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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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- This summary of the literature on Housing Instability as a social determinant of health is a narrowly defined examination that is not intended to be exhaustive and may not address all dimensions of the issue. Please note: The terminology used in each summary is consistent with the respective references. For additional information on cross-cutting topics, please see the Incarceration, Poverty, and…January 2020Healthy Housing
- While the number of people experiencing unsheltered homelessness has decreased over the last ten years, the number of older adults experiencing sheltered homelessness is on the rise, as we report in Housing America’s Older Adults 2019. Incomes for the lowest-income older adults have not risen as fast as rents, leaving a growing number of older adult renters at risk for homelessness as they…November 2019Environment/Context
- As organizations increasingly replace human decision-making with algorithms, they may assume these computer programs lack our biases. But algorithms still reflect the real world, which means they can unintentionally perpetuate existing inequality. A study published Thursday in Science has found that a health care risk-prediction algorithm, a major example of tools used on more than 200 million…October 2019Policy and Practice
- Engaging and supporting youth as allies to advance community health, equity, and safety is one approach that funders and practitioners often overlook. They may discount the value of youth as full community members, doubt their readiness to contribute to productive discourse and decision making, or find it simpler to fall back on established power dynamics rather than invest in the cultivation and…July 2019Policy and Practice
- In this blog post, Dr. Kean-Seng Lim explains the "curb-cut effect," and how we can leverage group-specific health equity actions to result in improvements for others. #P4HEwebinarMarch2023May 2019
- While funders and researchers have long held that clinical trials should enroll more diverse patients to better reflect the populations in which approved drugs will eventually be used, patient populations enrolled in clinical trials remain largely homogenous. (author introduction) #P4HEwebinarJuly2022September 2018Policy and Practice
- In the wake of the waves of women speaking out about sexual harassment; gerrymandering rising to the level of a US Supreme Court case; inaction on gun control in the face of multiple mass shootings; and the riots around the removal of Civil War-era confederate monuments, there is an awareness that these events have affected the health and well-being of our communities. Public health professionals…February 2018Social/Structural Determinants, Systemic Determinants
- Last month marked a transition from one era of global health and development to the next. Seventeen Sustainable Development Goals were agreed by 193 heads of state and government at the United Nations General Assembly in New York. As with the Millennium Development Goals, health is rightly recognized as a fundamental human right and driver of development. (author introduction)October 2015Policy and Practice
- This resource addresses the key concepts of the social determinants of health in a question-and-answer format. In doing so, it defines and explains health inequities and inequalities, the social gradient, social determinants of health, drivers of health inequities, primary health care, and health equity in policy.May 2013Social/Structural Determinants
- Water can be disinfected and in this way made drinkable using the rays of the sun. "Solar water disinfection" - SODIS for short - thus offers a solution for preventing diarrhoea, one of the most common causes of death among people in developing countries. (author introduction)May 2011Communicable Disease
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