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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 the United States, most mothers work during pregnancy. Yet, until the passage of the Pregnant Workers Fairness Act in 2022, pregnant employees did not have a right to reasonable accommodations to work under safe conditions. This law is expected to increase employment among pregnant women, making it critical to understand the effects of work during pregnancy on health and the potential benefits…July 2024Maternal/Child Health, Policy and Practice
- The COVID-19 pandemic demonstrated a need to strengthen the US public health system by shifting toward much greater community engagement and leadership. In November and December 2023, we conducted separate online surveys of community-based organizations and large metropolitan health departments to identify barriers and opportunities for building a public health system with strong community…June 2024Community-rooted/Participatory Research
- Republicans and Democrats responded in starkly different ways to the COVID-19 pandemic, from their attitudes in 2020 about whether the virus posed a threat to whether the pandemic ended in 2023. The consequences of COVID-19 for health equity has been a central concern in public health, and the concept of health equity has also been beset by partisan polarization. In this essay, we present and…June 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Systemic Determinants
- This website provides links and resources for the Poetry for the Public's Health section of the Health Promotion Practice journal. #P4HEwebinarMay2024May 2024Policy and Practice
- Trust is vital to public confidence in health and science, yet there is no consensus on the most useful way to conceptualize, define, measure, or intervene on trust and its related constructs (e.g., mistrust, distrust, and trustworthiness). In this review, we synthesize literature from this wide-ranging field that has conceptual roots in racism, marginalization, and other forms of oppression. We…May 2024Advocacy
- Researchers often lament that government decision-makers do not generate or use research evidence. People in government often lament that researchers are not responsive to government's needs. Yet there is increasing enthusiasm in government, research, and philanthropy sectors for developing, investing in, and sustaining government-research partnerships that focus on government's use of evidence.…April 2024Policy and Practice
- The characteristics of a neighborhood’s built environment may influence health-promoting behaviors, interactions between neighbors, and perceptions of safety. Although some research has reported on how youth in high-violence communities navigate danger, less work has investigated how these youth perceive the built environment, their desires for these spaces, and how these desires relate to their…April 2024Physical Environment
- Healthy Neighborhoods Episode 1: Leading change through the valued voices of community collaboratorsThis is part one of two episodes discussing the Healthy Neighborhoods Study, a 7-year multidisciplinary, multi-site participatory action research (PAR) project focused on neighborhood change, climate-related exposures, community resilience, and health equity in 9 low-income, racially/ethnically diverse communities in metropolitan Boston. In this episode we hear from the team leading the study…April 2024Environmental/Community Health
- In 2022, over 10% of the United States population aged 65 or older (6.5 million) lived with dementia. However, the disease burden is unequal; older adults racialized as Black experience 1.5–1.9 times higher incidence compared with older adults racialized as White and suffer steeper cognitive decline. These profound Black-White disparities in cognitive health stem from lifetime exposure to…April 2024Racism
- Child well-being refers to the overall state of a child's physical, emotional, social, and cognitive development, encompassing their health, happiness, safety, and ability to thrive. Child well-being is influenced by various factors, including family support, education, access to healthcare, and neighborhood characteristics. Neighborhood characteristics refer to a range of attributes defining the…March 2024COVID-19/Coronavirus, Environmental/Community Health
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