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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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  • Objectives: This report discusses six issues that affect the measurement of disparities in health between groups in a population:Selecting a reference point from which to measure disparityMeasuring disparity in absolute or in relative termsMeasuring in terms of favorable or adverse eventsMeasuring in pair-wise or in summary fashionChoosing whether to weight groups according to group sizeDeciding…
    July 2005
    Policy and Practice
  • The California Endowment is strongly committed to multicultural health approaches as a crucial aspect of fulfilling its mission to promote the health and well-being of all Californians. As The Endowment has deepened its understanding of how to best develop and implement strategies that can meet the burgeoning needs of diverse communities, it has consistently relied on evaluation as an important…
    January 2005
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing, Policy and Practice, Environmental/Community Health
  • A series of court cases litigated by the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People Legal Defense and Education Fund between 1956 and 1967 laid the foundation for elimination of overt discrimination in hospitals and professional associations.The landmark case, Simkins v Moses H. Cone Memorial Hospital (1963), challenged the use of public funds to expand segregated hospital care.…
    May 2004
    Policy and Practice, Racism
  • When I was invited to submit a paper for this issue of Phylon, I immediately knew that my topic would be “Confronting Institutionalized Racism.” That is because I have become convinced that it is only by naming racism, asking the question “How is racism operating here?” and then mobilizing with others to actually confront the system and dismantle it that we can have any significant or lasting…
    December 2003
    Systemic Determinants, Racism
  • Health grantmakers and government decisionmakers both care deeply about developing health systems that deliver high-quality services and promote the health of populations in need. While it is possible for the sectors to work separately, the mismatch between available resources and unmet needs and the complex determinants of health suggest that significant improvements will not be achieved by…
    January 2003
    Services & Programs
  • Racial discrimination occurs on many levels, in a variety of contexts, intertwined with income, education level, and other sociodemographic factors. It can be subtle or disturbingly overt. During the eight focus groups, participants were asked to talk about their own personal experiences with racism in health care. When asked whether discrimination exists in receiving quality health care, one…
    January 2003
    Policy and Practice, Racism
  • It is hard to talk about race. Discussions about race in general and racial discrimination in particular are potentially unnerving, which explains in large measure why such conversations are so few and far between. In the health care context, discussions about race and racial discrimination are particularly rare....Racial disparities in many areas of health status are well documented, disturbing…
    January 2003
    Policy and Practice, Social/Structural Determinants
  • This resource provides a guide for health professionals to follow when working with Aboriginal people, employing cross cultural understanding. #P4HEwebinarJuly2023
    February 2001
    Interventions
  • The author presents a theoretic framework for understanding racism on 3 levels: institutionalized, personally mediated, and internalized. This framework is useful for raising new hypotheses about the basis of race-associated differences in health outcomes, as well as for designing effective interventions to eliminate those differences.She then presents an allegory about a gardener with 2 flower…
    August 2000
    Social/Structural Determinants, Racism
  • Many developing countries are increasingly dependent on donor assistance to meet the equipment needs of their health care systems. However, because not all important parameters are taken into consideration, donations sometimes do not achieve their intended objectives, and could even constitute an added burden to the recipient health care system. There is therefore a need to improve the process of…
    March 2000
    Policy and Practice
  • This step-by-step guide can help you help communities improve their environments and manage their water and sanitation facilities, particularly for prevention of diarrhoeal disease. You won't need to do a lot of additional background reading, but you will need training in either the PHAST or SARAR methodology upon which this guide is based. You will also need some technical knowledge about…
    January 2000
    Illness/Disease/Injury/Wellbeing

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