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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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- In this guide, we explore ways to help data scientists, researchers, and data communicators take a more purposeful DEI approach to their work. To do so, we conducted more than a dozen interviews with nearly 20 people about their experiences and approaches to being more inclusive with their data exploration, analysis, and communication. Our interviewees included data journalists in major media…June 2021Policy and Practice
- The Affordable Care Act (ACA) helped to significantly reduce U.S. racial and ethnic disparities in health insurance coverage and to improve access to care, especially in states that expanded eligibility for their Medicaid programs. But, after 2016, coverage gains stalled and slightly eroded. Combined with job and income losses stemming from COVID-19, this interruption in progress has left many…June 2021Policy and Practice
- Mounting real-world evidence shows universal screening for health-related social needs in routine clinical care offers a standardized way for health care providers to identify needs, tailor care, and help patients resolve these needs with referrals to community resources. Yet screening for patients’ social needs can seem like a daunting task for clinical providers. One strategy for providers is…June 2021Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Social Environment
- Food and agricultural policies shape what types of food are produced and their movement through the food supply chain at the global, regional, and local levels. Well-functioning, ideal food supply chains provide sufficient safe, nutritious food for everyone around the world. This chapter discusses the many different types of food supply policies relevant to diets and nutrition, as well as the…June 2021Services & Programs
- Immigration has been historically and contemporarily racialized in the United States. Although each immigrant group has unique histories, current patterns, and specific experiences, racialized immigrant groups such as Latino, Asian, and Arab immigrants all experience health inequities that are not solely due to nativity or years of residence but also influenced by conditional citizenship and…June 2021Health Reform, Racism
- Childhood poverty is associated with worse health outcomes, including poor physical and cognitive development, and can adversely influence social and health outcomes in later life. While there is increasing interest in policies to address childhood poverty, limited research exists on whether current U.S. poverty alleviation policies, including the largest such program, the Earned Income Tax…June 2021Services & Programs
- Health care is at a junction, a point where artificial intelligence tools are being introduced to all areas of the space. This introduction comes with great expectations: AI has the potential to greatly improve existing technologies, sharpen personalized medicines, and, with an influx of big data, benefit historically underserved populations.But in order to do those things, the health care…June 2021Health Reform
- The problem: untreated maternal mental health means worse health outcomes for moms and babies. The mental health of mothers in the United States is in crisis. This harms not only their own health, but also that of their infants. Maternal mental health (MMH) conditions are relatively common, affecting one in five women.1 When left undiagnosed and untreated, MMH conditions can lead to long-term…June 2021Maternal Morbidity and Mortality
- Transgenerational trauma is a potential barrier to achieving a healthy and holistic patient-physician relationship, particularly for Black Americans. Examination of deeply rooted historical injustices that Black patients suffer in health care and how they undermine trust can help clarify connections between historical trauma, distrust, and health outcomes. Furthering clinicians’ understanding of…June 2021Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
- Lawmakers in at least 35 states have introduced more than 250 bills that aim to curb the rights of LGBTQ people, with more than 100 bills specifically targeting transgender people in what advocacy groups have called the worst year for anti-LGBTQ legislation in recent history.A majority of the measures impact transgender youth, a population that is already disproportionately impacted by mental…May 2021Policy & Law, Social/Structural Determinants, Transphobia
- The parents of a 7-year-old girl call their clinic with concerns about the health of their daughter. A telehealth visit is scheduled. On the day of the appointment, her parents, who speak and read a language other than English, are unable to navigate the patient portal account to join the virtual visit. She subsequently misses the appointment and experiences months with declining health and…May 2021Communication
- Health equity is the fair and just opportunity for every individual to achieve their full potential in all aspects of health and well-being. The combination of the COVID-19 pandemic and last summer’s demonstrations over social injustice helped to shed critical light on health inequities. Our recent paper on health equity describes the impact systemic racism has on health and actions that leaders…May 2021Services & Programs, Systemic Determinants
- In the 1980s, a set of historical city maps resurfaced to reveal a hidden facet of our neighborhoods—the redlined status. As it turns out, the implementation of these maps saved the housing sector and bolstered prosperity for some demographic groups but increased disparities in homeownership, wealth, and health for others. The structural inequalities set in place by federal policies over 80 years…May 2021Housing Discrimination, Physical Environment, Systemic Determinants
