innovation, and research. An…
    January 2023
    Interventions, Social/Structural Determinants
  • From examining a neighborhood’s food environment to collaborating with policymakers to use geospatial mapping, the Johns Hopkins Center for a Livable Future explores the causes of food insecurity, inequity and poor access on the ability of a community to meet its food needs. By directing resources to areas with significant needs, we work with communities and policymakers to use data and stories…
    January 2023
    Services & Programs
  • Unhealthy eating and physical inactivity are leading causes of death in the U.S. Unhealthy diet contributes to approximately 678,000 deaths each year in the U.S., due to nutrition- and obesity-related diseases, such as heart disease, cancer, and type 2 diabetes.1 In the last 30 years, obesity rates have doubled in adults, tripled in children, and quadrupled in adolescents. (author abstract)#…
    January 2023
    Diabetes, Heart disease, Obesity
  • Looking Around The Corner: (Re)Imagining Power For A Healthy and Just California is a forward-looking project to envision what we can collectively achieve if we invest in movements. Distilled from the wisdom of the field, the report offers a blueprint for where to invest over the next 10 years as activists, organizations, and funders collectively steer towards creating a different future.…
    January 2023
    Advocacy, Systemic Determinants
  • In January 2023, NMAC launched its Coalition For Justice and Equality Across Movements as an urgent need to extend our advocacy efforts beyond the HIV movement. By leading this unique group of policy leaders from national advocacy organizations, the Coalition will strategically advance a collaborative and intersectional legislative agenda that represents our nation’s most vulnerable communities.…
    January 2023
    Advocacy
  • Medical-Legal Partnerships (MLPs) allow legal aid and healthcare workers to identify patients whose medical maladies might also be tied to civil legal issues. MLPs can help legal aid providers reach clients who would not normally connect with legal aid. An individual’s legal problems may exacerbate a patient’s medical condition.  Addressing a patient’s legal issues can improve their…
    January 2023
    Environmental/Community Health
  • Detailing Action Kits contain clinical tools, resources for providers and patient education materials, promoting evidence-based best practices and chronic disease management. These materials are available for health care providers and their practices to help improve patient care related to key public health challenges. Clinical topics have been chosen largely because of their anticipated impact…
    January 2023
    Services & Programs
  • Since 2015, the AAMC has produced an annual series of Community Engagement Toolkits in collaboration with our members and their communities. These toolkits provide unvarnished community perspectives on crucial issues and views about how our members can be better partners. The AAMC Collaborative for Health Equity: Act, Research, Generate Evidence (CHARGE) — the AAMC’s national collaborative…
    January 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • We will only achieve health equity when the drivers of health—quality affordable housing, equitable economic opportunities, climate-resilience infrastructure, and more—are available in all communities. Health institutions can harness assets such as financial resources, land, expertise, and relationships to strengthen community investment partnerships to create these conditions. This page provides…
    January 2023
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Maternal health disparities have many causes, but disparate social conditions and a lack of prenatal care or substandard maternal care are often key factors. Community-based maternal care models can help to narrow the disparities in maternal health outcomes by providing expanded prenatal, childbirth and postpartum support that is respectful and culturally relevant to at-risk women. These models…
    January 2023
    Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
  • This website provides an overview of the Deloitte Health Equity Institute, sharing its mission in advancing health equity and positively impacting others. It also shares information on the organization's collaborations, data, insights and playbooks, news, and leadership. #P4HEwebinarMay2023
    January 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • Systems within communities—including medical care, public health, housing, education, transportation, justice, and human services—directly influence the health and well-being of community members. These systems often operate independently from each other, resulting in inefficient allocation of resources, lack or duplication of services, and poor service quality. These effects hamper systems'…
    January 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • There is increasing evidence that civic participation - from voting to volunteering - is a social driver of health. The National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine's Roundtable on Population Health Improvement convened a workshop to explore the links between civics and health; between measures of civic engagement and quantitative and qualitative measures of health equity; and the…
    January 2023
    Policy and Practice
  • From scientific studies to firsthand experiences, here are this year's top 5 stories that shine a light on health disparities in America, ranked in order of unique page views. 1. Understanding 'Black fatigue' – and how to overcome it Living with racism is exhausting and a health risk, but you can find ways to protect yourself and others. 2. The legacy of Dr. Daniel Hale…
    December 2022
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • Today, there is no questioning the prevalence of media in day-to-day life. People in the United States spend an average of 4.5 hours a day watching some form of entertainment media. Lasting solutions to health equity require buy-in from a range of individuals and communities, including those who are not typically engaged in educational or movement-building efforts. The broad-reaching scope of…
    December 2022
    Communication
  • This press release discusses Ghana's institution of new digital technology, such as tablets, to aid the capture of immunization data as well as the digitization of the country's health system.
    December 2022
    COVID-19/Coronavirus, Global Health
  • The past year was an important milestone in the movement to embed evidence in public policy and decision making. The White House declared 2022 the “Year of Evidence for Action,” which spurred a series of convenings and collaborative learning opportunities for using research to make people healthier, safer, and more prosperous. For the final episode of 2022, Mathematica’s On the Evidence podcast…
    December 2022
    Climate Change
  • The public health field experienced a collective "moment" in 2020, declaring racism a public health crisis in cities, counties, and states across the country. However, since then, too many have slipped back to "business as usual." The new report Centering Racial Justice to Strengthen the Public Health Ecosystem: Lessons from COVID-19 from Prevention Institute and Big Cities Health Coalition calls…
    December 2022
    Advocacy
  • The way a society treats people who give birth says a lot about that society. Tragically, the gender- and race-based biases in American society are evident in health outcomes surrounding pregnancy, childbirth, and postpartum recovery.Our country is in the midst of a maternal health crisis. The United States has the highest maternal mortality rate in the developed world and 60 percent of those…
    December 2022
    Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
  • COVID-19 exposed more than health inequities; it also showed us the importance of digital equity, defined by the National Digital Inclusion Alliance as “a condition in which all individuals and communities have the information technology capacity needed for full participation in our society, democracy, and economy.” As Americans and people around the world engage with digital tools and learning…
    December 2022
    Policy and Practice
  • For many non-profits in the arts and culture sector, the past two years have been intensely transformative in terms of navigating the pandemic, keeping their doors open, supporting artists when programming was shuttered and serving the community. At the Ashé Cultural Arts Center (ACAC) in New Orleans, the challenges were no different. However, true to its mission to use arts and culture to…
    December 2022
    Services & Programs

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