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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 Racism and Racial Healing Blueprinting Workgroup is pleased to share the following Blueprint with individuals and groups in active pursuit of eliminating racial and ethnic inequities in our communities. Its contents reflect a collaborative effort on the part of individuals participating in the national PLACE MATTERS initiative. We base the frameworks and suggested approaches on our collective…July 2015Community-rooted/Participatory Research, Interventions, Racism
- On completion of this chapter, the health promotion student and practitioner will be able to: Define and discuss the concepts of health education, health promotion, and disease prevention as these relate to working with multicultural population groups. Define and discuss at least five common terms associated with working with diverse population groups, including the terms culture,…June 2015Interventions
- Health equity is achieved when all people can attain their highest level of health; it is when differences in health outcomes between groups of people are eliminated. To be effective, organizations and agencies working to advance health equity need not only consider how they are working with community residents, but also how their internal policies, practices, and priorities support or hinder…June 2015Services & Programs
- This article describes a framework and empirical evidence to support the argument that educational programs and policies are crucial public health interventions. Concepts of education and health are developed and linked, and we review a wide range of empirical studies to clarify pathways of linkage and explore implications. Basic educational expertise and skills, including fundamental knowledge,…May 2015Advocacy, Communication
- Because children are entirely dependent upon their parents and families to coordinate their dental care, CT Health funded Connecticut Voices for Children to conduct an analysis to better understand family factors that are associated with increased access to preventive dental care for kids covered by HUSKY (Medicaid).This infographic hones in on three factors that greatly increase the likelihood…April 2015Advocacy, Social/Structural Determinants
- Americans with more education live longer, healthier lives than those with fewer years of schooling. But why does education matter so much to health? The links are complex—and tied closely to income and to the skills and opportunities that people have to lead healthy lives in their communities. How are health and education linked? There are three main connections:Education can create…February 2015Early Childhood Education, High School Graduation
- On Feb. 5, 2015, Doran Schrantz, Executive Director of ISAIAH in Minnesota, discussed community organizing, political power and other topics at The Trust’s first Health Equity Learning Series event of 2014. More than 100 people attended the presentation at the History Colorado Center in Denver, and the event was also live-streamed to hundreds more at 27 remote viewing parties across the state.…February 2015Advocacy
- Advocacy is a critical population health strategy that emphasizes collective action to effect systemic change. It focuses on changing upstream factors related to the social determinants of health, and explicitly recognizes the importance of engaging in political processes to effect desired policy changes at organizational and system levels. Advocacy influences decision-making to create…January 2015Advocacy, Social/Structural Determinants
- The Migrant Health subgroup of the Campbell and Cochrane Equity Methods Group focuses on evidence based migrant health, guidelines and migrant-equity. The vision of the Migrant Health Subgroup is to use Cochrane Evidence Based Methods and Equity Methods to prioritise, and synthesis quality evidence on migrant health. Evidence based guidelines for migrants are…January 2015Migration
- Low-income children are much more likely to suffer oral health disease but are also much less likely to obtain dental care. Historically in Connecticut, a significant barrier to care for kids on HUSKY A (Healthcare for UninSured Kids and Youth), the state’s Medicaid program for low-income families, was low private dentist participation. Many providers cited low reimbursement rates and cumbersome…December 2014Advocacy
- The workshop opened with presentations from two scholars of social movements: Francesca Polletta, professor of sociology at the University of California, Irvine, and Marshall Ganz, senior lecturer at Harvard University. Polletta shared insights from her work and from the sociology literature on the formation and dynamics of social movements, and she described circumstances, structures, and…December 2014Policy and Practice
- Food insecurity has emerged as a highly prevalent risk to the growth, health, cognitive, and behavioral potential of America’s low-income children (www.feedingamerica.org). What exactly is food insecurity? The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) defines it as a household’s lack of consistent access to enough food for an active, healthy lifestyle for all household members as well as…November 2014Services & Programs
- Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), also known as Obamacare, has stimulated extensive debate over the way in which healthcare is financed, and whether or not the costs of healthcare are sustainable. Among publicly funded healthcare in the US, Medicaid and Medicare are primary sources of funding. In federal fiscal year 2012, Medicaid spending on acute health exceeded $275.4 billion, while…September 2014Policy and Practice
- Though a common target for health-improving efforts, young people are not often regarded as agents of change for healthier communities. However, a growing number of successful health-supportive policy, environment, and systems-change efforts trace their impetus to youth involvement. Not only are youth proving to be catalysts and prolific communicators in social movements, but their involvement…September 2014Social Environment
- Since 2007, the W.K. Kellogg Foundation has invested more than $20 million to support development of health equity collaboration within and across AA and NHPI communities throughout the nation. As a result of this investment – in partnership with the Asian Pacific Islander Health Forum (APIAHF) and Social Policy Research Associates (SPR) – significant learning has already been surfaced focusing…August 2014Social/Structural Determinants
- Introduction: While there has been impressive progress in creating and improving community healthcare delivery systems that support people with intellectual and developmental disabilities (IDD), there is much more that can and should be done.Methods: This paper offers a review of healthcare delivery concepts on which new models are being developed, while also establishing an historical context.…July 2014Policy and Practice
- On May 8, 2014, Manuel Pastor, PhD, a Professor of Sociology, American Studies and Ethnicity at the University of Southern California, presented on how building a social movement can help achieve health equity and how communities can be involved. His presentation included recent success stories and a list of 10 key elements to building an effective social movement, such as the need for scale, a…May 2014Social Environment
- Rising economic inequality is a growing concern for many Americans. The widening gap between those at the top and bottom of the income scale is pushing decision makers to consider policy solutions that can begin to address these inequities. Wages are often the focal point in debates about income inequality. Often overlooked, however, is a key aspect of compensation: paid leave. Lack of paid leave…April 2014Paid Family Leave
- 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…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
- On Feb. 26, 2014, Mildred Thompson, Director, PolicyLink Center for Health Equity and Place, presented PolicyLink’s plan for creating a more equitable society where everyone can participate and thrive. She discussed how reducing inequality is essential to creating health equity.The Trust encourages you to keep the health equity discussion going. Here is a summary of the book All-In Nation: An…February 2014Environment/Context
- “Health disparities” and “health equity” have become increasingly familiar terms in public health, but rarely are they defined explicitly. Ambiguity in the definitions of these terms could lead to misdirection of resources. This article discusses the need for greater clarity about the concepts of health disparities and health equity, proposes definitions, and explains the rationale based on…February 2014Services & Programs
- The health of a community, like that of an individual, depends on far more than freedom from pain or disease. Health, or its lack, for a community is the result of a large number of factors, often intertwined, that span the social, economic, political, physical, and environmental spheres. Virtually any community issue has an effect on, and is affected by, the overall health of the community as a…January 2014Social Environment, Healthy Housing
- 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
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