- Housing First has been thoroughly studied as an effective approach to ending people’s homelessness. System leaders, advocates, policymakers, and others are encouraged to review the following visualization, which demonstrates the overwhelming volume of research and data supporting Housing First. It includes the most significant domestic studies, international studies, and literature reviews on the…May 2021Housing Discrimination, Healthy Housing
- The article, COVID-19 Medical Vulnerability Indicators: Predictive Local Data Model for Equity in Public Health Decision-Making (2021), is an important contribution to identifying and prioritizing the needs of Los Angeles’ public healthcare in responding to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. The authors developed a framework for, in effect, disaggregating a diverse population’s complex vulnerabilities…May 2021Policy and Practice
- We have witnessed multiple digital health inequities in the past year, from disparities in access to health care video visits to challenges in scheduling COVID-19 vaccination online. It is clear that we need digital health transformation that is focused on reducing these gaps. During the past 18 months, we—health care researchers with expertise in health technology and implementation science—…May 2021Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Policy and Practice
- Accessing mental health care is challenging for many Americans. And as COVID-19 has exposed inequities in the nation’s health system, mental health care is among the fault lines that the pandemic has laid bare.The AMA established the Behavioral Health Integration (BHI) Collaborative with seven other leading physician organizations to help overcome persistent obstacles to integrating behavioral…May 2021Mental/Behavioral Health
- Launched in partnership with The Colorado Health Foundation in late 2017, The Colorado Collaborative for Reproductive Health Equity (Collaborative) is a unique and innovative model that has incubated several reproductive health and rights projects. Guided by a vision for reproductive health equity, The Collaborative engages funders, clinicians, researchers, community organizations and grassroots…May 2021Reproductive/Sexual Health, Policy and Practice
- Contact tracing is an important public health tool for containing the spread of disease, including COVID-19. But contact tracers are effective only if they can persuade people to answer questions about recent whereabouts and who else might have been exposed. Contact tracers are more likely to be successful in their outreach if they and the people they are contacting have similar backgrounds.…May 2021COVID-19/Coronavirus
- This video, part of the AAMC Center for Health Justice Principles of Trustworthiness, underscores reasons and causes for mistrust of the health care system and offers suggested actions that organizations of all kinds can take to demonstrate they are trustworthy. To learn more about the Principles of Trustworthiness, visit aamc.org/trustworthiness (author introduction)May 2021Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- This video, part of the AAMC Center for Health Justice Principles of Trustworthiness, underscores reasons and causes for mistrust of the health care system and offers suggested actions that organizations of all kinds can take to demonstrate they are trustworthy. To learn more about the Principles of Trustworthiness, visit aamc.org/trustworthiness (author introduction)May 2021Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- AAMC Community Engagement Toolkits provide unvarnished community perspectives on crucial issues and their views about how our members can be better partners. The 10 Principles of Trustworthiness integrate local perspectives with established precepts of community engagement to guide health care, public health, and other organizations as they work to demonstrate they are worthy of trust. (author…May 2021Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- This 11-minute video features interviews with 30 community members from diverse areas across the United States. The interviews were recorded in the summer of 2020, at a time of great tribulation in our society. The video highlights what diverse communities across the country had to say about trust in health care, science, public health, and the COVID-19 vaccines. From those time-bound…May 2021Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- This 11-minute video provides an orientation to and a deeper understanding of the 10 Principles of Trustworthiness from the AAMC Center for Health Justice. This work is funded by a cooperative agreement from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC): Improving Clinical and Public Health Outcomes through National Partnerships to Prevent and Control Emerging and Re-Emerging Infectious…May 2021Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Appreciative Inquiry is a philosophy of relationship building and problem solving. It flips the focus from what isn’t working to what is working, and how to build on that. When the positives of a situation or relationship are highlighted, stakeholders are energized, responses are constructive, and confidence in a strategy for moving forward becomes mutual. This activity can be conducted with…May 2021Community-rooted/Participatory Research
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